gibbofis j ftaminibus corolla fubtriplo brevioribus, trifariis, 

 ereclo-fafciculatis ; filamentls triquetro-fubulatis ; ftigmati- 

 bus prope antherarum apices recurvatis. G. 



SPAR AX IS tricolor. Nobis in Ann.ofBot. i. 225. Supra No. 779. 

 <v erf folio in Spec. Enum. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 85. 



IXIA tricolor. Supra No. 381. Schneevogi et Geuns k. 39. LiL 

 a Redout^ tab. 129. Vahl Enum. 2. 74. n. 12. Willd. Enum. 

 Hort Bat. Berol. 57. 



(«.) floris laciniarum lamina aurantiaco-llava. Supra No. 381. 



(3.) eadem fanguineo-purpurea,vanegationedilutiore. No. 1482, 



(y.) eadem violaceo-purpurea. No. 1 482. 



(I) eadem fubroleo-albida. No. 1482. 



Differs from its congeners, in having upright ftamens that 

 Converge trifarioufly, as well as by a ftriate wrinkled fpathe. 

 The three varieties now publifhed, have been lately imported 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. Griffin, in whofe 

 very feleQ. collection at South-Lambeth we faw them in bloom 

 together in April laft. None of them are noticed in any work 

 we have confulted. The white-flowered one feems to approach 

 nearer to the grandiflora of No. 779 than the others do. 



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For the enumeration of the fpecies of this genus fee the 

 other fide of the leaf in No. 779. Since the publifhing or 

 which, we have fatisfied ourfelvcs, by the infpe&ion of a well- 

 preferved fpontaneous fpecimen, that the Ixia pendula (fee above t 

 No. 1013, in Spec. Enum.) belongs to Spar axis, and not to 

 Ixia. We do not believe that this plant has ever made its ap- 

 pearance in any European garden, although one of the mod orna- 

 mental of its order. Found by Thunberg, growing in wet 

 places near Krumrivier, at the Cape of Good Hope; fome- 

 times attaining the height of fix feet. G. 



