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IXI 



THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



IXI 



compressed ; stalk slender. Stiff, a foot and a half long:, naked 

 to the top, where it is terminated by a round bunch of flowers, 

 on short peduncles, of a deep yellow colour, willi a dark 

 i*in>le bottom. Native of the Cape. 



31. Ixia Deusta; Copper-coioxred Ixia. Leaves lanceolate, 

 nerved; flowers alternate, sessile; tube shorter than the 

 brictes ; borders blunt, the outer spotted at the base, and 

 keeled ; stigmas under the middle of the antherse. It flowers 

 in May. Native of the Cape. 



3-2. ' Ixia Crocata; Crocus-leaved Ixia. Leaves ensiform ; 

 flowers alternate ; tube the length of the bractes ; borders of 

 ' the corolla ovate, quite entire, hyaline at the base; stigmas 

 at the tip of the antheroe. The flowers appear in May and 

 June, they point one way, are bell-shaped, with a short orange- 

 coloured tube, with a paler hyaline or transparent mark above 

 the mouth of the tube. This is one of the handsomest of the 

 genus, and, like all the rest, becomes handsqmer and more 

 branched by cultivation. Native of the Cape. 



33. IxiaSqualida; Squalid Ixia. Leaves linear-lanceolate ; 

 flowers alternate, sessile ; tube longer than the bractes ; bor- 

 ders ovate-oblong ; stigmas below the tip of the antherce. 

 It strongly resembles the preceding, and flowers in May. 

 Native of the Cape. 



34. Ixia Lancea. Leaves ensiform, shorter ; flowers point- 

 ing one way ; scape simple, flexuose. Flowers about six, 

 purplish-white. Native of the Cape. 



35. Ixia Pentandria. Leaves ensiform, shorter; flowers 

 five-stamined. Scape branched or simple, round, flexuose, 

 smooth, a foot high ; spike of flowers long, interrupted, flex- 

 uose ; tube of the corolla greenish, short ; segments of the 

 border purple. Native of the Cape. 



36. Ixia Falcata. Leaves ensiform, reflex-sickle-shaped, 

 shorter. Bulb conical, imbricate downwards, truncated, with 

 a sharp fibrose margin, the size of a pea; flowers alternate, 

 one or more; tube of the corolla red. It varies with the 

 scape simple or branched, a hand or a span in height ; with 

 flowers alternate, or pointing one way. Native of the Cape. 



37. Ixia Excisa. Leaves ovate, shorter; flowers pointing 

 one way ; scape flexuose. Bulb globular, smooth, less than 

 a pea; scape round, upright, smooth, one-flowered or many- 

 flowered, a finger or a hand in length ; tube of the corolla 

 red. Native of the Cape. 



38. Ixia Chinesis ; Chinese Ixia. Leaves ensiform ; pa- 

 nicle dichotomous ; flowers pedunded. Scape round, fistu- 

 lous, jointed, upright, simple at bottom : the flowers are of a 

 yellow colour within, and variegated with dark-red spots, the 

 outside orange-colour. The Indians consider this plant as an 

 antidote to poisons in general, and regard the bruised root as 

 peculiarly efficacious in curing the bite of the serpent called 

 Cobra de Capello. Native of the East Indies, China, Cochin- 

 china, and Japan. 



39. Ixia Fallax. Border of the corolla incurved, and 

 spreading very much ; segments oval, slightly emarginate, 

 equal in breadth ; filamenta spreading, and recurved ; stigmas 

 as at the base of the filamenta; corolla violet-coloured. This, 

 nd the remaining species, are taken from Mr. Salisbury's 

 Catalogue of Plants in the Botanic garden at Chapel Aller- 

 lon. They are all natives of the Cape. 



40. Ixia Mutabilis. Border of the corolla reflex, salver- 

 shaped at the base ; segments broadly obovate, retuse, the 

 inner narrower; filamenta from upright spreading; stigmas 

 below the apex of the tube. Border of the corolla one, and 

 one-third longer than the tube. 



