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short. Spike truncate. Bractes whitish, linear, about as long as 

 the ovaria. Flowers white, inodorous, ascending or erect. Peri- 

 anth less spreading than usual. Sepals oblong, mucronulate, the 

 lateral rather broader. Petals more oblong, rather broader. La- 

 bellum ecalcarate, keeled along the middle underneath, very con- 

 cave and broad below the middle, above attenuate into a concave, 

 almost conduplicate, emarginate, crenated apex. It has two short 

 converging crests at the base, which leave a small cavity between 

 them. Colour white, crests and attenuated apex yellow. Column 

 very short, stout, sprinkled with purple cellular pubescence below 

 the stigma and along the broad line of union of the lip. A bidentate 

 tooth on either side of the apex. Anthers white, with dark purple 

 sides and under-lip. Pollen masses oblong. Caudicula broad, short. 

 Gland very broad and large. 



This species is at once recognised by the as it were trun- 

 cate spike, the ascending flowers, less spreading perianth, 

 shape of the labellum and extremely short column. 



A drawing of it exists, marked in pencil G. candidum, 

 Wallich, without any description or explanation, or infor- 

 mation. This same name will be found in No 7374 of this 

 Botanist's Catalogue, and is referred to G. pallidum, (Don.) 

 in Lindl. genera and species. The Limodorum candidum of 

 Roxburgh, as has been seen, is a very different plant. It is 

 one among many instances that a Botanist, who attaches 

 MSS. names profusely and without examination, who thinks 

 Herbaria useless to Indian Botanists, and who does not 

 even keep his series of drawings complete, can never be 

 sure of recognising one of his own species. And if in a 

 small genus of 6-8 species one or two instances of such con- 

 fusion arise, what may not be expected in extensive genera ; 

 what cumbersome and useless additions to synonymy, if any, 

 the least, attention be paid to such names. 



The remaining Indian species of this genus are as fol- 

 lows: — 



3 A 



