

PLATE CLXX. 



IXIA BULBOCODIUJNI. Var.Jlore sj,eciosissimo. 

 Crocus-leaved Ixio. Var. u-lth most leautiful flower. 



CLASS IIL ORDER L 



TRIJNDRU MONOGYNU. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. Stamina 

 tria, ereaiulculo-patula. 



Blossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal. Chives 

 three, upright, fpreading. 



See IxiA KEFLEXA, PI. XIV. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia fcapo unifloro; foliis linearibus, canalicula- 

 tis, fcapo cequantibus ; corolla declinata, 

 tubo brevi; ftigmatibus fextuplicibus. 



Ixia with one flower on the ftem; leaves linear, 

 and channelled, the length of the flower- 

 flem; bloflbm declined, with a fliort tube- 

 fummits fextuple. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The two flieaths of the Empalement. 



2. A Bloffom cut and fpread open, with the Chives, fhewn from 



the infide. 



3. The fame, fliewn from the back or outfide. 



4. The Pointal, with the Summits, magnified. 



This extremely delicate, and beautiful little Ixia, flowered, for the firft time, in March this year, 

 1801, in the colleftion of G. Hibbert, Elq. Clapham Common; the bulbs having been received the 

 preceding autumn from the Cape of Good Hope. It appears to be one of thofe plants, which feldom 

 furvive the fecond feafon, in this climate; and we much fear, without a frefh fupply, it will be foon 

 loft to this country ; as it does not ripen its feeds, and the roots do not feem as if inclined to increafe 

 by oifsets. 



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