PLATE L. 



IX I A CAP I TATA. Far: flore aurantio. 



Bunch -flowering Ixia. Far: Bloffbm gold colour. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla G-petala, patens, aqualis. Stigmata 

 tria, ere&iufculo-patula. 



Blossom fix petals, fpreading, and equal. Sum- 

 mits three, nearly upright, and fpreading. 

 See Plate XIV. Ixia reilexa. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis radicalibus, enfiformibus; floribus 

 capitatis, confertis, aurantiis, petalis ball 

 obfcuiis. 



Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and 

 fword-fliaped ; blolfoms grow in a clofe 

 bunch, gold coloured, and the petals dark 

 at the bafe. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 



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



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



This variety of Ixia capitata was introduced at the fame time as the Ixia bulbifera, flore luteo, viz. 

 in 1784, by Meffirs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, and requires 

 the fame treatment. It flowers the latter end of May, or beginning of June; propagating itfelf 

 abundantly by the root, which produces annually numerous young bulbs. 





