Limodomm. gynandria monandria. 467 



4. L. virens. Willd. iv. 123. Corom. pi. i. JST. 38. 



Bulbs imclividecl, conical. Lip of the nectary with a short 

 horn and two hiteral inflected lobes. Leaves radical, linear. 

 Scape brancliy. Petals lanceolate. 



Katou theka Marabara. Rlieed. Mai. xii. t. 25. 



Bernj. Budbari. 



Hind. Goruina. 



A native of dry, uncultivated or pasture ground, both on 

 the coast of Coromandel, and in Bengal ; flowering in the 

 cold season. 



Root, bulbs conical, surrounded with the circular marks 

 of the insertions of the old leaves, greenish, apices generally 

 above the ground, many fleshy fibres issuing- from the base. 

 Leaves radical, several, linear, slightly nerved ; nearly the 

 length of the scape, about an inch broad, smooth. Scape 

 erect, frequently branchy, from one to two feet high, round, 

 smooth, coloured with purple spots ; here and there a sheath- 

 ing, acute scale. Floicers remote, striated, of a greenish yel- 

 low. Bractes acute, short, one-flowered. Retioles nearly 

 equal, erect or ascending. Lip broader, but shorter than the 

 petals, laterally lobed ; lobes involute ; middle division or 

 lamina large, cordate, and fringed. 



5. L. ramentaceum. Roxb. 



Terrestrial, herbaceous. Leaves radical, linear, three-nerv- 

 ed, and plaited. Scape simple, few-flowered. Petals linear, 

 unilateral. Lip M'ith a short horn and sub-trilobed, ramenta- 

 ceous lamina. 



A native of Uie northern parts of Bengal ; in the Botanic 

 garden, it blossoms in March, when destitute of leaves. Soon 

 after the flower decays the- foliage appears, and continues un- 

 til November. 



Root, a cluster of regular shaped, white, solid, biennial 

 tubers. Leaves radical, rising in pairs within some common 

 sheaths from the top of the recent tubers, linear, acute, three- 

 nerved, plaited, smooth ; from twelve to eighteen inches long , 



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