Spotted-flowered Ixia. Small Var. with a purple flower.
CLASS III. ORDER I.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Corolla 6-partita, patens, æqualis. Stigmata erectiusculo-patula.
Blossom six divisions, spreading, equal. Summits three, between upright and spreading.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ixia foliis ensiformibus, glabris, scapo duplo brevioribus; floribus alternis, sub-spicatis, minoribus, purpureis; petalis basi obscuris, ovatis, concavis; stigmatibus bifidis.
Ixia with sword-shaped leaves, smooth, twice as short as the flower-stem; flowers alternate, rather spiked, smaller, and purple; petals dark at the base, egg-shaped, concave; summits two-cleft.
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