Volume 3 — PLATE CLXX. IXIA BULBOCODIUM. Var. flore speciosissimo. Crocus-leaved Ixia. Var. with most beautiful flower.

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

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

Blossom 6-petals, spreading, equal. Chives three, upright, spreading.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia scapo unifloro; foliis linearibus, canaliculatis, scapo æquantibus; corolla declinata, tubo brevi; stigmatibus sextuplicibus.

Ixia with one flower on the stem; leaves linear, and channelled, the length of the flower-stem; blossom declined, with a short tube; summits sextuple.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two sheaths of the Empalement.

2. A Blossom cut and spread open, with the Chives, shewn from the inside.

3. The same, shewn from the back or outside.

4. The Pointal, with the Summits, magnified.

This extremely delicate, and beautiful little Ixia, flowered, for the first time, in March this year, 1801, in the collection of G. Hibbert, Esq. Clapham Common; the bulbs having been received the preceding autumn from the Cape of Good Hope. It appears to be one of those plants, which seldom survive the second season, in this climate; and we much fear, without a fresh supply, it will be soon lost to this country; as it does not ripen its seeds, and the roots do not seem as if inclined to increase by offsets.