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IXIA maculata; var. cesta. 
Green-spotted french-grey Ixia. 
S eenaea eel 
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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . 
Nat. ord. ENSAtm. Lin. ord. nat. VI. Nobis in ann: of bot. ad eae 
TRIDEs. Jussieu gen. 57. Iripex. Brown Pine EY 
IXIA. Spathe distinctz, bivalves, uniflora, plurimim breviores 
5 = i to 
roll. Cor. hypocrateriformis, erecta; tubo angusto, cylindraceo, recto, 
fauce sepits nu 
la; Limbo regulari, 6-partito, rotato, lacinlis oblongis, raris- 
sime inferne conniventibus. er Berita limbo; fil. summo tubo bere 
modd monadelpha: anth. erectz, introrse. Stylus erectus, tubum lic re 
trajiciens; stig. 8, tubo exserta, lineari-laminata, angusta, comp ae 
canaliculata, replicata, sepissimé indivisa. Caps. membranacea, ae ai) 
globosa, 8-loc., 3-valy. loculamentis polyspermis, valvis medio septigeris; 
sem. margini intime sep 
torum utrinque annexa, globosa, Sinapeos minora; 
testa sicch membranaceh, : $ 
etl i ; 
Bulbo-tuber castaneo-carnosum, soboliferum, tunicis persistentibus Jiln 0s0- 
membranaceis aridis (rard stupaceo-retextis) concentricis tectum, ome ore 
post enixum simile floridum emoriens, ut in Croco. Folia ensata, col a 
terali-disticha, nervosa, plana, inferne equitanti-complexa, vagina radicali. 
Caulis culmaceus, spicd alternd multiflora laxé, rarissime flore solitario, 
terminatus, nunc ramosus, Soltis interioribus 2 sepius vaginatus. Inflorese. 
‘omni colore ludens. Corolla teneriuscula, limbo sesquiunctam diametro raro 
excedens, “y i 
SS a se ee 
I. maculata, 
bus ad tu 
corollz tubo capillari, limbo ex 
: bum usque distinctis, 
Ixia macula 
planato basi maculato; stigmati- 
infra antherarum bases replicatis. : 
ta. Lin. syst. veg. ed. 14, 85. Thunb. ix. 19. ejusd. prod. 10. 
Burm. prod. cap. 1. Schneevogt ic. 6. 25. Jacq. hort. schanb. 1, 9. t. 
- 19-23. Andrews’s reposit. 196, 256. Nob. in curtis’s magaz. 549, 
789, 1285.  Redouté liliac..137. | Willd, sp. pl. 1. 205. Hort. Kew. ed. 
2.1.88. ail | : 
Ixia-viridiflora, Redouté liliac. t. 4°76, 
Ixia spectabilis. Salish, prod. 33. n. 10. 
Ixia amona. Salish. prod. 35. n.12. 
Txia capitata var. ovata. Andrews’s reposit. 23. : 
Ixia capitata var. flore albo, fundo nigro. Andrews’s xeposit. 159. 
Txia spicata var, viridi-nigra. Andrews’s reposit. 29. 
Ixia maculata viridis, Usteri ann. bot. st. 5. 58. 
Ixia abbreviata. Houttuyn pfl. syst. 11. 48. t. 18. 
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Ixia, as above defined, does not comprize more than 
sixteen recorded Species, none of which have been observed 
beyond the territory of the Colony at the Cape of Good 
Hope, and the adjoining districts. The 59 Species con- 
founded under this head in the “ Enumeratio” of Vahl, 
are respectively reducible ‘to Gauaxia, Moraa, Tricno- 
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