Limodornm. gynandria !>ionandria. 465 



carpium clavate, M'iih six sharp ridges running' the whole 

 length. 



13. C. prcemorsvm. Willd. iv. 103. 



Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, imbricated, line- 

 ar, pruMuorse. Spikes lateral, much shorter than the leaves, 

 many-flowered. Petals equal, cuneate -oblong ; lip with erect, 

 ovate, glandular, crisped lamina. Ca/jsw/es cylindric. 



Thalia Mara vara. Rheed. Mai. xii. t. 4. 



Epidendrum praemorsum. Corom. pi. i. JV. 43. 



Found growing on trees in the forests which cover the Cir- 

 car mountains, where it blossoms during the hot season 

 chiefly. 



Root and stem as in the fonner species. Leaves remote, 

 alternate, bifarious, linear, channelled, smooth, very firm, 

 emarginate, articulated just above their sheath-like base; 

 about six inches long, and one broad. Spikes between or 

 leaf-opposed, solitary, short, straight, thick, many-flowered. 

 Brac/es small, triangular, one-flowered. Floivers surround- 

 ing every part of the spike, small, variegated with red and 

 yellow. 



LIMODORUM. Swartz. 



Coral five-petalled, spreading-; Zip with base protruded 

 into a horn ; lamina spreading. .Anthers terminal. 



I. L. plicatum. Roxb. 



Caulescent. Leaves broad, ventricose-lanceolate, cuspidate, 

 plaited, and nerved. Racemes lateral, erect, simple, many- 

 flowered. Petals sub-ensiform. Lip with a short horn, and 

 obovate, cuspidate lamina. 



Angraecum terestre primum. Rumph. Amb. vi. 112. t, 52. 



/.I. 



A native of Sumatra. Flowering time July and August. 

 Stems erect, simple, short, round, jointed. Leaves alternate, 



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