PLATE CCXL 



I X I A C O L U M N A R I S. Var. versicolor. 



Columnar -leaved Ixia. Chansealle coloured var. 



CLASS in. ORDER L 

 TRIJNDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CoROLtA 6-petala, patens, equalis. Stigmata 11 Blossom 6-petals, fpreading, equal. Summits 

 ilia, treiftiulculn-patula. II three, upright-fpreading. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia filamentis ball cohserentibus ; floribus I'lib- i^ Ixia with threads united at the bafe; flowers 

 capitatis; coroUis verficoloribus. L grow nearly in heads; blolToms change- 



I able-coloured. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Bloirom fpread open. 



3. The Seed bud, with the Chives, as they ftand upon the mouth of 



tlie blolVom; the petals being cut oft", and the fummits as they 

 appear through the tips, the whole magnified. 



4. The Threads cut open, magnified. 



.5. The Seed- bud. Shaft, and Summits, magnified. 



This molt beautiful variety, of the Columnar-chived Ixia, was introduced to us, from Holland, in 

 the year 1799- I' flowers about the beginning of June, and continues in blolfom about three weeks. 

 The beautiful manner in which the colours of the flowers, of this variety, are blended, and which 

 appear to change, as regarded from different points of view, is beyond the painter's (kill ; the beft 

 that can be done is but a faint imitation. The roots of this plant are rather more delicate tlian the 

 other varieties of this fpecies. 



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