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Limodorum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 467 
4. L., virens, Willd. iv. 123. Corom. pl. i. N. 38. 
Bulbs undivided, conical. Lip of the nectary with a short 
horn and two lateral inflected lobes. Leaves radical, linear. 
Seape branchy. Petals lanceolate. 
Katou theka Marabara. Rheed, Mal. xii. t. 25. 
Beng. Budbari. 
Hind. Goruma, 
A native of dry, uncultivated or pasture ground, both on 
the coast of Coromandel, and in Bengal; flowering in the 
cold season. 
Root, bulbs conical, surrounded with the circular marks 
of the insertions of the old leaves, greenish, apices generally 
above the ground, many fleshy fibres issuing from the base. 
Leaves radical, several, linear, slightly nerved ; nearly the 
length of the scape, about an inch broad, smooth, Scape’ 
erect, frequently branchy, from one to two feet high, round, 
smooth, coloured with purple spots ; here and there a sheath- 
ing, acute scale. Flowers remote, striated, of a greenish yel- 
low. .Bractes acute, short, one-flowered. Petioles nearly 
equal, erect or ascending. Lip broader, but shorter than the 
petals, laterally lobed ; lobes involute; middle division or 
lamina large, cordate, and fringed, 
5. L. ramentaceum. Roxb. 
Terrestrial, herbaceous. Leaves radical, linear, three-nerv- 
ed, and plaited. Scape simple, few-flowered. Petals linear, 
unilateral. Lip with a short horn and sub-trilobed, ramenta- 
ceous lamina, 
A native of the northern parts of Bengal; in the Botanic 
_ garden, it blossoms in March, when destitute af leaves, Soon 
after the flower decays the foliage appears, and continues un- 
til November, 
Root, a cluster of regular shaped, white, solid, biennial 
tubers. Leaves radical, rising in pairs within some common 
sheaths from the top of the recent tubers, linear, acute, three- 
nerved, plaited, smooth ; from twelve to eighteen inches long, 
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