3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits; a division of one of the summits magnified.

This curious Ixia was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1800, by G. Hibbert, Esq. and is, we believe, in the possession of no other in this kingdom. It is a tender bulb, flowering about April, or May, and appears, either by the bulb, or seed, to be slow of increase. The bulb, from which our figure was taken, was planted in light, sandy peat earth.[Pg 134]

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PLATE CLXXVIII.
FERRARIA PAVONIA.
Mexican Ferraria.

CLASS XVI. ORDER I.

MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. Threads united. Three Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER. Schreb. Gen. Plant. V. II. p. 451.

Calyx. Spathæ binæ, alternæ, carinatæ, involutæ, unifloræ.

Corolla monopetala, supera, sexpartita; laciniis oblongis, erecto-patentibus, undulato-crispatis, maculatis; tribus alternis exterioribus latioribus.