PLATE CXXyill. 



IXIA POLYSTACHIA. Far. incamala 



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Many-fpiked Ma. Var, Jiejh-colour. 



CLASS 



III. 



ORDER 



I. 



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TRIJNDRIA MONO G YNIj4. Three Chives. One Pomtal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, sequali*?. 

 Stamina trla, ereftiufculo-patula. 



Blossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal 

 Summits three, nearly upright and fpreading. 



See IxiA REFLEXA, PL XIV. Vol. L 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis linearibus3 fcapo fpicis plurlbus; co- 

 roUae laciniis fubreflexis, incarnatis. 



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fpikes of flowers; fegraents of the bloflbrn 

 a little bent backwards, and flefli-coloured. 



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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 



1 . The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 



2. A Bloflbm fpread open. 



3. The Pointal natural fize, with one of the Summits detached, and magnified. 



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[IS fine variety of tlie Many-fpiked Ixia was introduced to our colleaions from the Cape °^,^^^ 

 Hope, about the year 1705. with the Reliex-flowered Ixia and many others, in bulbs, commoni 



Mcffrs 



Hammerfraith ; where our drawing 



799 



:red 



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