Volume 1 — PLATE L. IXIA CAPITATA. Var: flore aurantio. Bunch-flowering Ixia. Var: Blossom gold colour.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, patens, æqualis. Stigmata tria, erectiusculo-patula.

Blossom six petals, spreading, and equal. Summits three, nearly upright, and spreading.

See Plate XIV. Ixia reflexa.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia foliis radicalibus, ensiformibus; floribus capitatis, confertis, aurantiis, petalis basi obscuris.

Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and sword-shaped; blossoms grow in a close bunch, gold coloured, and the petals dark at the base.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified).

This variety of Ixia capitata was introduced at the same time as the Ixia bulbifera, flore luteo, viz. in 1784, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, and requires the same treatment. It flowers the latter end of May, or beginning of June; propagating itself abundantly by the root, which produces annually numerous young bulbs.

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