468 GYNANDRiA MONANDRiA. Limodoriim. 



and about half or three quarters of an inch broad. Scapes 

 from the former year's tubes, from six to twelve inches high, 

 round, smooth, embraced by a few ensiform scales, the upper 

 half supporting from six to twelve pretty large, drooping, al-. 

 ternate, greenish pink flowers. Pedicels larger than the germ, 

 slender, recurved. Bractes like the scales of the lower part 

 of the scape, but small. Petals live, equal, linear, spread- 

 ing. Lip united to the base of the column, three-lobed, lower 

 half with sides or lateral lobes incurved round the column, 

 and protruded into short conic horns behind. Lamina, or 

 middle lobe spreading, sub-obcordate, margins curled and of 

 a deeper rose colour ; down the centre pale, and marked with 

 three ramentaceous ribs. Filaments simple, from the interior 

 margin of the apex of the style, just over the stigma thin; 

 apex bifid. Anthers two, one on each division of the filament, 

 sub-semiglobular, yellow, and of a soft, granulated, waxy 

 consistence. Lid or helmet vertical, ovate, deciduous. Germ 

 club-shaped, three-cornered, ribbed. Style or column, semi- 

 cylindric, of the length of the lip. Stigma large, clammy ; 

 pit in the inner or flat side under the apex. 



6. L. longifolium. R. 



Terrestrial. Leaves from a fusiform bulb, linear, chan- 

 nelled, three-nerved. Scape erect, simple, few-flowered; 

 petals equal, lanceolate. Lip calcarate; lamina three-lobed. 



Kas. Tellungshor. 



A native of the valleys amongst the Kasai hills; the fissures 

 of the root spring from a slender fusiform bulb, the leaves in 

 number about five or six, from two to three feet long, about 

 half an inch broad, smooth and channelled ; scapes radical, 

 about one third or one fourth the length of the leaves and 

 base, only four or five large, rosy flowers. 



It differs from Thuberg's figures of ensifolium in the 

 greater length and narrowness of the leaves, and three-lobed 

 lamina of the lip. Like most of the Orchideas, it blossoms 

 during the cold season. 



