TLATE CLXXVIT. 



IXIA PUNCTATA. 



Dotted flowered Ixia. 



CLASS III. ORDER I. 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla Gpartita, patens, sequalis. 

 Stigmata 3, ere6tiufculo-patula. 



Blossom 6 divifions, fpreading, equal. 

 Summits three, nearly upright, fpreading. 

 See Ixia reflexa, PL XIV. Vol I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis linearibus, fcapo vagtnantibus; fcapus 

 geniculatus, fubtriflorus ; laciniis corollx 

 obovatis, lineato-pundatis, purpureis. 



Ixia with linear leaves fheathing the ftem ; flower» 

 ftem jointed, mollly three flowered; feg- 

 ments of the blollbru inverfely egg-fliaped, 

 dotted in lines, and purple. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two valves of the fheath. 



2. A BlolToni cut open, witli the Chives attached. 



3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; a divifion of one of the fummits magnified. 



This curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert, 

 Efq. and is, we believe, in the pofleflion of no other in this kingdom. It is a tender bulb, flowering 

 about April, or May, and appears, either b}' the bulb, or feed, to be flow of increafe. The bulb, 

 from which our figure was taken, was planted in light, fandy pe.nt earth. 



