PLATE Xxy. + oo 
©. IXIA “CRISPIPOLIA. Var. fore éehaaan 
ae Crifped-leaved Ixia. Blue Vi ariety. 
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ae CLASS Ti ORDER A °- ‘ 
_ WRIANDRLA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointah 
se ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
— Corotta 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata 3, Brossom {fix petals, fpreading equal. Summits 
—__ ere@tinfculo-patula. _ three, nearly upright, and fpreading. 
‘ 3 See Ixra REFLEXA, Plate XIV, 
: SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia foliis crispis; fcapus ramofus, flexuofus, | Ixia with crifped leaves; flower-ftem branched, 
__ fpithameeus; floribus fub-umbellatis, czeru- waved, and a fpan high; flowers grow in 
; : partial umbels, and are blue. 
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‘oa REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 
_ 2. A Bloffom cut open, to thew the infertion of the Chives. 
_ 8, A Chive (magnified). : 
4. The Pointal, one of the divifions of the Summit detached, and magnified. 
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fingular {pecies of Ixia, is one amongft the many given by the Dowager Lady De Clifford © 
s- Lee and Kennedy erfmith, in the year 1794; at which time, her ladyfhip had juft 
the bulbs in a prefent from the Cape. It is deferibed by Thunberg, in his Differtatio de Ixia, _ 
1783. The root of this plant is of a moft curious fhape, having the appearance of being 
rather than the whole; it is very delicate, is eafily deftroyed by moifture, therefore (except 
Sabet. ass be kept very dry; it propagates by the root, the old one generally producing 
sowering about the month of June, or July, but requires the warmth of a moderate hothoufe t 
its bloffoms, Like other Cape bulbs, it fhould be planted in fandy peat. 
