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fickled, fmooth, a finger’s length, the lower ones fhorter. 
Scape upright, fmooth, fhorter than the leaves. Flowers 
in fpikes, terminating. Native of Japan. 
9. Limodorum monile. See Epidendrum monili- 
forrn'e. 
10. Limodorum virens, or greenifh limodorutn: root 
fcaly, fcape branched, fpotted, braftes acute, flowers re¬ 
mote, greenifh yellow. Bulbs many, connected near the 
bafe, conical, pointed, furrounded with the circular marks 
of the infertions of the leaves, greenifh ; many flefhy fibres 
ifluing from the bafe. Leaves all radical, feveral, linear, 
fiightly nerved, nearly the length of the fcape, about an 
inch broad, fmooth. Scape axillary, ereft, often branched, 
from one to two feet high, round, fmooth, coloured with 
purple fpotsj here and there a fneathed acute brafte. 
Flowers ltrjated ; petals nearly equal, ereft or afcending. 
Under lip of the neftary projefting, broader but (hotter 
than the petals, laterally lobed; lobes involute; middle 
divifion large, heart-fhaped, fringed. Native of Coroman¬ 
del, on dry uncultivated ground; flowering during the 
cold feafon. 
11. Limodorum recurvum, or bent limodorum: root 
tuberous, fcape bending, nodding, fhorter than the leaves, 
leaves broad-lanceolate, five-nerved, fpike globular, nod¬ 
ding. Bulbs ftriated, nearly round, furrounded with one 
or two rings, and having many thick flefhy fibres from 
their lower parts. Stem from the fide or bafe of the bulb : 
it is no other than the fheathed petioles of the three or 
four leaves united, fcarcely appearing above ground. 
Leaves flender in fubftance, a little waved round the mar¬ 
gins, fmooth, from fix to twelve inches long, and three or 
tour broad. Scape from the fame part of the bulb with 
the Item, and even fometimes involved in the lowermoft 
fheath or two of the fcape, about fix inches long, or ra¬ 
ther lefs than half the length of the leaves; a few (heaths 
furroundiog it here and there. Flowers numerous crowd¬ 
ed, white with a fmall tinge of yellow. Native of Coro¬ 
mandel, in moift valleys among the hills, flowering at the 
beginning of the rainy feafon. 
12. Limodorum nutans, or nodding limodorum : root 
tuberous, fcape arched, longer than the leaves, ovate, 
five-nerved, fpike oblong, pendulous. This differs from 
the preceding in having the bulbs fmooth, the leaves oval, 
the fcape longer than the leaves, the fpike oblong and 
pendulous, with the flowers at fome diftance from one 
another, of a beautiful rofe-colour, and the under lip of 
the neftary (harp-pointed. Native of the fame places, and 
flowering at the fame time. 
13. Limodorum aphyllum, or leaflefs limodorum: root 
fibrous; leaflefs, flowers folitary, naked, feffile. Stems 
perennial, feveral, molt Ample, fpreading or pendulous 
as the fituation admits, naked, round, jointed at every 
inch, and at each joint fmall membranaceous annular 
feales, without the lealt veftige of a leaf. Flowers generally 
ifluing Angle from the joints of the (ferns: neftary large, 
near the bafe, the fides incurved, fo as to form as it were 
a tube, the exterior part expanded, margins curled, waved 
and ciliated ; it is of a pale purple colour. Native of Co¬ 
romandel, but very rare there, on dry rocky hills; flow¬ 
ering in the beginning of the hot feafon. 
Propagation and Culture. From the little experience we 
have had of the management of the firft fpecies, it appears 
to be fcarcely hardy enough for the open border, yet not 
tender enough to require a ftove. The firff plants were 
produced here by planting the roots in pots filled with 
bog-earth, and plunging them into a tan-pit which had 
a gentle heat, for the purpofb of raifing plants or feeds, 
and for (hiking cuttings. The other forts are much too 
tender to thrive in the open air in England, and feldom 
flower in a green-houfe. They are kept therefore in the 
tan-bed in winter; and, if in fummer the pots be plunged 
in a tan-bed under a deep frame, the plants will thrive, 
and flower ftrongly. They are propagated by offsets from 
the roots, which are fent out pretty freely (from the fe- 
cond fort) when the plants are in vigour. Tiiefe (houid 
be taken off and tranfpianted, when the plants are mod 
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deflitute of leaves. They (houid have a foft loamy foil, 
and little water, efpecially in winter. See Orchis and Sa- 
tyrium. 
