PLATE XXiIil. 
IXIA CAPITATA. Jar. ovata. 
Bunch-flowering Inia. Var. Egg-/haped purple Petals, 
CLASS Il. ORDER L 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIAZ. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cororta 6 petala, patens, zqualis. Stigmata 
Bossom fix petals, fpreading equal. Summits 
3, ereétinfculo-patula. 
three, nearly upright, fpreading. 
See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV. 
’ SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia, foliis radicalibus, enfiformibus; floribus 
capitatis, confertis, purpureis, petalis bafi 
| Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and 
fword-fhaped; bloffoms in clofe bunches, 
~~ obfcuris, | purple, and dark at the bafe. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 
Se ; A flower cut open, to thew the infertion of Chives. 
a The Chives as attached to the tubular part of the bloffom, the border cut off 
. (magnified). 
4. The Shaft, Summits, and Seed-bud (magnified), 
a 
ape of Good Hope, was introduced to our colleétions about 
nurferymen; they having raifed it from feeds rece! 
‘ ; is certainly amongft the tendereft of its tribe: the root, 
| is ne Pyee to injury by wet, it thould be dried as foon as it has done flowering. It is 
aro Ixias in bloom, being in high perfection about the middle of April; is increafed 
cant ~ = = thriving beft in very fandy peat, or fand only. The figure here given was 
<n cai Plant which flowered at the nurfery, Hammerfmith, in 1798, for the firft time. 
