470 GYNANDRIA MONANDRiA. Liniodorum. 



broad ; apex rounded, undivided, shovel-formed, crenulate. 

 Horn scarcely any. 



Note. The plant when in flower, looks well. I have raised 

 them in my garden for some seasons, where the leaves remain 

 most part of the year. 



9. L. nutans. Corom. pi. 1. N. 40. 



Bulbs undivided, roundish, smooth; lip ovate-cordate, 

 acute. Scape longer than the oblong, five-nerved leaves. 

 Raceme nodding. 



Bela pola. Rheed. Mai. xi. t. 35. 



Malaxis nutans. Willd. iv. 93. 



It is a native of the same places with the last. Flowering 

 time the same. 



It differs only from the former in the following respects. 

 Here the bulbs are smooth, there striated. Here the leaves 

 are oval, there lanceolate. Here the scape is longer than the 

 leaves, there not half so long. Here the spike is oblong, and 

 pendulous, there globular and retrofracted. Here the flow- 

 ers stand at some distance from one another, there they are 

 crowded. Here they are of a beautiful rose colour, there 

 white. Here the lip is sharp pointed, there circular and cre- 

 nulate. 



10. L. candidum. R. 



Herbaceous. Leaves two, sub-radical, lanceolar, finely 

 nerved and plaited. Scape erect, much shorter than the 

 leaves ; raceme drooping. Lip oval, with scarcely any horn. 



Mearmee the vernacular name near Silhet, where it is in- 

 digenous ; and flowers during the hot season. Is nearly alli- 

 ed to L. recurvum. 



Root tuberous, with very thick, soft, white, spongy fibres. 

 Stem short, composed of the tubular petioles of the two leaves, 

 embraced by two or three tubular sheaths. Leaves two, lan- 

 ceolar, about five-nerved and plaited, pointed, smooth on 

 both sides; from six to twelve inches long, besides the peti- 



