Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 624 - Ixia flexuosa (Flexuose Ixia) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 624, Ixia flexuosa (Flexuose Ixia).

• Plate: 624
• Latin name: Ixia flexuosa
• Common name: Flexuose Ixia
• Flower colour: Mixed
• Linnaean class / order: Triandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 624 ]

IXIA FLEXUOSA. FLEXUOSE IXIA.

. . .

Class and Order.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. Num. 566.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
IXIA flexuosa: tubo gracili paulatim ampliato: limbo infra medium campanulato-contracto: laciniis ovali-oblongis patentibus, stigmatibus baud usque tubum discretis. G. IXIA flexuosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. 51. Mill. Dict. 8. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 58. Houtt. Linn. Pfl. Syst. 11. p. 31. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 202. IXIA polyliachia. Burm. flor. cap. prod. 1. var. maculata more Ixiæ maculatæ. IXIA erecta var. violacea. Thunb. Diff. 18. ? IXIA capitata. Bot. Rep. tab. 232. IXIA foliis linearibus, floribus spicatis fessilibus. Mill. ic. tab. 156. f. 2. cujus specimen apud Herb. Bankf. reponitur. Bulbs plano-convex or rather fomewhat depressedly flat upwards and umbilicately convex underneath. Leaves linear, ensiform, graffy, nerved, three inner ones sheathing the stem nearly to the flowers. Stem upright, gracilescently filiform, generally lax and somewhat bent, longer than the leaves, 1—3 feet high, simple or branched; branches 3—6, paniculatcly dispofed, often fubdivided, upright. Flowers 6—10, in a short oblong spike. Spathe scariole, membranous, commonly denticulate. Tube mostly shorter than the limb, which is somewhat campanulately narrowed at its bafe, segments obtuse; alternate ones rather narrower. Stigmas distinct to about the bafe of the anthers, recurved. Anthers loose, or not fqueezed together, fometimes curved and connivrent at the summit and bafe. Varies with white, white with red streaks, red and violet-coloured flowers, which are also frequently stained,

This print comes from our Curtis archive (via the Royal Horticultural Society and Wheldon & Wesley). Sold as an original historic plate - please review photos for condition.