PLATE CXCVT.
I X I A M A C U L A T A .
Spotted-flowered Ixia.
C L A S S III. ORDER I.
TR1ANDRIA M ONOG YNI A . 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, tequalis.
S T A M I N A tria, erectiufculo-patula.
BLOSSOM 6 petals, fpreading, equal.
C H I V E S three, u p r i g h t , fpreading.
See I X I A R E F L E X A , P I . X I V . Vol. I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
I s i a foliis enfiformibus, glabris, feapo duplo
brevioribus ; floribus alternis, fub-fpicatis
; petalis bafi obfeuris, ovatis, concavis
; ßigmatibus nitidis.
Ixia w i t h fword-fhaped, fmooth leaves, half the
l e n g t h of the flower-ftem ; flowers altern
a t e , r a t h e r fpiked; petals dark at the bafe,
egg-fhaped and concave; fummits twocleft.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE P L A T E.
1. T h e two valves of t h e Empalement.
2. A Flower cut and fpread open, w i t h t h e Chives in t h e i r natural ftation.
3. T h e Pointal complete, with one of t h e Summits detached and magnified.
T H I S Ixia has been long cultivated in Britain, fo fays Millar, &c. but, till within thefe few years, we
have not feen it in our gardens; perhaps it has been (like many others) loft to us, and recently introduced
with the multitude of other fpecies, which now decorate our g r e e u - h o u f e s ; either from the
Cape of Good Hope or Holland. It is o n e of the moft deniable of the genus, from the length of time
i t continues in flower; which is, at leaft a month, from the firft flowers beginning to expand. It
incrcafes by t h e b u l b , and is t o be cultivated as o t h e r common l x i a s . Flowers in May or J u n e.