Volume 4 — PLATE CCLVI.

IXIA MACULATA. Var. minor, flore purpureo.

Spotted-flowered Ixia. Small Var. with a purple flower.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-partita, patens, æqualis. Stigmata erectiusculo-patula.

Blossom six divisions, spreading, equal. Summits three, between upright and spreading.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia foliis ensiformibus, glabris, scapo duplo brevioribus; floribus alternis, sub-spicatis, minoribus, purpureis; petalis basi obscuris, ovatis, concavis; stigmatibus bifidis.

Ixia with sword-shaped leaves, smooth, twice as short as the flower-stem; flowers alternate, rather spiked, smaller, and purple; petals dark at the base, egg-shaped, concave; summits two-cleft.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Flower cut and spread open.

3. The Seed-bud, Chives, and Summits, one summit magnified.

This variety of Ixia blossoms about June; and, like the rest of this species, continues in flower near a month. It is one of the hardiest, and certainest blowers, amongst the whole genus, and propagates freely; no particular treatment is necessary for it, but what has been often repeated for the management of these plants.