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P L A T E XLVIIL
I X I A BULBIFERA. Far: flore luteo.
Bulh-hearing Ix i a . Far: yellow-flowered.
C L A S S IIL ORDER I.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pobtal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
CoiîOLLA 6-petala, patens, sequalis. Stigmata
tria, erefliiifciilo patuk.
BLOSSOM fix petals, fpreading, and equal. Summits
three, nearly upriglit, and fpreading.
See IXIA KEFLEXA, Piate X IV.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis falcatis, glabris, fcapo brevioribus,
axillis bulbiferisj floribus alternis, luteis.
Ixia with fcimitar-fliaped leaves, fmooth, and
iliorter than the flower-ftem, bearing bulbs
at their infertion into the ftalk; flowers
alternate, and yellow.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached.
3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified).
THE Angular fporting of Nature in the Ixia bulbifera is not uncommon ; its viviparous charafter (if
it maybe fo called) confl:itutes a fpecific difi^erence in many generaj Lilium, Lyfimachia, &c. partake
of it. ^ The bulbs produced from the ftem blow the fécond year, whereas thofe from feeds do not till
the third. The flowers of this variety are the firft that open, amongft the numerous fpecies yet introduced,
of this extenfive genus; tliey are of a brilliant yellow, and feldom expand more than one
at a time. The ufual treatment of other Cape Ixias is fuitable for this. The drawing was made at
Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy's, in the month of March i;g8, they having introduced it about the
year 1784,
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