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LlMODORUM FALCATUM. FRAGRANT 

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Class and Order. 

 Gynandria Monandria. 



Generic Character. 



Petala 5, subpatentia. Labellum basi antice in cornu 

 liberum productum. Anthera terminalis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Limodorum falcatum ; foliis subradicalibus ensiformi-eanali- 

 culatis falcatis, scapis paucifloris, cornu filiformi longis- 

 simo. Swartz in Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6. p. rj. tt ii( I. 

 Sp. PI. 4. p. 126. Persoon Syn. p. 520. n. 10. hot. 

 Reg. 283. Thunb. Ic. PL Jap. L 6. 



Orchis falcata. Thunb. Jap. p. 26. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 

 811. 



This pretty little plant is also very fragrant. It is a native 

 of Japan, where, according to Thunbekg, it grows on the 

 mountains among shrubs ; but as this traveller had no oppor- 

 tunity of gathering the plants from their place of growth, it must 

 be uncertain whether it grew on the earth, on rocks, or parasiti- 

 cally on trees ; by the manner in which it puts forth its roots, if 

 they can be so called, we should judge that its natural situa- 

 tion was not on the soil. Our plant was cultivated in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society as an air plant, being sus- 

 pended from the roof of the stove in a basket with only a 

 little moss in it; and was communicated by the society's gar- 

 dener, Mr. Charles Strachan, in May last. 



It was first cultivated in England by Sir Abraham Hume, 

 at Wormleybury, who received the plant from the East Indies, 

 through the late Dr. Roxburgh. 



