PLATE L.
IXIA CAPITATA. Var: flore aurantio.
Bunch-flowering Ixia. Var: Blossom gold colour.
CLASS III. ORDER I.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
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.