the ftem, ofien fubdivided with leafy bra@es at their bafes. 
Flowers 4—g, bypocrateriform, upright. Spathes very fhort, © 
outer, valve .ovate, blunt, convolute, brownifh livid green; — 
tube and faux narrow-turbinate, feveral times longer than the 
fpathe and fomewhat exceeding the limb, the fegments of which — 
are rather irregularly difpofed and cuneate-{patulate. Anthers 
above the mouth. of the faux, fubparallel, accumbent, nearly © 
the length of the ftigmas. Capfule ovate- round, rough with — 
fmall thickfet gancn ay og een ee ad Seeds like thofe of 
mutftard. 
This was the plant we had in view when, in the article of | 
Ixra fcillaris, we faid the leaves of that f{pecies refembled | 
thofe of Ixra excifa. Tuunsere defcribes the flowers. as 
cefulefcent, Linn zus the younger as violet-coloured, both » 
which appearances they afflume in a dried ftate, the more eX- 
panded flowers inclining to violet, the lefs expanded ones to | 
blue; the latter feems to have ranked fpecimens of the fame | 
{pecies under two very diftin@ ones, and to have made. this a 
variety, of Ixia excifa as well as a different fpecies under the 
name of GLADIOLUS Junceus. a 
Found by Tuunserc at the Cape of Good Hope, ia 
Langekloof. Propagates abundantly both by feed and ae 
_ continues long in bloom. Scentlefs. _ Flowers. in May, | 
now very common. , 
Our drawing was made from a plant in the ie 
Meffis. Grimwoop, and Wykzs, at Kenfington, who_ have | 
been long in petefliony of it, having received it by the Hey of | 
Holland. oa ee 
