PLATE CLXXVII. 
IXIA PUNCTATA. 
Dotted flowered Ixia: 
CLASS fll. ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Corotxa 6-partita, patens, zqualis, | 
Stiemara 3, erectiufculo-patula, 
| 
Brossom 6 divifions, fpreading, equal. 
Summits three, nearly upright, f{preading. 
See Ixia reflexa, Pl, XIV. Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia foliis linearibus, feapo vaginantibus; feapus | Ixia with linear leaves fheathing the ftem; flower-_ 
geniculatus, fubtriflorus; laciniis corolla ftem jointed, moftly three flowered; feg- 
‘obovatis, lineato-pundtatis, purpureis. ments of the bloffom inverfely egg-fhaped, 
dotted in lines, and purple. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1, The two valves of the fheath. 
2. A Bloffom cut open, with the Chives attached. 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits 3 a divifion of one of the fummits magnified. 
_ Tuts curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert, 
_ -Efq. and is, we believe, in the poffeffion of no other in this kingdom. It is a tender bulb, flowering 
about April, or May, and appears, either by the bulb, or feed, to be flow of increafe, The bulb, 
from whieh our figure was taken, was planted in light, fandy peat earth. 