LIMO'GES, a city of France, and capital of the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Vienne. Before the revolution 
the fee of a billiop. It is a place of confiderable trade, 
and contains about 20,000 inhabitants: twenty-feven pofts 
north-eaft of Bourdeaux, and 46^ fouth-fouth-weft of 
Paris. Lat. 45. 50. N. Ion. 1. 20. E. 
LIMOL'OGY,/ [from aot/20;, Gr. peftilence.] Atrea- 
tife on the _plague. Bailey. 
LIMOMA'CHIA, / [from the Gr. (M/y.oc, hunger, and 
//.av}}, a fight.] The utmoft diffrefs of hunger. Bailey. 
LI'MON, a fmall ifland on the weft fide of the gulf of 
Bothnia. Lat. 60.44. N. Ion. 17. 9. E. 
LEMON,/. The Lemon. See the article Citrus, vol. 
iv. p. 626. 
LIMO'NA de la TROU, a town of the ifland of Hif- 
paniola, near the north coaft: ten miles fouth-eaft of Cape 
Francois. 
LIMO'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Maritime Alps: fix miles north-north-ealt of Tenda, and 
ten fouth of Coni. 
LIMO'NE, a town of the ifland of Negropont: twenty 
miles fouth of Negropont. 
LIMO'NES, a river of Cuba, which runs into the fee. 
fixty-five miles weft-fouth-weft of Bayamo. 
LIMO'NES (Grande), a town of the ifland of Cuba : 
fifty miles fouth of Havannah. 
LIMONEST', a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Lyons. The place contains 750, and the canton 11,089, 
inhabitants. 
LIMON'HE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Ca- 
hors; thirteen miles eaft of Cahors. The place contains 
1175, and the canton 9279, inhabitants. 
LIMO'NIA, /. [from its refemblance to the lemon- 
tree.] In botany, a genus of the clafs decandria, order 
monogynia. The generic characters are—Calyx : peri- 
anthium one-leafed, three or five cleft, acute, very fmall, 
permanent. Corolla: petals three to five, oblong, obtufe, 
upright, fpreading at the tip. Stamina : filaments fix to 
ten, awl-fiiaped, upright, (horterthan the corolla ; antheras 
linear, upright. Piftillum : germ oblong, luperior; ftyle 
cylindric, length of the ftamens; ftigma headed, flat. Pe- 
ricarpium : berry ovate or fubglobofe, three-celled ; par¬ 
titions membranaceous. Seeds : lolitary, ovate.— EJJential 
Character. Calyx five-parted; petals five; berry three- 
celled ; feeds folitary. 
Species. 1. Limonia monophylla, or Ample-leaved !i- 
mcnia : leaves Ample ; fpines folitary. Trunk irregular. 
With a fmooth greenilh-afti-coloured bark ; branches nu¬ 
merous, very irregular; fpines very ftrong and (harp, but 
in many plants entirely wanting. Leaves alternate on 
fliort petioles, emarginate, fmooth, firm, from two to three 
inches long, an inch or an inch and a half broad. Berry 
fize of a nutmeg, very like a lime, whence comes the 
Hindoo name adavie-nima, or wild lime. It is com¬ 
monly four-celled, and the feeds are generally foiitrary. 
Native of Coromandel, in the large forefts on the coalt, 
where it grows to a fmall tree, though oftener found in 
the ftate of a large flirub. Introduced in 1777, by Dan. 
Charles Solander, LL. D. 
2. Limonia lucida, or (hining limonia: unarmed ; leaves 
Ample; pedunclesaxillary. Native of the ifland of MaU 
licollo, in the South Seas. 
3. Limonia trifoliata, or three-leaved limonia : leaves 
ternate ; fpines in pairs. This tree has the appearance of 
an orange, with flexuofe branches. Leaves alternate, pe- 
tiqled, quite entire, with pores fcattered over them, the 
fame fize with thole in Jafminum fruticofum. Berry pe- 
dur.ded, globular, fmooth, red, the fize of thofe of Vac- 
cinium. Jussieu informs us that he lias feen this fpecies 
with three petals and five ftamens. J-ucquin deferibes it 
with three petals and fix ftamens, and remarks that in a 
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