Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 623 - Ixia erecta (Upright Ixia) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 623, Ixia erecta (Upright Ixia).

• Plate: 623
• Latin name: Ixia erecta
• Common name: Upright Ixia
• Linnaean class / order: Triandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Feb. 1, 1803
• Artist: Syd. Edwards
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 623 ]

IXIA ERECTA. UPRIGHT IXIA.

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Class and Order.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. Num. 566.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
IXIA erecta; spatba membranacea tubo filiformi breviore, laciniis patentissimis oblongo-ovalibus immaculatis, stigmatibus ufque tubum discretis, antheris filamentis longioribus. G. IXIA erecta. Berg. plant. cap. p. 5. Thunb. diff. 18. (cunftafine quoad varietates?) prod. 10. Murr. Syft. Veg. 85. Gmel. Syft. Nat. 109. Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 1. tab. 18. (vix propter figuras minores?) Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 204. IXIA polysiachia. Sp. Pl. 51. Hort. Kew. 1. 58. Marl. Mill. Dift. Bot. Rep. tab. 155. IXIA serotina. Salisb. prod. Hort. 35. n. 5. IXIA foliis lineari-gladiatis floribus alaribus et terminalibus. Mill. ic. p. 104. t. 155. f. 2. Phlol. transf. 52. 492. Obs. ORNITHOGALUM spicatum. Pluk. alm. 272. t. 310. f. 1. huc a Bergio allatum, synonymon nimis anceps, Ixiæ festilaris varietati albidæ æque respondiens.—IXIA thyrsifiora, De la Roche, hujus ex synonymis omnino ejicienda et ad ARISTEA capitatum transferenda. Bulb round, ovate, slightly compressed. Differs from IXIA maculata, No 549, only in not having the large circular stain at the base of its limb, and is perhaps scarcely to be preserved as a distinct species. Our present variety is described by both LINNÆUS and BERGIUS, by the latter with the greatest minuteness; the other varieties with which we are acquainted are green and yellow, of the first of which there is a specimen under the title of IXIA viridis in the Banksian Herbarium. The yellow is figured by JACQUIN in his Hortus Schoenbrunnensis. All scentless. Our

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