eel 
a 
Limodorum, GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA,. 465 
carpium clavate, with six sharp ridges running the whole 
length. . 
13, C. premorsum. Willd. iv. 103. 
Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, imbricated, line- 
ar, preemorse, Spikes lateral, much shorter than the leaves, 
many-flowered. Petals equal, cuneate-oblong ; lip with erect, 
ovate, glandular, crisped lamina. Capsules cylindric. 
Thalia Maravara. Rheed, Mal. xii, t. 4. 
Epidendrum premorsum. Corom. pl. i. N. 43: 
Found growing on trees in the forests which cover the Cir- 
car mountains, where it blossoms during the hot season 
chiefly. . 
Root and stem as in the former species. Leaves remote, 
alternate, bifarious, linear, channelled, smooth, very firm, 
emarginate, articulated just above their sheath-like base ; 
about six inches long, and one broad. Spikes between or 
leaf-opposed, solitary, short, straight, thick, many-flowered. 
Bractes small, triangular, one-flowered. Flowers surround- 
ing every part of the spike, small, eis patie with red and 
yellow. | 
LIMODORUM. Swariz. 
Corol five-petalled, spreading; lip with base proteath 
intoa horn ; lamina spreading. Anthers terminal. 
1. L. plicatum. Roxb. 
~ Caulescent, Leaves broad, ventricose-lanceolate, cuspidate, 
plaited, and nerved. Racemes lateral, erect, simple, many- 
flowered. Petals sub-ensiform. Lip with a short horn, and 
obovate, cuspidate lamina. 
wren tuaeas terestre nents Rumph, Amb, vi. 112, t. 52. 
A | 
" A native af Sumatra. Flowiing time July and ianenes 
Stems erect, simple, short, round, jointed] Leaves alternate, 
VOL, Ul. eo . 
