[Pate 81.] 
THE ROSY LIMATODE. 
(LIMATODES ROSEA.) 
A most beautiful Terrestrial Hothouse ORCHID from the East INDIES. 
Specific Character. 
THE ROSY LIMATODE. Pseudobulbs fusiform. Leaves | LIMATODES ROSEA ; pseudobulbis fusiformibus, foliis 
oblong-lanceolate, plaited, smooth. Scape many-flowered, oblongo-lanceolatis plicatis glabris, seapo multifloro foliis 
longer than the leaves, shaggy, as well as the loosely longiore floribusque laxis villosis, bracteis membranaceis 
placed flowers. Bracts membranous, curved backwards, recurvis ovario brevioribus, labello oblongo plano retuso, 
shorter than the ovary. Lip oblong, flat, retuse. Spur calcare recto obtuso horizontali, columná naná tomentosá. 
straight, blunt, horizontal. Column dwarf, downy. 
HE genus Limatodes has hitherto been known to the public exclusively by a figure in the plates 
belonging to Blume's Bijdragen, and the scanty accompanying letter-press. The species there 
mentioned, L. pauciflora, a native of dense woods on Mount Salak in Java, is described as a fibrous- 
rooted terrestrial plant, having stems swollen at the base, broadly lanceolate membranous ribbed 
leaves, lateral solitary few-flowered peduncles (by which we understand scapes), and white blossoms. 
The figure shews it to be a genus very nearly allied to Calanthe, from which it differs in having the 
lip perfectly free from the column, instead of being united with it. It also appears to have a 
column much elongated, while that of Calanthe is in general particularly short ; but such a difference 
is unimportant, because Calanthe densiflora has also a very long column, and the discovery of the 
present species with a very short column still further destroys any value which the character 
alluded to may have been supposed to possess. 
