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the midtile of the antherae. Limb of the corolla five times 
longer than the tube. Colc»ir deep red. 
47. Ixia conica, or conical ixia : border of the corolla 
reflex, lhaped like a diflt at the bafe; fegments elliptical, 
blunt, inner broader; filaments upright; ftigmas above 
the bafe of the antheras. Corolla vermilion-coloured with 
a variegated ftar at the bafe; limb twice as long as the 
tube. 
48. Ixia confpicua, or bold ixia : border of the corolla 
incurved and horizontal ; fegments elliptical blunt, inner 
narrower; filaments from upright recurved ; Itigmas at 
the bafe of the filaments. Corolla orange-coloured with 
a dark bafe. Limb one-third longer than the tube. 
49. Ixia concinna, or neat ixia : border of the corolla 
reclining, funnel-form at the bafe ; fegments elliptical, 
blunt, inner narrower ; filaments from upright recurved ; 
ftigmas below the middle of the filaments. Corolla pale 
yellow ; limb longer by half than the tube. 
50. Ixia columnaris, or columnar ixia : border of the 
corolla the length of the tube, reflex, falver-fiiaped at the 
bafe; fegments elliptical, the inner a little wider; fila¬ 
ments monadelphous ; ftigmas above the bafe of the an¬ 
thers:. Limb of the corolla the fame length with the tube. 
51. Ixia erofa, or uneven ixia: margins of the nerves 
duplicate-ciliate; bafe of the corolla funnel-form; feg¬ 
ments elliptical, gnawn at the tip. This fpecies is Angu¬ 
lar in its almoft total want of a tube, but in other refpeifts 
it has the characters of this genus. 
52,. Ixia tardiflora, or flow-flowering ixia: border of 
the corolla recurved at top; fegments broadly fpatulate, 
emarginate, the three lower at the ditkof the bafe within, 
putting out a little keel ; ftigmas at the bafe of the an- 
therae. This has its name from its flowering very flowly 
in our ftoves. The limb of the corolla is fix times longer 
than the tube. 
53. Ixia propinqua, or doling ixia; border of the co¬ 
rolla, recurved, and fpreading at top ; fegments fpatulate, 
(lightly emarginate, the three lower approximating a little, 
at the difk of the bale within putting out a little keel; 
ftigmas at the middle of the antherae. 54. Ixia ambigua, 
or doubtful ixia : border of the corolla recurved a little at 
top ; fegments rhomb-fpatulate, equal in breadth; the 
outer fomewhat gibbous at bottom, emarginate, inner 
blunt; ftigmas aboye the middle of the antherae. Limb 
of the corolla three and a half longer than the tube. The 
three laft fpecies, with the crocata, fqualida, and deujia, 
are very nearly allied, and feem to be produced from a 
mixture with each other. 
Numerous as the above lift of Ixias is, there are many 
more fpecies not yet determined, befides numberlefs vari¬ 
eties. Several flowered many years fince in the Chelfea 
garden ; one purple on the outfide and white within ; an¬ 
other with white flowers, having a blue ftripe on the out¬ 
fide of each petal; a third white with yellow bottoms ; be¬ 
fides many more railed from l'eeds. More than thirty forts 
or varieties are mentioned in a catalogue of Herman’s. 
The roots of molt if not all the forts are frequently eaten 
by the inhabitants at the Cape of Good Hope. 
Propagation and Cvlture. Several of thd> ixias ripen their 
feeds here, and may be propagated that way, by fowing 
the feeds in pots, and plunging them into a moderate hot¬ 
bed, which will bring up the plants much fooner than 
when they are fawn in the full ground. When the plants 
are fit to remove, they Ihould each be fet in a l'mail pot 
filled with light earth ; and, if they are placed under a 
frame till they have taken good root, it will greatly for¬ 
ward their growth. Afterwards they may be placed in the 
open air in a Iheltered fituation, where they may remain 
till the autumn, when they muli be placed under a frame 
to fcreen them from froft. In the fpring the plants may 
be turned out of the pots, and planted in a warm border, 
where they will abide through common winters very well; 
but in fevere frofts they are often killed, unlefs they are 
covered with tan, or fome other covering ; a few therefore 
of the plants fitould be kept in pots, and (heltered under 
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a frame or in a dry ftove in winter. They multiply very 
fall by offsets; fo that, when they are once obtained, there 
will be no occafion to raife them from feeds. Mod of 
them will thus flower the enfuing feafon ; whereas thofe 
from feeds are three or four years before they flower. The 
ltalks and leaves of thefe plants decaying to the root in 
autumn, the roots in borders Ihould then be covered two 
or three inches thick with tan, to keep them from froft, 
and alfo, from mice, who are very fond of them. The 
fpring, before the roots (hoot, is the belt time to remove 
and part them ; but this Ihoilld not be done oftener than 
every third year, for when they are often parted they will 
be weak and not flower well. See Dilatris and Gla¬ 
diolus. 
