PLATE CCL. 



IXIA COLUMNARIS. r.. ^r.„^.>r«. 



Columiiar- chived Ixia. Large flowered Var. 



CLASS in. ORDER L 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla fex-petala, patens, sequalis' Stigmata 

 tria, erediufculo-patula. 



Blossom fix petals, fpresding, equal. Summits 

 three, upright-fpreading. 



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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia filamentis bafi cohaerentibus; floribus fiib- 

 capitatis corollis purpureo-violaceis, maxi- 

 mis. 



Ixia with threads united at the bafe; flower» 

 grow nearly headed .: blofforas purple violet, 

 very large. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two valves of the (heath. 



2. An intire flower cut open in die tube only, which is extended nearly to the end of 



the threads. 



3. The Chives cut open, magnified. 



4. Ihe Pointal complete, one of the Summits detached and magnified. 



5. The Seed-veflel cut acrofs. 



We have nothing farther to fay upon this fine variety of the Columnar-chived Ixia than what has been 

 faid on the other varieties of this fpccies; but, that it was introduced from Holland with the change- 

 able coloured variety in 1/99; and that it flowers the end of June; in which month our drawing was 

 made, this year, at the Hamraerfmith Nurfeiy. 



