PLATE XXXV. 



IXIA CRISPIFOLIA. Far. flore caruho. 



Crifped-leaved Ixia. Blue Variety. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, sequalis. Stigmata 3, 

 erectiufculo-patula. 



Blossom fix petals, fpreading equal. Summits 

 three, nearly upright, and fpreading. 



See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis crispis; icapus ramofus, flexuofus, 

 fpithamaeus; floribus fub-umbellatis, coeru- 

 leis. 



Ixia with crifped leaves; flower-ftem branched, 

 waved, and a fpan high ; flowers grow in 

 partial umbels, and are blue. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 



2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the infertion of the Chives. 



3. A Chive (magnified). 



4. The Pointal, one of the divisions of the Summit detached, and magnified. 



This Angular fpecies of Ixia, is one among» the many given by the Dowager Lady De Clifford to 

 MetTrs. Lee and Kennedy Hammerfmith, in the year 1/94; at which time, her ladyfhip had juft 

 received the bulbs in a prefent from the Cape. It is defcribed by Thunberg, in his Difiertatio de Ixia, 

 publiflied in 1/83. The root of this plant is of a moft curious ftiape, having the appearance of being 

 the half, rather than the whole; it is very delicate, is eafily deftroyed by moifture, therefore (except 

 when in flower) fhould be kept very dry; it propagates by the root, the old one generally producing 

 two; flowering about the month of June, or July, but requires the warmth of a moderate hothoufe to 

 expand its bloffoms. Like other Cape bulbs, it fhould be planted in fandy peat. 



