33 LIMODORUM VIRENS. 
Scape axillary, erect, often branchy, from one to two feet high, 
round, smooth, coloured with purple spots; here and there a 
sheathed, acute bract. 
Flowers remote, striated, greenish-yellow. 
Bracts acute, short, one-flowered. 
Petals nearly equal, erect, or ascending. 
Nectary: under lip projecting, broader, but shorter than the petals, 
laterally lobed: lobes involute: middle division large, hearted, 
fringed. 
Is a native of dry, uncultivated ground; flowers during the cold 
season. 
39. LIMODORUM RECURVUM. 
Bulbs perennial, striated, nearly round, surrounded with one or two 
rings; many thick, fleshy fibres, from their lower parts. 
Stem, {if it can be so called) from the side or base of the bulb ; but 
it is no other than the vaginated petioles of the three or four 
leaves united, and enveloped with two or three abrupt sheaths, 
scarcely appearing above the ground. 
Leaves broad-lanced, five-nerved, in substance slender, alittle waved 
round the margins, smooth, from six to twelve inches long, 
and three or four broad. 
Scape from the same part of the bulb with the stem, and even some- 
times involved in the lowermost sheath or two of the scape, 
bending to one side for a short way, then nodding ; about six 
inches long, or rather less than half the length of the leaves ; a 
few sheaths surrounding it here and there. 
Spike globular, apex looks straight to the ground; many-flowered. 
Bracts sessile, straight, lanced, one-flowered. 
Flowers numerous, crowded, white, with a small tinge of yellow. 
Petals nearly equal. 
Nectary: under lip broad: apex rounded, undivided, shovel-form, 
crenulated. 
Horn scarcely any. 
A native of moist valleys among the hills; flowering time the be- 
ginning of the rains. 
I have raised it in my garden for several years, where the leaves 
remain most part of the year. 
40. LIMODORUM NUTANS. 
It differs from the Limodorum recurvum in the following respects: 
Here the Bulbs are smooth; there striated. 
Here the Leaves are oval; there lanced. 
Here the Scape is longer than the leaves; there not half so long. 
Here the Spzke is oblong and pendulous ; there globular and rigidly 
recurved. 
Here the Flowers stand at some distance from one another; there 
they are crowded. 
Here they are a beautiful rose colour; there white. 
Here the under lip of the Nectary is sharp-pointed; there circular, 
and crenulated. 
It is a native of the same places with the last; flowering time the 
same. | 
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41. LIMODORUM APHYLLUM. 
Roots fibrous, adhering in a tuft to rocks, &c. 
Stems perennial, several, most simple, spreading, or pendulous, as 
the situation admits, naked, round, jointed at every inch, and 
at each joint small, membranaceous, annular squame, without 
the least vestige of a leaf. 
Flowers sessile, (unless the germ is called a peduncle) generally single, 
issuing from the joints of the stems. 
Nectary large, near the base, the sides incurved, so as to form (as 
it were) a tube, the exterior part expanded, margins curled, 
waved, and ciliated; it is of a pale sulphur colour. 
I brought 
it into my garden, and planted it in as dry a barren spot as I could 
find, but it lived only till the first rains fell. It flowers the begin- 
ning of the hot season. 
This is a very rare plant; a native of dry rocky hills. 
42. EPIDENDRUM TESSELLATUM. 
Roots several, simple, or branchy, thick, smooth; long, contorted, 
fibres issuing from the lower, naked part of the stem, and from 
among the lower leaves, adhering firmly to the bark of the tree. 
Stem perennial, simple, one or two feet long, as thick as the little 
finger, crooked, upper part covered with leaves, lower naked, 
withering away at the lower extremity. 
Leaves approximated, imbricated, alternate, two-faced, linear, chan- 
nelled, fleshy, smooth, very firm, extremities two-three-toothed; 
from six to nine inches long, and about one broad. 
Raceme axillary, naked, length of the leaves, flower-bearing part 
winding, few-flowered. 
Flowers from five to ten, remote, two-faced, beautifully waved and 
striated, with various shades of a greenish-yellow. 
Petals oval, spreading, equal, scolloped. z 
Nectary length of the petals, about the middle its sides approach, 
forming a tube: apex somewhat pointed. 
This is a very beautiful perennial parasite, found adhering to the 
trunks and branches of trees among the Circar mountains ; 
during the wet season. 
flowers 
43. EPIDENDRUM PRAEMORSUM. 
Thalia maravara. Rhéed. mal. 12. p.9. tab. 4. (quoted by Lin- 
nzus for Epidendrum furvum, but very different from Angre- 
cum furvum of Rumphius.) 
Root and Stem the same. 
Leaves remote, alternate, two-faced, linear, channelled, smooth, 
very firm, end-bitten, jointed just above their sheath-like base : 
about six inches long, and one broad. 
Spike before the leaf, or leaf-opposed, short, straight, thick, many- 
flowered. 
Bracts small, triangular, one-flowered. 
Flowers surround every part of the spike, small, variegated with red 
and yellow. 
This is also a parasite, and grows in similar places; flowering 
- time the same. 
