<>r the Clrcars; does not ctist its leaves; Jlowers during tlie hot
" T h e wood of thi. species is employed for many purposes by the
native. ; Europetms do not know it. The berries „re eaten by the
nalives wlien ripe, and arc pvetiy good, but raihcr wo astrmgem.
:54. UVAKIA SUBEROSA.
Cliilcka duclugiiorthcTclingas.
Trunk rema)-k:ibly straight. Bark scal^roiis, %-ery deeply split in
vniious direcuons,
Brandcs Iwvizoiual, tNS'o-faccd.
Leaves ¡ilteniaie, iwo-faced, shori-peiioled, oblong, waved, both
• sides .smoolh, deep-shining green; from iwo to three inches
long, and alsout one and one and a hall' bioad.
Pcdimdes apposite (leaf-op posed), single, bo«'ing, onc-flowevecl.
Calyx may be said to be six-kaved, and the Cord three-petaled. as
only the intevior three of the nine are coloured, coral-like.
S/amnil as in U. Cerasoides.
Briries niimcrons, as in the lorn
Seed one, shape of the bcrry.
)nly when ripe, black.
This sj^ecies is nu.eh wore common than the To though
seldom acquires the size of a tree, except among the mountain
is in Hovver and fruit all the year, and does not cast its leaves
The wood of this species is more useful than that of the fo
it is of a chocolaic colour, durable, and very clastic.
3C. UVARIA LUTEA.
Muoyof the Telingas.
Trunk as in the others, remarkably straiglu. Bark dark coloured,
pretty .imooth.
Laiucs horizontal, two-laced, shori-petioled, oblong or oval, very
smooth, shining, hnn, waved, entire, about three inches long,
and one ami a half broad.
Pcdnnclr generally leaf-opposed, very short; from one to six-flowered.
Flowers w dirty greenish rust-colour, short-pedicelcd.
Calyx three-leaved, small.
Carol six-petaled, four or five times larger than the calyx.
Filamcnis very short.
Anthers oblong, pointed.
Gcmis from four to six.
Berries from four to six, short pedlceled, placed in form of a star
roundtheir receptacle for a common centre; size of a partridge's
eg|, oval, smooth, pulpy, and, when ripe, of a bright yellow.
Seed about six in each berry, kidney-form, nidulant.
Thi; is also a pretty large tree, and gro\vs only among the n
s flowering time is in the hot season. It docs not cr
35. UVARIA TOMENTOSA,
Trunk straight, of considerable height and size.
Bra7ichcs numerous, horizontal, forming a very large shady head.
Branchlets two-faced, alternate.
Leaves alteinatc, two-faced, short-petioled, oblong, or oval, very
downy, soft, entire; from iwo to three inches long, by one
and two broad.
Slij^tdes none.
Pcdnndes scattered, generally single, bowing, slender, woolly, half
the length of the leaf, one-flowered.
Calyx and Cord as in U. sulierosa.
Filnmmts numerous, very short, not club'd.
Aiithers oblong, twin.
Oerins as in the other, glutinous.
size of a large nutmeg, round, downy, pulpy, dark purple
when ripe.
Sn(U generally four, nidulant, kidney-form, size of a french bean.
A large tree, a native of the Circar mountains; flowers during the
.17. ORCHIS TLANTAGINEA.
Bulh perennial, generally single, undivided, egged, villous, size of
a pigeon's egg; a few fungous, villous fibres issue from the
base of the scape, near its insertion into the top of the bulb.
Leaves from four to eight, radical, pressing on the earth, broud-oval,
smooth, deep shining-green, .somewhat Ilesliy, many-nerved ;
about four inches long, and three broad.
Sccifie erect, about a foot or a foot and a half high, including the
flower-bearing part; about as thick as a goose-quill, round,
smooth ; at every inch and a half, or two inches, there is a
lanced kafy sheath.
Spike four to six inches long, every where surronnded with flowers.
Flowers numerous, single, bracted, white, f'r.igrant.
Brads single, one-flowered, lanced, nerved, as long as the germ.
Cord: three exterior petals, nearly equal; two interior, small, obliquely
oblong, erect.
^'edary.• upper lip short; under lip three-parted ; middle division
long, narrow, pointed, recúrvate,
/fon! nearly twice the length of the germ, perpendicular, or nearly
so.
of moist valleys among the hills ; flowering t e the
5S. LIMODORUM VIRENS.
Bulbs many, connccted near the base, conical, pointed, surrounded
with the circular marks of the insertions of the leaves, greenish,
apexes generally above ground, many fleshy fibres issue from
the base.
Leaves all radical, several, linear, slightly nerved, nearly the length
of the scape, about an inch broad, smooth.
33 LWfODORUM VIRENS.
Sca¿e axillary, erecC, often branchy, from one to two feet high,
round, smooth, coloured with purple spots; here and there a
sheathed, acute bract.
