PLATE CXXXIV. 



IXIA CROCATA. 



J'ar. ni". maculata. 



Crocus flowered Ixia. var. black spotted. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 



TRIANDRIA MO NOG YN I A. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. 

 Stamina tria, ere&iufculo-patula. 



Blossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal. 

 Chives three, upright and fpreading. 



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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis falcatis, flaccidis; floribus alternis, fef- 

 filibus; petalis tribus exterioribus bafi gib- 

 bis maculatifque. 



Ixia with fcimitar-fhaped limber leaves ; flowers 

 grow alternate and clofe to the item; the 

 three outer petals are gouty and fpotted at 

 the bafe. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two Spaths of the Empalement. 



2. The Flower cut open and expanded, with the Chives attached. 



3. The Seed bud, Shaft and Summits, the Summits detached and magnified. 



This variety of Crocus -flowered Ixia was introduced, according to the Kew Catalogue, Vol. I. p. 60, 

 in the year 1/74, by Mr. F. Maflbn, from the Cape of Good Hope, and there, is treated as a diltinft 

 fpecies, under the name of I.deufta. From the number of drawings we poffefs of this tribe of plants, 

 having nineteen diftincl: varieties of this one fpecies, and in the clofe inveftigation we have given them, 

 in their flowering, for a number of years; having found them to fport in colour, &c. from the lame 

 root, but much more fo from feed ; enables us decifively to place this plant as a variety to I. crocata. 

 It is one of the moft hardy of the Genus, and propagates itfelf by the root. The flowers are produced 

 about May, in which month 1799* our drawing was taken, at the Hammerfmith nurfery; fince, we 

 have not feen it in any collection ; which leads us to think it is not a free blower, as the roots are not 

 fcarce. 



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