The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 09 [of 10]

Volume 9 — PLATE DLXIV. IXIA CURTA. Short Ixia.

Reading edition

CLASS III. ORDER I.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

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

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia foliis falcatis: floribus alternis, tri-coloribus: caule humili.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Ixia with scimitar-shaped leaves: flowers alternate, and three-coloured. Stem low.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two sheaths of the empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

This new species of Ixia was delineated from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, esq. the summer before last, and although low in stature is certainly high in beauty, and surpassed by very few of loftier growth. It flowers about the middle of April, and requires the same treatment as most other Cape species.

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