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IXIA LONGltLORA, LON G-FLOWE
I X I A,
Clafs and Order*.
TRIANDRIA MONOGVNIA,
Generic Character-.
Cor. 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. Stigmata 3,
Specific Character and Synonyms.
IXIA longiflora foliis enfiformibus linearibus ftriftis, tuba
filiformi longiflimo. Ait. Kew. v. 4 . p. 5 8.
GLADIOLUS lotigiflorus caule tereti, tubo longiffimo, fpathis,
foliifque linearibus glabris. Linn. Suppl. p. 0.6. Gnel.
Syjl.Vegetab.ed.\$. M-urr. p. 8 6.
We ai"e not acquainted with a tribe of plants which ftand
ipnore in need of elucidation than thofe of this genus ; of the
vaft numbers imported from the Cape within ihefe few years.,
Vhere they are chiefly natives, and that for the moft part by
\vay of Holland, few comparatively are well afcertained; fowe
of them appear fubjeft to great variation, both in the fize and
colour of their bloffoms (whether in their wild ftate they are
thus inconftant, or whether there are feminal varieties raifed
by the perfevering induftry of the Dutch Florifts, we have not
yet had it in our power fatisfaftorily to afcertain) ; others like
the prefent one have their characters ftrongly marked, and
]efs variable; in general they are plants of eafy culture, re
quiring chiefly to be protected from the effecls of froft, the
leaft degree of which is prefemly fatal to moft of them.
The treatment recommended for the Ixia fiexuofa is apph-
cable to this and the other Cape fpecies.
According tp. the Hort. Kena. this, fpecies was introduced
by Mr. MASSON i,n the year ^774.
It flowers from April to June.
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