PLATE CCLVL 



IXIA MACULATA. ^r;":;;/"^' 



Spotted-flowered Ixia. Smaiivar. wUhapurph 



1 ^ jlower. 



CLASS m. ORDER L 

 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-partita, patens, aequalis. Stigmata I Blossom fix divifions, fpreading, equal. Sum- 

 tria, ere6liufculo-patu]a. || mits three, between upright and fpreading. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixia foliis enfiformibus, glabrls, fcapo duplo 

 brevioribus; floribus alternis, fub-fpicatis, 

 minoribus, purpureis; petalis bafi obfcuris, 

 ovatis, concavisj ftigraatibus bifidis. 



Ixia with fword (liaped leaves, fmooth, twice as 

 (hort as the flower- ftem; flowers alternate, 

 rather fpiked, fnialler, and purple; petals 

 dark at the bafe, egg-tLaped, concave; 

 fummits two-cleft. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut and fpread open. 



3. The Seed-bud, Chives, and Summits, one fummit magnified. 



This variety of Ixia bloffoms about June; and, like the reft of this fpecies, continues in flower near a 

 month. It is one of the hardieft, and certaineft blowers, amongst the whole genus, and propagates 

 freely; no particular tieatment is necelfary for it, but what has been often repeated for the manage- 

 ment of thefe plants. 



