Limodorum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 469 . 
7. L, bicolor. R. ; 
Terrestrial ; bulbs round. Leaves radical, lanceolar, rib- 
bed, plaited. Scape simple, erect, many-flowered, the three 
exterior petals, lanceolar, and green; the inner two oblong. 
Incumbent over the lip and column, Lip with a short horn, 
and three-lobed lamina, the middle one linear, oblong, point- 
ed, with-shaggry disk. 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal. In the Botanic 
garden it flowers in June. The whole height is then about 
eighteen inches, the raceme and leaves are nearly equal, the 
flowers are rather remote, large, and fragrant, with the three 
exterior petals very long, expanding and Sense green, thea in- 
ner two and the lip pure white, : 
8. L. recurvum, Willd, iv. 124. Corom. pl. 1. N.39. 
Bulbs undivided, round, Lip with a short horn, and sho- 
vel-shaped, entire, crenulate Jamina. Leaves radical, broad- 
lanceolate, five-nerved, Scapes half the length of the leaves, 
retrofracted. Spike sub-globular. 
A native of the moist valleys among the Circar hills, 
Flowering time the beginning of the rains. 
Root ; bulbs undivided, biennial, striated, nearly round, 
surrounded with one or two rings, with many thick, fleshy fi- 
bres from their lower parts. Stem, if it can be so called, from 
the side or the base of the bulb; but it is no other than the 
sheath of the three or four leaves united and enveloped in 
two or mi shree: abrupt sheaths, scarcely appearing above the 
. Leaves broad-lanceolate, five-nerved, plaited, slen- 
det,: a Tittle: waved round the margins, smooth, from six to 
twelve inches long, and three or four broad, Scape about 
six inches long, or rather less than half the length of the 
leaves, with a few sheaths surrounding it here and there. 
Spike globular; the apea looks straight to the ground, 
many-flowered. Bractes sessile, straight, lanceolate, one- 
flowered. Flowers numerous, crowded, middle sized, white, 
with a small tinge of yellow. Petals nearly equal; fp 
