466 GYNANDRiA MONANDRIA. Limodorum. 



petioled, broad-ventricose-lanceolate, cuspidate, plaited, and 

 with as many strongly marked waves in the under side, as 

 there are plaits. Petioles sheathing, and marked with a con- 

 tinuation of the nerves of the leaves down to their insertion, 

 withering into bristly, annular stipules. Scape solitary from 

 the joints of the stems below the leaves,and about their length, 

 erect, simple, round, smooth, embraced by two or three re- 

 mote, short sheaths. Floivers several, pretty large, of a mix- 

 ture of yellow, green, and purple. Bractes solitary, one- 

 flowered, ovate-lanceolate. Petals five, sub-ensiform, spread- 

 ing ; the inner two rather narrower : greenish on the outside ; 

 yellow on the inside and dotted with much purple toward 

 the base. Lip obovate, cuspidate. Horn short and conical. 

 Column of fructification as in the genus. 



2. L. hracteatum. R. 



Terrestrial, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, linear-lanceo- 

 late, three-nerved, raceme terminal, few-flowered. Bractes 

 broad-lanceolate, large and coloured. 



Found indigenous in the Garrow hills, growing in the com- 

 mon soil with many simple, undivided, succulent, glaucous 

 stems, of two or three feet in height, completely invested in 

 the sheaths of the long, narrow leaves, which are three-nerved 

 and glaucous underneath ; each stem terminating in a short, 

 erect raceme ; of three or four large white flowers, each em- 

 braced by its very large, pure white, thin, smooth bracte. 



3. L. Tankervillia. Willd. iv. 122. 



Herbaceous. Leaves radical, lanceolar, many nerved, and 

 plaited. Scape simple, erect, many-flowered. Lip short- 

 horned ; lamina with the lateral lobes rolled in; the middle 

 one emarginate. 



A native of the hilly countries immediately north of Sil- 

 het, where it grows to be six feet high, and blossoms in April, 

 at which period this magnificent plant is particularly beau- 

 tiful. 



