Volume 4 — PLATE CCL. IXIA COLUMNARIS. Var. grandiflora. Columnar-chived Ixia. Large flowered Var.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

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

Blossom six petals, spreading, equal. Summits three, upright-spreading.

See Ixia reflexa, Pl. XIV. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia filamentis basi cohærentibus; floribus subcapitatis corollis purpureo-violaceis, maximis.

Ixia with threads united at the base; flowers grow nearly headed: blossoms purple violet, very large.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two valves of the sheath.

2. An intire flower cut open in the tube only, which is extended nearly to the end of the threads.

3. The Chives cut open, magnified.

4. The Pointal complete, one of the Summits detached and magnified.

5. The Seed-vessel cut across.

We have nothing farther to fay upon this fine variety of the Columnar-chived Ixia than what has been said on the other varieties of this species; but, that it was introduced from Holland with the changeable coloured variety in 1799; and that it flowers the end of June; in which month our drawing was made, this year, at the Hammersmith Nursery.