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PLATE lL. 
I 90 A CAPITATA. Var: flore aurantio. 
Bunchflowering Ixia. Var: Bloffom gold colour. 
CbASS HE. ORDER I. 
TRLANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bossom fix petals, {fpreading, and equal. Sum- 
mits three, nearly upright, and fpreading. 
See Plate XIV. Ix1a REFLEXA. 
culo-patula. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia foliis radicalibus, enfiformibus; floribus Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and 
capitatis, confertis, aurantiis, petalis bafi fword-fhaped; bloffoms grow in a clofe 
obfcuris. bunch, gold coloured, and the petals dark 
at the bafe. 
a 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 
3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 
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‘Tas variety of Ixia capitata was introduced at the fame time as the Ixia bulbifera, flore luteo, ee 
in 1784, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, and 
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_____ the fame treatment. It flowers the latter end of May, or beginning of June; propagating itfelf 
_ abundantly by the root, which produces annually numerous young bulbs. 
