If we regard tbe present plant as of the type tliat is to 

 determine the genus Limodorum, it is clear that in con- 

 formity with the standard now used in restricting the degrees 

 of generic affinity, many species included by Dr. Swartz as 

 congenei-s of the group, must fall to be considered as too 

 widely anomalous to i-emain together within the same generic 

 pale. Accoixlingly we find that several of the species have 

 been already removed, and formed into other genera. Among 

 these, the fine one by which the genus had been till of late 

 the most familiarly exemplified in our gardens, viz. the Li- 

 AfODORUM (now Bletia) TanJtervillice. We are not aware that 

 any species, which would be now deemed a suitable generic 

 associate for the subject of this article, has been ever intro- 

 duced into our European collections before the present speci- 

 men, which was received about four years ago through Dr. 

 Roxburgh, from the East Indies, by Sir Abraham Hume, 

 and cultivated in the hothouse at Wormleybury, a source 



from which many rare and curious v^etables have been 



liberally distributed among the gardens of this country 

 Tthe specimen which afforded om* dmwing, was sent to Mr. 

 Edwards from thence, by the direction of the owner, in 

 March last, and had bloomed at the same period the three 

 preceding years. The species was first observed by Thun- 

 berg in Japan, near the port of Nagasaki, gi'owing on hills 

 among the bushes; and is probably likewise a native of 

 China. At some points it comes near to Aerides, of which 

 a species has been given in a foregoing number of this pub- 

 lication. 



A stiff-leaved herbaceous stoloniferous perennial, about 

 three inclies high, gi-owing on the ground, not on trees as 

 many of its kindred do. Root with thick horizontal undivided 

 fibres. Leaves radical, about five, falcatelytiistich, equitant, 

 thickish, narrowly lorate, acuminate, folded into a deep 

 closish channel, of an Opaque gi*eeu colour: 6f/^w/e^ i*adical, 

 several, membranous, withered, lanceolate, sheathing. Scape 

 mdical, shorter than the leaves^ stiff, green, angular, flexuose, 

 about four-flowered. Flowers reversed, uprightly spiked, 

 but being set at small distances fi-om each other, owing to 

 their length, they afibrd rather the appeai-ance of a, cor3m3b 

 thaii a spike, white, but as they fade turning to a tawny yel- 

 low colour, about an inch and a half long, eacli with a sphace- 



*»fcely membramms - brown three-nerved folding lanceolate 



