PLATE LXXXVII. 



IXIA ARISTATA. Var. atropicrpurea 



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Ragged-Jheathed Ixia. Var, dark purple. 



CLASS IIL ORDER L 



TRUNDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CoKOLLA 6-partitn, patens, sequalis. Stigmata 

 tria, crcftiufculo-patula. 



Blossom fix divifions, fpreading, and equal. 

 Summits three, nearly upright and fpread- 



ing. 



See PI. XIV. Vol. I. Ixta reflexa. 



STECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis falcatis, glabris, amplexicaulibus; I Ixia with fcimitar-lhaped leaves, fmooth and 



fcapo fub-biflora; fpathls laceris. 





embracing the ftem; flower-ftem moftly 

 with two flowers ; Iheaths appearing torn. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 



1. The llieath. 



2. A Flower cut open. 



3. The Pointal, complete. 



This truly fi>edo«s Ixia, has at different periods long fince. been feen in our exotic colleaions; but 

 ine delicacy of Us root, andof confcquence, the difficulty of preferving it, when out of flower, was, no 



dcbfi t^rfT T 'TJ^""'''^ ^''" ^' °^^^" 1"^ *° "« ^^' « t^n^e- To the Dutch we are in- 

 fromlhe • '^^/^^'-^f "^'«n of it to this country, about four years fince, amongfl many others; 



blc of we T? K ""r" "^ ^^^" '"^^^ '' «^^^^^"^- Al^i^-gh ^^e root is pafucularly fufcep- 

 and kL!w r: 7 Tf^' *'^'"» "P '^^ ^"^'^^ ^^-^^ ^^^'^ the upper part of the plant is decayed ; 



<..nger penflnn^. Our figure wa, taken in the month of June 1799, at Clapham, from a plant 



in the Cuiuaion of G. Hibbert 



dnng. wiU gi^e it the moft vigorous"sro^Th. 



