PLATE CXXVIII. 



IXIA POLYSTACHIA. Far. incarnata. 



Many-fpiked Ixia. Far. flejli- colour. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. 

 Stamina tria, erectiufculo-patula. 



Blossom 6-petaIs, fpreading, equal. 

 Summits three, nearly upright and fpreading. 

 See Ixia reflexa, PI. XIV. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis linearibus; fcapo fpicis pluribus; co- 

 rolla; laciniis fubreflexis, incarnatis. 



Ixia with linear leaves; flower-ftem with many 

 fpikes of flowers; fegments of the blollbm 

 a little bent backwards, and flefli-coloured. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 



2. A Blolfom fpread open. 



3. The Pointal natural fize, with one of the Summits detached, and magnified. 



This fine variety of the Many-fpiked Ixia was introduced to our collections from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, about the year 1JQ5, with the Reflex-flowered Ixia and many others, in bulbs, communicated 

 by J. Pringle, Efq. to Melfrs Lee .and Kennedy, Hammerfmith ; where our drawing was taken in 

 April 1/99- No particular care is required, for the culture or increase of this, other, than what is 

 required for the generality of Cape Ixias. 



