_ Corotra 6-petala, patens, equalis, Stigmata 
Ixia foliis falcatis, glabris, {capo brevioribus, Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped leaves, {mooth, and 
axillis 
s the third. _ The flowers of this variety are the firft that open, amongft the numerous ome 
e. troduced, of this extenfive genus; they are of a brilliant yellow, and feldom expand more than i 
atatime, The ufual treatment of other Cape Ixias is fuitable for this. The drawing was ™ 
a 8 
= See 
PLATE XLVIII. 
IXIA BULBIFERA. Var: flre luteo. 
Bulb-bearing Ixia. Var: yellow-Howered. 
Crass Ul. ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Biossom fix petals, fpreading, and equal. Sum- 
mits three, nearly upright, and fpreading- 
tria, ereétiufculo patula. 
See Ixta REFLEXA, Plate XIV. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
is bulbiferis; floribus alternis, lu- fhorter than the flower-ftem, bearing bulbs 
oo. at their infertion into the ftalk; flowers 
alternate, and yellow. 
a 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 
3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 
a 
Tur fingular fporting of Nature in the Ixia bulbifera is not uncommon; its viviparous charaGter (if 
it — be fo called) conftitutes a fpecific difference in many genera; Lilium, Lyfimachia, &c- ate 
of it. The bulbs produced from the ftem blow the fecond year, whereas thofe from feeds do not t 
i {pecies yet in- 
Mefits. Lee and Kennedy’s, in the month of March 1798, they having introduced it about the 
ear 1784 
