PLATE . CLY. 
TA EA POLY STACHTA. 
Many-/piked Ixia. 
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CLASS If. ORDER Ek. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIZ. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotxra 6-partita, patens, equalis. Stigmata Brossom 6-divifions, fpreading, equal. Summits 
3, ere&tiufculo-patula. three, nearly upright and fpreading, : 
See Ixra ReEFLExa, Vol, I. Plate XIV. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia with linear leaves ; flower-ftem with many 
{pikes ; flowers grow oppofite and fpiked ; 
bloffoms white. 
Ixia foliis linearibus; {capo fpicis pluribus; flo- 
ribus oppofitis, fpicatis ; corollis albidis, | 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 
2. A flower cut open to thew the fituation of the Chives, 
3. The Pointal natural fize. 
IE Beer 
Tas is the plant which is figured by Miller, in the coloured plates which correfpond with the diGtionary, 
104, t. 155. fig. 2, under the {pecific title it here bears 3 and, faysthe Kew Ca 
_ by him 1757. Since this is the firft which bore the ti 
think is moftly primitive in flowers, we have given it the preference ; and fhall confider all the other 
18, (of which we haye drawings and decidedly of this {pecies) as varieties from this. The flowers of © 
