Part 44

COROLLA 6-petala, patens, æqualis. Stigmata tria, erectiusculo-patula.

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

See Plate XIV. IXIA REFLEXA.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ixia foliis radicalibus, ensiformibus; floribus capitatis, confertis, aurantiis, petalis basi obscuris.

Ixia with leaves growing from the root, and sword-shaped; blossoms grow in a close bunch, gold coloured, and the petals dark at the base.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The two Sheaths of the Empalement. 2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 3. The Shaft, Summit, and Seed-bud, (magnified).

This variety of Ixia capitata was introduced at the same time as the Ixia bulbifera, flore luteo, viz. in 1784, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, and requires the same treatment. It flowers the latter end of May, or beginning of June; propagating itself abundantly by the root, which produces annually numerous young bulbs.

PLATE LI.

XERANTHEMUM SPECIOCISSIMUM.

Largest-flowering Everlasting Flower.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

CALYX. Communis imbricatus; squamis lanceolatis, quarum intimæ disco longiores, membranaceæ, nitidæ, radium constituentes.

COROLLA. Composita inæqualis; corollulæ hermaphroditæ plurimæ, tubulosæ in disco. Femineæ pauciores, tubulatæ, in ambitu.

Propria hermaphroditis infundibuliformis, calyce longe brevior; limbo quinquefido, patulo.

Femineis tubulosa, longitudine hermaphroditi, quinquefida, minus æqualis.

STAMINA. Hermaphroditis filamenta quinque, brevissima. Antheræ cylindracea, tubulosa, longitudine fere corollulæ.

PISTILLUM. Hermaphroditis germen breve. Stylus filiformis, staminibus longior. Stigma bifidum.

Femineis germen ut in hermaphroditis. Stylus filiformis, longitudine hermaphroditorum. Stigmata duo, oblonga reflexa.

PERICARPIUM nullum. Calyx vix mutatus.

SEMINA oblonga, coronata.

RECEPTACULUM nudum, planiusculum, punctatum.

EMPALEMENT. Common tiled; scales spear-shaped, the inner ones longer than the disk, skinny, shining, and forming the ray of the flower.

BLOSSOM. Compound, unequal; florets with chives and pointals numerous and tubular in the disk. Female florets fewer, and tubular in the circumference.

Individuals with chives and pointals funnel-shaped, much shorter than the empalement; border with five clefts, spreading.