: a PLATE CCIII. 
IXIA COLUMNARIS. 
Columnar-chived Ixia. 
CLASS IIL. ORDER I. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotra 6-petala, patens, zequalis. | Brossom 6 petals, fpreading, eqial. 
Srigmara tria, ereCtiufculo-patula. Summits three, upright-fpreading. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ixia filamentis bafi coherentibus 3 floribus capi- | Ixia with threads united at the bafe; flowers 
-tatis; corollis purpureis. grow in heads; bloffoms purple. 
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REFERENCE £0 TRE PLATE, 
1. The two Valves of the empalement. 
2. A Bloffom cut open. ‘ 
3. The Chives and Pointal, with the tube of the bloffom, the border cut off. 
4, The Chives cut and {pread open, with the tube of the bloffom, magnified. 
5. The Pointal and Seed-bud, with one of the Summits detached and magnified. 
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Here we have a plant which prefents one of thofe obftacles, 
matic arrangement of the produ@tions of nature. 
but in the unison of the Threads F 
fuch fingular moment, that a numb 
hinging on this only charaéter. 
But, as this plant has been named, and 
to his garden 36, n. 18; and continued, fro 
article Ixia, 50; in the following 
proper, not to make any alteratio 
The extreme brilliance of the flo 
conftantly met, in all attempts to a fyfte- 
Every feature of Ixia we find pofitively expreffed, 
a circumftance, which Linneus in his fyftem, always deemed of 
er of Genera have been formed, from this natural order of plants, 
not exceeded by any in the whole Genus; they generally, are not longer ex- 
only under a hot fun; from about eight, till twelve o'clock; 
elefs they have a permanence not ufual in Ixias, as the fame 
is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and came 
» about the year 1794. It flowers in June and July, amongft 
and increafes by the root in abundance. Our figure was taken at the Hammer- 
firft to England, by the way of Holland 
the lateft of the tribe, 
fmith Nurfery. © — 
