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MONANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Kismpferta. 



tbe biffd ligiila, deeply channelled, and from 2 to 6 or 8 inches long; 

 the lower portion sheathing, and forming something like a stem.— 

 Spike hid in the centre of the sheaths of the leaves, unilateral, being 

 imbricated on one sid?, (say the anterior,) with many, sessile, slen- 

 d(.r, 1-aiceolate, colourless, one-flowered pairs of (exterior and inte- 

 rior) scales or brades.— Flowers pretty large, expanding in succes- 

 sion, and rarely more than one at a time. — Calj/x superior, membra- 

 naceous, irregularly three-toothed. — Carol; Tube long, and slender. 

 Border double ; Exterior of three, slender, lanceolate, nearly equal. 

 Straight, pale pink-coloured segments. Inner of three unequal porti- 

 ons ; the two superior, or lateral, obovate, the colour and length of 

 the exterior three ; the lower, or lip, somewhat panduriform, much 

 broader and longer than the former, and of a much deeper colour. — 

 Filament very slender. Anther two-lobed, and crowned with an 

 emarginate, recurved helmet. — Germ three-celled, each cell contain- 

 ing many ovula, attached to the axis. Stigma large, with a semi- 

 lunate opening, which has the straight portion of its margin three- 

 toothed, and the semicircular one even. — Nectarial scales long, and 

 slender. 



5, K. ovali/olia. Roxb. 



Leaves oval. Spikes central, crest of the anthers laciniate. 

 A native of the peninsula of Malacca, and from thence sent, by 

 Major Farquahar, to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it 

 blossoms in July. It is an intermediate species, both with respect 

 ■<o size and habit, between K. Galaiiga and rotunda, and ought to 

 be placed between them in the system. 



Root tuberous, as in the other species, and about biennial. — Stems 

 very short. I may say scarcely any. — Leaves few, bifarious, patent, 

 oval, with a short acute point, smooth on both sides, about 6 inches 

 long, by 4 broad. — Spikes central, hid by the short sheaths of the 

 leaves, few flowered ; the flowers expand in succession, all pure white 

 except the purple lip .-^-Coro/ nearly as in rotunda and angustifolia, 

 the upper two segn^euts of the inner border are obtusely lanceolate. 



