

PLATE XLVIII. 



IXIA BULBIFERA. Van florc luteo. 

 Bulb-bearing Ixia. Van yellow -flowered. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 





Corolla 6-petala, patens, requalis. Stigmata 

 tria, erediufculo patula. 



Blossom fix petals, fpreading, and equal. Sum- 

 mits three, nearly upright, and Spreading. 

 See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis falcatis, glabris, fcapo brevioribus, 

 axillis bulbiferis; floribus alternis, lu- 

 teis. 



Ixia with fcimitar-fhnped leaves, fmooth, and 

 Ihorter than the flower-ftem, bearing bulbs 

 at their infertion into the ftalk; flowers 

 alternate, and yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 



3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified). 



The fingular fporting of Nature in the Ixia bulbifera is not uncommon; its viviparous character (if 

 it maybe fo called) conftitutes a fpecific difference in many genera; Lilium, Lyfimachia, &c. partake 

 of it. The bulbs produced from the ftem blow the fecond year, whereas thofe from feeds do not till 

 the third. The flowers of this variety are the firft that open, amongft the numerous fpecies yet in- 

 troduced, of this extenfive genus ; they are of a brilliant yellow, and feldom expand more than one 

 at a time. The ufual treatment of other Cape Ixias is fuitable for this. The drawing was made at 

 MelTrs. Lee and Kennedy's, in the month of March i/9S> trie y having introduced it about the 

 year 1784. 



