PLATE CCXLV. 



IXIA PUSILLA. 



Dwarf blue Ixia. 



CLASS in. ORDER L 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6 partita, patens, aequalis. Stigmata Ij Blossom 6-divided, fpreading, equal. Summits 

 tria, erediuiculo-patula. ,| three, between upright and fpreading. 



' See IxiA REFLEXA, PI. XIV. Vol, I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia folii» fublinearlbus, coftatls, craffisj fcapo 

 bifloro, longitudine, foliorum, floribus dif- 

 tantibus, caeruleis. 



Ixia with nearly linear leaves, ribbed, thirk; 

 flower-ftem two-flowered, the length of » he 

 leaves; flowers grow dillaut, and are blue. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



J. The two valves of the flieath. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives in their place. 



3. The Pointal, one of the fummits detached and magnified. 



This pretty little Ixia is quite new to our gardens, never having, as far as we can learn, been feen to 

 flower before this year. It is the moft delicate in fhape and charafter of any we have as yet examined; 

 and as we could not trace it as defcribed in any author, we have given it the trivial name it here bears. 

 The figure exhibits a large fpecimen of the whole plant, which is too weak to fupport itfelf, although 

 the leaves are thick and ftiff. Our drawing was made in the month of April, from a plant in the 

 Clapham oolleftion, where only it is to be found; the roots having been fent from the Cape of Good 

 Hope in the autumn of the preceding year. It appears to flourilh with the treatment Mr. Allen has 

 given it, a dry fituation, planted in very fandy peat. From the conllruftion of the root, which has a 

 hard fmootU llcin, we Ihould be led to think its increafe will not be very abundant. 



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