F/owcrj reinóte, striated, greenish-yellow.
Bracts acute, short, one-flowered.
Petals nearly equal, erect, or ascending.
Xeeta^y: imder lip projecting, broader, but shorter ihnn the petals
laterally lobed: lobes involute: iniddle division large, hearted
fiinged.
Is ; of dry, uncultivated ground ; flowers during the cold
41. LIMODORUM API-IYLLUM.
RooU fibrous, adhering
Stents perennial, severa
39. LIMODORUM RECURVUM.
Bulbs perennial, striated, nearly rotnid, surrounded with one or two
rings ; many thick, fleshy fibres, from their lower parts.
Stem, (If il can be so called] from the side or base of the bulb ; but
it is no other than the vaginated petioles of the three or four
leaves united, and enveloped with two or thi'ee abrupt sheaihs,
scarcely appearing above the grouiid.
broad-lanced, five-nerved, in substance slender, alittlewaved
round the margins, smooth, from six to twelve inches long,
and three or four broad.
Scape from the same part of the bulb with the stem, and even sometimes
involved in the lowermost sheath or two of the scape,
bending to one side for a short way, then nodding ; about six
inches long, or rather less tlian half the length of the leaves ; a
few sheaths surrounding it here and there.
spike globular, apex looks straight to the ground ; many-flowered.
.Swc/i sessile, .straight, lanced, onc-flowercd.
Flowers numerous, crowded, white, with a small tinge of yellow.
Petals nearly equal.
J^eetary: under lip broad : apex rounded, undivided, shovel-form,
crenulated-
Honi scarcely any.
A native of moist valleys among tlie hills ; flowering time the beginning
of the rains.
I liave raised it in my garden for several years, where ihe leaves
remain most part of the year.
a tufi to rocks, &c,
nost simple, spreading, or pendulous, as
naked, round, jointed ai every inch, and
tit each joint small, membranaceous, annular squamx, without,
the least vestige of a leaf.
Flowers sessile, (unless the germ is callcd a peduncle) generally single,
issuing from the joints of the stems,
Xcdary large, near the base, the sides incin ved. so as to form (as
it were) a tuljc, the exterior part expanded, margins curled,
waved, and ciliated ; it Is of a pale sulphur colour.
This is a very rare plant; a native of dry rocky hills. J brought
it into my garden, and planted it ¡n as dry a barren spot as 1 could
find, but it lived only till the first rains fell. It flowers the beginning
of the hot season.
42. EPIDKNDRUM TKSSELLA'FUM.
Äcflii several, simple, or branchy, thick, smooth; long, contorted,
fibres issuing from the lower, nuked ]5art of the stem, and from
among the lower leaves, adhering firinly lo tlie bark of the tree,
Stm perennial, simple, one or two feet long, as thick as the little
finger, crooked, upper part covered with leaves, lower naked,
withering away at the lower extremity.
Leaves appioximated, imbricated, alternate, two-faced, linear, channelled,
fleshy, smooth, very firm, extremities iwo-thrcc-toothed;
from six to nine inches long, and about one broad.
Raceme axillary, naked, length of the leaves, llower-bearing part
winding, few-flowered.
Flowers fiom five to ten, remote, two-faced, beautifully waved and
striated, with various shades of a greenish-yellow.
Petals oviil, spreading, equal, scolloped,
Mdafy length of the petals, about the middle its sides approach,
forming a tube: apex somewhat pointed,
This is a very beautiful perennial parasite, found adhering to the
trunks and branches of trees among the Circar mountains; flower.*
during die wet season.
40. LIMODORUM NUTANS.
It diff'ers from the Limodorum recurvum in the following respects:
Here the Bullís are smooth; there striated.
Here the Leaves are oval; there lanced.
Here the Scape is longer than the leaves; there not half so long.
Here the Spike is oblong and pendulous; there globular and i-igidly
recurved.
Here the Flozuers stand at some distance from one another; there
they are crowded.
Here they are a beautiful rose colour; there white.
Here the under lip of the JVectary is sharp-pointed; thei'e circular,
and crenulated.
It i a native of the same places with the last; ;ring time the
43. EPIDENDRUM PRyEMORSUM.
Thalia maravara, R/ieed. mal. 12. />. 9, lab. 1, (quoted by Linnsus
for Epidendrum furvum, but very different from Angrscum
furvum oi Rumpkius.)
Root and Slem tlie same.
Leaves remote, alternate, two-faced, linear, channelled, smooth,
very firm, end-bitten, jointed just above their sheath-like base;
about six inches long, and one broad.
spike before the leaf, or leaf-opposed, short, straight, thick, manyflowered,
5r<2fii small, triangular, one-flowered,
Floxvers stni ound every part of the spike, small, variegated with red
This is also a parasite, and grows in similar places; flowering