: PLATE XXIX. : 
IXIA SPICATA. Par. viridi migra. 
| Sea-green fpiked Ixia. 
CLASS Il ORDER IL. 
' TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIZA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cororra 6 petala, patens, xqualis. 
Bossom fix petals, fpreading, equal. 
Sticmata 3, erectiufculo-patula. 
Summits three, nearly upright, fpreading. 
See Ix1a rnervexa, Plate XIV. 
‘ SPECIFIC CHARACTER. , 
Ixia foliis linearibus, coftatis; corolla viridi, Ixia with linear, ribbed leaves; green bloffom, 
petalis bafi obfcuris; fpicis longiffimis. the bafe of the petals dark; {pikes very 
long. 
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*: REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 
2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew its tubular charaéter, and the infertion of the Chives at the 
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mouth. 
3. The Pointal complete, one of its Summits magnified, 
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Tae fingularity of colour exhibited in this very fine fpecies of Ixia, the extraordinary length of the 
Be -fpikes, the flowers of which are moftly all expanded at the fame time; and which grow fometimes 
to the length of a foot, or more; will certainly entitle it to a place in every colleétion of exotics. 
We are indebted to the Hollanders for this plant, as they firft introduced it from the Cape; and it 1s 
Hess a them we received it but a few years fince. It is amongft the hardieft, and eafieft propagated of 
oS genus; requiring a {mall degree of heat when near blowing, to make the flowers expand with 
__luftre; thriving beft in peat earth; propagating itfelf by the bulb; and flowering during the months 
_ of May and June. 
