80 .MU.N VNDRIA MONOCYNIA. (ilubbu. 



filiform. Stigma funnel-shaped, mouth ciliate. 1 have not 

 seen the fruit. 



G. G. Careyana. /?. 



Leaves ovate lanceolate, villous underneath. Racemes ter- 

 minal, compound, bulbiferous. Carol with the two seg- 

 ments of the inner border as long as the lip. Anther naked. 

 sub-orbicular. 



From Regue tlii- pretty 1 i 1 1 1 * * plant was introduced by Mr. 

 F. Cany into the Botanic garden mar Calcutta, where it 

 flowers in August. 



Ji'tmt tuberous, about biennial, perishing at one end, and 

 shooting forth at the other. This may l>e considered the 

 general habit tit' all the species. Stems numerous, oblong, 

 n> ihitk a-, a slender ratan, about eighteen inches high, and 

 invested in the sheaths of the leai i s. Leaves sessile on their 

 sheaths, alternate, bifarious, from broad-lanceolate to ovate- 

 oblong, \<ry finel) acuminate, villous underneath; about 

 six imli»s Iniiy-. I»\ two broad. Sheaths villous on the out- 

 side, scarcel) ending in any ligula,bul rising a little pn each 

 side. Racemes terminal, erect, composed of little, alternate 

 fascicles, of about three flowers each, supported on very 

 short, common pedicels; each of the lowermost of them pro- 

 duces a small, obovate bulb, ami two or three more between 

 the racemes and tin leaves. Flowers numerous, small, of a 

 deep orange colour. Braotee concave, acute, one to each 



faseiele; and a smaller coloured one to each flower; all ca- 

 ducous. Calyx superior, tubular, three-toothed, coloured. 

 Coml ; exterior border of three, nearly equal, oval lobes ; 



Interior of two linear lobes, which are as long as the lip ; 

 soon after expansion they are reflected back over the exte- 

 rior border, but become involute before the flower drops. Lip 

 a little elevated above the five segments of the exterior bor- 

 der, bifid at both ends. Filament long, incurved, &c. as in 

 the genus. Anther broad, ovate, or nearly round, with its 

 two polleniferous cells within, projecting at the sides a little 



