468 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Limodorum. 
and about half or three quarters of an inch broad, Scapes 
from the former year’s tubes, from six to twelve inches high, 
round, smooth, embraced by a few ensiform scales, the upper 
half supporting from six to twelve pretty large, drooping, al- 
ternate, greenish pink flowers. Pedicels larger than the germ, 
slender, recurved. Bractes like the scales of the lower part 
of the scape, but small, Pedals tive, equal, linear, spread- 
ing. Lip united to the base of the column, three-lobed, lower 
half with sides or lateral lobes incurved round the column, 
and protruded into short conic horns behind. Lamina, or 
middle lobe spreading, sub-obcordate, margins curled and of 
a deeper rose colour ; down the centre pale, and marked with 
three ramentaceous ribs, Filaments simple, from the interior 
margin of the apex of the style, just over the stigma thin; 
apex bifid. Anthers two, one on each division of the filament, 
sub-semiglobular, yellow, and of a soft, granulated, waxy 
consistence. Lid or helmet vertical, ovate, deciduous. Germ 
club-shaped, three-cornered, ribbed. Style or column, semi- 
cylindric, of the length of the lip. Stigma large, clammy ; 
pit in the inner or flat side under the apex. 
6. L. longifolium. R 
Terrestrial, Leaves from a fusiform bulb, linear, alae 
nelled, three-nerved. Scape erect, simple, few-flowered ; 
petals equal, lanceolate, Lip calcarate; lamina meade 
_ Kas. Tellungshor, 
Anative of the valleys amongst the Kasai hills; the. Senttes 
of the root spring from a slender fusiform bulb, the: leaves 1b 
number about five or six, from two to three feet long, about — 
half an inch broad, smooth and channelled ; scapes radical, 
about one third or one fourth the length of the leaves ond: 
base, only four or five large, rosy flowers. x9 wes 
{t differs from Thuberg’s figures of nifeliuin 3 in . the 
greater length and narrowness of the leaves, and three-lobed 
lamina of the lip, Like mont. sf the oe —— : 
during the cold season, 
