"jlcjbha. MON'ANDRIA MONOGY.MA. 75 



heaves biiarious, sessile on their hulf stem-claspiiig sheaths, broad- 

 lancec-iale, acute, smooth above, somewhat villous aud whitish undei- 

 ueath, margins waved ; length from one to six mches, the io\ver being 

 very small, and cordate. — Sheaths half stem-clasping, smooth, with 

 semi-lunate, projecting, bearded mouths, rising above the insertion of 

 the leaves. — Spikes terminal, sessile, solitary, strobiliform, oblong. — 

 Brads': luimtrous, ovate-cordate, the lower half, or more, and some- 

 times even the whole, have each a single, small, browmsh, sessile, 

 pointed, ovate bulb in the axil ; the superior are smaller and general- 

 ly embrace a single llower each. — Floxfers slender, bright-yellow, 

 and fragrant. — Ca/yx superior, somewhat gibbous, three- toothed. — 

 Cowl one-petalled. I'ube long, and very slender. Border double ; exie- 

 rior three-parted, nearly equal, oblong, concave, and retlexed ; inner 

 of two lobes, which are longer by one third than th(jsc of the exte- 

 rior border, cuneaie, and of u deeper yellow, retiected over the ante- 

 rii<r two divisions of the outer border. Lip elevated on a continuation 

 of the tube, a little above the former, consisting of two cuneate, re- 

 flected segments, united at the middle only. The upper end conti- 

 nued into a very long, slender, incurved^ grooved filament. Anther 

 double, v. ith tw o hornsfrom each side. — Germ beneath, round, tuber- 

 cled, one-celled, ovula parietal. Sti/le slender, as long as the tube 

 of the corol and filament, and lodged in a groove therein. Stigma 

 funnel-shaped. — Pericarp ; 1 have not found it come to maturity. 

 The little bulbs found in the axills of the lower bractes of the spike, 

 readily vegetate, and thus the plant is abundantly propaguieU. 



2. G. bulbij'era. It. 



Stems bulbiferous. Leaves oh\ong. Eace/nei terminal, erect, short- 

 er than the leaves, bulbiferoas. 

 Teling. Conda pooshpoo. 

 A native of the northern Circars. 



3. G. orixensi'i. R. 



Leaves ohlon^. Prt;«V/e terminal, ^nf^er naked. Capsule verrucosc. 



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