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tram had really met with an Ixia, or whether lie had not mistaken 

 some other plant for it. Mr. Nuttall, however, has corroborated the 

 account of Mr. Bartram, by meeting with two or three species of Ixia, 

 one of which is here figured. This circumstance lias afforded great 

 gratification to the venerable naturalist, whose plant however appears 

 to have been another species of the same genus. The figure lie has 

 given of it in his travels, besides having larger flowers, differs from this 

 in the ovate-obtuse petals, as well as in the shape and size of the an- 

 thers and filaments. When I commenced the drawing of the plant in 

 the presence of Mr. Bartram, he was of opinion that the flowering 

 plant was the same he had seen and figured. A little more attention 

 to the characters to which I attracted his attention, how ever, convinced 

 him it was a different species. Not seeing good reason to separate the 

 genus from Ixia, as Mr. Nuttall lias hinted the propriety of doing, in 

 his travels, the figure of this rare and new plant is here presented to bo- 

 tanists as a second species of the Ixia crelestina of Bartram. and I have 

 designated it by the specific appellation acuta, to distinguish it from 

 that plant, the petals of which, as has already been mentioned, are 

 very obtuse. 



The drawing represents the plant of the size of nature. 



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