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Ixra Potysracuta. Liny or THE VALLEY- 
: SCENTED IXIA. 
AHS Tee 
Clafs and Order. 
| Trranprta MonoeyYNIA. 
Coneric Charadler.—Vid. Non. 566. 
Specific Characer and Synonym Se 
IXIA polyptachia tubo capillari fpatha 2—3plo longiore: la- 
cintis ligulato-oblongis complanatis regularibus, antheris 
didymo- rotundis, ge ~~ tubum difcretis fiflo- | 
 hiantibus. G. a) 
IXIA polyftachia. Facq. Ic. rar. 2. t. 275. Coll. 3. p. 269. 
Gmel. Syft. Nat. 110. Bot, Rep. 128. Des Récenf. app.40~ 
IXIA fcillaris. B. fupra N* 542. Houtt. Linn. pf. Syft. 1t« 
oe tab. 77. f- 2. tantum vero. propier florem de- — 
“cerptum feorfim delineatum. . 
IXIA retufa. Salifb. prod. hort. 35. n. 11. Mart. Mill. Did. 
Oss. Ix1z feillaris chara@erem (olim ad fpeciem | premiffam pro 
varietate recipiendam adaptatum) privius retraétatum hic de novo tra~ 
dimus; nempe, ‘** Ix1a feillaris ; Spatha tubo equali, laciniis fpatulatt 
aS ubirregulariter digeftts : laminis concavis, antheris brevibus oblongis — a 
venter deflexis, ck onesies infundibuli iformi-hiantibus antheris s fubjettis.” G. é : 
The above fpecies is here feparated from Ixta Villars. 2 
under which we had left it as a variety in our 542d article. 
Befides, in the charaéters above detailed, this further differs tbe 
from that in being a taller flenderer plant with much narrower 
grafs-like leaves, having a far fhallower lateral excifion — 
and never curled or undulate; Rachis lefs flexuofe, fewer 
flowered, flowers fragrant with their fegments regularly a 
equidiftantly difpofed ; tube proportionably longer ; tig 
more cleft and their funnel- or club-form r abfolete. 
varies with white and with paler flowers. | 
for a proportionately fmall regular fubgl 
‘dark brown covering, for their funnel-fha 
which fhould be obferved with a glafs, both ce 
branched. The flowers of our fpecimen 
“large and the ftem fimple. This flowers in : 
January or February. Our drawing was taken from 
ported bulb at the ae af | Melirs. Gaimwoop and WYKE 
Kenkeyion: “Go : ee ee 