IXPNA, f. in botany. See Krameria. 
IXI'ON, a king of Theffaly, fon of Phlegas, or, accord- 
ingto Hyginus, of Leontes, or, according to Diodorus, of 
Antion, by Perimela daughter of Amythaon. He mar¬ 
ried Dia, daughter of Eioneus or Deioneus, and promifed 
his father-in-law a valuable prefent for the choice he had 
made of him to be his daughter’s hulband. His unwil- 
lingnefs, however, to fulfil his promifes, obliged Deioneus 
to. have recourfe to violence to obtain it; and he ftoie 
away fome of his horfes. Ixion concealed his refentment 
under the mafk of friendfhip ; he invited his father-in- 
law to a feaft at LarilTa, the capital of his kingdom ; and, 
when Deioneus was come according to the appointment, 
he threw him into a pit, which he had previoufly filled 
with wood and burning coals. This premeditated trea¬ 
chery fo irritated the neighbouring princes, that all of 
them refufed to perform the ufual ceremony, by which a 
man was then purified of murder; and Ixion was flninneft 
and defpifed by all mankind. Jupiter had compafiion 
on him; he carried him to heaven, and introduced hiqi 
at the tables of the gods. Such a favour, which ought 
to have awakened gratitude in Ixion, ferved only-to in¬ 
flame his lull: he became enamoured of Juno, and at¬ 
tempted to feduce her. Juno was wiliing to gratify the 
paflion of Ixion, though, according to others, (lie informed 
Jupiter of the attempts which had been made upon her 
virtue. Jupiter made a cloud in the fliape of Juno, and 
carried it to the place where Ixion had appointed to meet 
Juno. Ixion was caught in the fnare, and from his em¬ 
brace with the cloud he had the Centaurs, or, according 
toothers, Centaurus. See Centauri. Jupiter now ba- 
niflied Ixion from heaven ; (truck him with his thunder, 
and ordered Mercury to tie him to a wheel in hell, which 
continually whirls round; therefore the punifhment of 
Ixion was eternal. 
IXION'IDES, the patronymic of Pirithous fon of Ixion. 
IX'O, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : fixty- 
five miles eaft-north-eaft of Meaco. 
IXO'RA, f [fo named from a Malabar idol.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs tetrandria, order monogynia, na¬ 
tural order of ftellatce, (rubiacea:, juff.) The generic cha- 
radters are—Calyx: perianthium four-parted, very (mall, 
upright, permanent. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel-form; 
tube cylindric, very long, llender ; border four-parted, 
flat; divifions ovate. Stamina : filaments four, above the 
mouth of the corolla, very (hort; antherae oblong. Pif- 
tillum : germ roundifli, inferior; ftyle filiform, the length 
of the tube; ftigma two-cleft. Pericarpium : berry round¬ 
ifli, two-celled. Seeds: by fours, convex on one fide, 
cornered on the other .—EJfential CharaEler. Corolla one- 
petalled, funnel-form, long, fuperior; (lamina above the 
mouth ; berry four-feeded. 
Species. 1 . Ixora coccinea, or fcarlet ixora : leaves oval, 
half-ftem-.clalping ; flowers in bundles. Stem woody, five 
or fix feet high, lending out many (lender branches co¬ 
vered with a brown bark. Leaves oppofite, or three or 
four at a joint. Flowers terminating in cluftCl’s ; they have 
very long llender tubes, are cut into four ovate fegments, 
and are of a deep red colour. Gartner delcribes the berry 
as flelhy, ovate-globular, crowned with the four upright 
acuminate teeth of the calyx, black, two-celled; cells, 
clothed 
