PLATE LIX. 
=. “YKIA’ FISTULOS A. 
| Hollow-leaved Ixia. 
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CLASS Il. ORDER I. 
TRLANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bossom fix petals, {preading, equal, Summits 
three, nearly upright, and fpreading. 
See Ix1a REFLEXA. Plate XIV. 
Corotra 6-petala, patens zqualis. Stigmata 
tria, erectiufculo-patula. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia foliis linearibus, fiftulofis; floribus fecundis, 
noétu fragrantes; bulbus campanulatus, 
margine acuto-fibrofo. 
Ixia with linear, hollow leaves; flowers pointing 
one way, and fragrant by night; bulb bell- 
fhaped, the margin edged with tharp fibres. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The outer {path of the Empalement. 
a 2. The inner fpath of the Empalement. 
er 3. A Flower cut open. 
A. The Pointal, and Chives. 
5. The Pointal. 
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Tus Ixia is of a very delicate nature, the root being fubjeé to rot foon after the fiower decays, if 
) not then removed from its pot, and dried; the flowers expand about four o'clock in the afternoon, 
a and are fo extremely fragrant that they are fmelt at a confiderable diftance. For this plant, our 
. gardens are indebted to the Dowager Lady De Clifford, who received the bulbs from the Cape of 
. Good Hope in the year 1794. The drawing was made from a plant, which flowered laft year at 
ae Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Hammerfmith, who had fome of them in a prefent from her ladythip. 
eae Like other Ixias, it fhould be planted in light peat, and watered but feldom; its propagation is but 
Se flow, as feldom more than one new bulb is produced, upon the decay of the old one. 
