Part 105

IXIA POLYSTACHIA. Var. incarnata.

Many-spiked Ixia. Var. flesh-colour.

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.

SUMMITS three, nearly upright and spreading.

See IXIA REFLEXA, Pl. XIV. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia foliis linearibus; scapo spicis pluribus; corollæ laciniis subreflexis, incarnatis.

Ixia with linear leaves; flower-stem with many spikes of flowers; segments of the blossom a little bent backwards, and flesh-coloured.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Blossom spread open. 3. The Pointal natural size, with one of the Summits detached, and magnified.

This fine variety of the Many-spiked Ixia was introduced to our collections from the Cape of Good Hope, about the year 1795, with the Reflex-flowered Ixia and many others, in bulbs, communicated by J. Pringle, Esq. to Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith; where our drawing was taken in April 1799. No particular care is required, for the culture or increase of this, other, than what is required for the generality of Cape Ixias.

PLATE CXXIX.

GLORIOSA SUPERBA.

Superb Gloriosa.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

CALYX nullus.

COROLLA. Petala sex, oblongo-lanceolata, undulata, longissima, totaliter reflexa.

STAMINA. Filamenta sex, subulata, corolla breviora, recto-patula. Antheræ incumbentes.

PISTILLUM. Germen globosum. Stylus filiformis, staminibus longior, inclinatus. Stigma triplex, obtusum.

PERICARPIUM. Capsula ovalis, triloba, trilocularis, trivalvis.

SEMINA plura, globosa, baccata, duplici serie disposita.