41. Ixia Socialis. Border of the corolla horizontal ; seg- 

 ments elliptical, the outer emarginate, the inner narrower, 

 blunt; filamenta from upright spreading; stigmas at the 



middle of the filamenta. Border of the corolla four-sevenths 

 longer than the tube ; corolla white, with a green base. 



42. Ixia Lincata. Border of the corolla incurved, and 

 spreading very much; segments oval, blunt, inner narrower; 

 filamenta recurved at the tip ; stigmas below the lip of the 

 filamenta. Border of the corolla one and a half longer than 

 the tube. 



43. Ixia Amoena. Border of the corolla incurved and 

 horizontal ; segments oval-lanceolate, somewhat retuse, inner 

 narrower ; filamenta from upright spreading ; stigmas at the 

 base of the filamenta. Corolla rose-purple-coloured, with a 

 deep purple base ; limb longer by half than the tube. 



44. Ixia Retusa. Border of the corolla incurved, and 

 spreading very much; segments oval, retuse, inner narrower; 

 filamenta upright; stigmas at the middle of the filamenta. 

 Limb of the corolla as long again as the tube. 



45. Ixia Spectabilis. Border of the corolla incurved and 

 horizontal; segments lanceolate, outer emarginate, inner nar- 

 rower, bluut; filamenta from upright spreading; stigmas at 

 the base of the filamenta. Flowers peduncled, and forming a 

 dense pyramidal spike; border of the corolla three times 

 longer than the tube, deeply six-parted, green or blue-green, 

 with a dark purple base. It flowers from May to August. 



46. Ixia Concolor. Border of the corolla incurved, and 

 horizontal ; segments elliptical, blunt, inner narrower ; fila- 

 menta from upright spreading ; stigmas above the middle of 

 the antherse. Limb of the corolla five times longer than the 

 tube ; corolla deep red. 



47. Ixia Conica. Border of the corolla reflex, shaped like 

 a dish at the base ; segments elliptical, blunt, inner broader; 

 filamenta upright; stigmas above the base of the anther. 

 Corolla vermilion-coloured, with a variegated star at the base ; 

 limb twice as long as the tube. 



48. Ixia Conspicua. Border of the corolla incurved and 

 horizontal ; segments elliptical, blunt, inner narrower ; fila- 

 menta from upright recurved ; stigmas at the base of the 

 filamenta. Corolla orange-coloured, with a dark base; limb 

 one-third longer than the tube. 



49. Ixia Concinna. Border of the corolla reclining, fun- 

 nel-form at the base; segments elliptical, blunt, inner nar- 

 rower ; filamenta from upright recurved ; stigmas below the 

 middle of the filamenta. Corolla pale yellow ; limb longer by 

 half than the tube. 



50. Ixia Columnaris. Border of the corolla the length of 

 the tube, reflex, salver-shaped at the base ; segments ellip- 

 tical, the inner a little wider; filamenta monadelphous ; stig- 

 mas above the base of the antheree. Limb of the corolla the 

 same length as the tube. 



51. Ixia Erosa, Margins of the nerves duplicate-ciliate : 

 base of the corolla funnel-form; segments elliptical, gnawn at 

 the tip. This sort is singular in its almost total want of a tube, 

 but in other respects has the characters of this genus. 



52. Ixia Tardiflora. Border of the corolla recurved at 

 top ; segments broadly spatulate, emarginate, the three lower 

 at the disk of the base within, putting out a little keel; stig- 

 mas at the base of the antherae. The limb of the corolla is 

 six times longer than the tube. 



53. Ixia Propinqua. Border of the corolla 'recurved and 

 spreading at top ; segments spatulate, slightly emarginate, 

 the three lower approximating a little, at the disk of the base 

 within, putting out a little keel ; stigmas at the middle of 

 the antherse. 



54. Ixia Ambigua. Border of the corolla recurved a little 

 at top.; segments rhomb-spatulate, equal in breadth, the 

 outer somewhat gibbous at bottom, emarginate, inner blunt; 

 stigmas above the middle of the antherae. Limb of the corolla 



