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P L A T E XXIII.
I X I A C A P I T A T A . Far. ovata.
Bimch-flowering Ixia. Var. Egg-Jhaped purple Petals.
C L A S S IIL ORDER L
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
C O R O L L A 6 petala, patens, sequalis. Stigmata
3, ere6tiaiculo-patu!a.
BLOSSOM fix petals, fpreading equal. Summits
three, nearly upright, fpreading.
See Ixia reflexa, Plate XIV.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Ixia, foliis radicalibus, enfiforraibus; floribus
capitatis, confertis, purpureis, petalis bafi
obfcuris.
Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and
fword-lhaped; bloflbms in clofe bunches,
purple, and dark at the bafe.
R E F E R E N C E T O T H E PLATE.
1. The two (lieaths of the Empalement.
2. A flower cut open, to ihew the infertion of Chives.
3. The Chives as attached to the tubular part of the bloffom, the border cut oiF
(magnified).
4. The Shaft, Summits, and Seed-bud (magnified).
Tuis fine fpecies of Ixia, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was introduced to our colleaions about
the year 1/95, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, nurferymen; they having raifed it from feeds received
by them, from the Royal Gardens at Vienna; is certainly amongil the tendereft of its tribe: the root,
being extremely fubjeft to injury by wet, it ihould be dried as foon as it has done flowenng. It is
one of the earlieil Ixias in bloom, being in high perfeaion about the middle of April; is mcreafed
but ilowly by the root, thriving beft in very fandy peat, or fand only. The figure here given was
drawn from a plant which flowered at the nurfery, Hammerfmith, m 1798, for the firft tune.
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