PLATE CXCVI. 



I X I A M A C U L A T A. 



Spotted-flowered Ixia. 



CLASS IIL ORDER L 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. 

 Stamina tria, erectiufculo-patula. 



Blossom 6 petals, fpreading, equal. 

 Chives three, upright, fpreading. 



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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis enfiformibus, glabris, fcapo da- 

 plo brevioribus ; floribus alternis, fub-fpi- 

 catis ; petalis bafi obfcuris, ovatis, con- 

 cavis ; ftigmatibus bifidis. 



Ixia with fword-fhaped, fmooth leaves, half the 

 length of the flower-ftem ; flowers alter- 

 nate, rather fpiked; petals dark at the bafe, 

 egg-{haped and concave; fummits two- 

 cleft. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The two valves of tlie Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut and fpread open, with the Chives in their natural ftation. 



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



This Ixia has been long cultivated in Britain, fo fays Millar, &c. but, till within thefe few years, we 

 have not feen it in our gardens; perhaps it has been (like many others) loft to us, and recently intro- 

 duced with the multitude of other fpecies, which now decorate our green-houfes ; either from the 

 Cape of Good Hope or Holland. It is one of the moft defirable of the genus, from the length of time 

 it continues in flower; which is, at leaft a month, from the firll flowers beginning to expand. It 

 increafes by the bulb, and is to be cultivated as other common Ixias. Flowers in May or June. 



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