466 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Limodorum, 
petioled, broad-ventricose-lanceolate, cuspidate, plaited, and 
with as many strongly marked waves in the under side, as 
there are plaits. Petioles sheathing, and marked with a con- 
tinuation of the nerves of the leaves down to their insertion, 
withering into bristly, annular stipules. Scape solitary from 
the joints of the stems below the leaves,and about their length, 
erect, simple, round, smooth, embraced by two or three re- 
mote, short sheaths. J/owers several, pretty large, of a mix- 
ture of yellow, green, and purple. Bractes solitary, one- 
flowered, oyate-lanceolate. Petals five, sub-ensiform, spread- 
ing ; the inner two rather narrower : greenish on the outside ; 
yellow on the inside and dotted with much purple toward 
the base. Lip obovate, cuspidate. Horn short and conical, 
Column of fructification as in the genus. 
2. L. bracteatum. R. 
_ Terrestrial, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, linear-lanceo- 
late, three-nerved, raceme terminal, few-flowered. Bractes 
broad-lanceolate, large and coloured. 
Found indigenous in the Garrow hills, growing in the com- 
mon soil with many simple, undivided, succulent, glaucous 
stems, of two or three feet in height, completely invested in 
the sheaths of the long, narrow leaves, which are three-nerved 
and glaucous underneath; each stém terminating in a short, 
erect raceme ; of three or lan large white flowers, each em- 
braced by Hevery: large, pure ahi thin, smooth bracte. 
3. a Tankervillia, Willd. iv. 122. 
aceous, Leaves radical, lanceolar, many nerved, and 
ne sp simple, erect, many-flowered, Lip short- 
horned ; /amina with the lateral lobes rolled in; the middle 
one emarginate, 
. Anative of the hilly countries immediately north of Sil- 
het, where it grows to be six feet high, and blossoms in April, 
at whieh ites this menaniet ei is anette par 
tiful, 
