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P L A T E CXXXIV.
I X I A C R O C A T A .
•maculata.
Crocus flowered Ixia. uack spotted.
C L A S S IIL ORDER L
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHAEACTEE,
COROLLA 6-petala, patens, sequalis.
STAMINA tria^ ereaiufculo-patula.
BLOSSOM 6-petaIs, Ipreadiiig, equal.
CHIVES three, upright and fpreaduig.
See IXIA REFLEXA. P]. X IV. Vol. I,
S P E C I F I C CHAEACTEE.
Ixia foliis falcatis, flaccidis; floribtis alternis, feffilibus;
petalis tribus exterioribus bafi gibbis
maculatifque.
Ixia with fcimitar-iliaped limber leaves; flowers
grow alternate and clofe to the item; the
three outer petals are gouty and fpotted at
the bafe.
EEFEEENCE TO THE PLATE.
J . The two Spaths of the Empalement.
2. The Flower cut open and expanded, with the Chives attached.
3. The Seed bud, Shaft and Summits, the Summits detached and magnified.
THIS variety of Crocus-flowered Ixia was introduced, according to the Kew Catalogue Vol I p 6o
in the year 1774, by Mr. F. Maflbn, from the Cape of Good Hope, and there, is treatexl as á diiíina
fpecies, under the name of I. deufla. From the number of drawings we pofl'efs of this tribe of plants
having nineteen diftinft varieties of this one fpecies, and in the clofe inveftigation we have given them'
in their flowering, for a number of years; having found them to fport in colour, &c. from the fame
root, but much more fo from feed; enables us decifively to place this plant as a variety to I crocafa
I t is one of the moil hardy of the Genus, and propagates itfelf by the root. Tlie flowers are produced
about May, in which month 1799, our drawing was taken, at the Hammerfmith nurfeiy- fince we
have not feen it in any collection; which leads us to think it is not a free blower, as the roots aré not
fcarce.