PLATE CLXX. 
I XIA B U L B O c O D I U M. Var. flore speciosissimo, 
Crocus-leaved Ixia. — Var. with most beautiful flower. 
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GLASS HE .ORDER Tf. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Brossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal. Chives 
Corotxa 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stamina 
tria, ere@tiufculo-patula. three, upright, fpreading. 
- See Ixra REFLEXA, Pl, XIV. Vol. pe 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.: 
Ixia feapo unifloro; foliis linearibus, canalicula- Ixia with one flower on the ftem; leaves linear, 
tis, fcapo zquantibus; corolla declinata, and channelled, the length of the flower- 
tubo brevi; ftigmatibus fextuplicibus. -  ftem; bloffom declined, with a fhort tube; 
 fummits fextuple, 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The two fheaths of the Empalement. 
2. A Bloffom cut and fpread open, with the Chives, fhewn from 
the infide. 
3. The fame, fhewn from aa back or outfide. 
4. The Pointal, with the Summits, magnified. 
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Tuis extremely delicate, and beautiful little Ixia, flowered, for the firft time, in March this year, 
1801, in the colle&tion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham Common; the bulbs having been received the 
ing autumn from the Cape of Good Hope. It appears to be one of thofe plants, which feldom 
furvive the fecond feafon, in this climate; and we much fear, without a frefh fupply, it will be foon 
loft this country ; as it does not ripen its feeds, and the roots do not feem as if inclined to increafe 
by offsets, 
