ineumbeHi paulo immersa, turbmata corolke fore emeolora, bihcularis lo- 

 cttKs tewrimx nibtus amnoi^o-^oimiventiims ; locKha quwpte massiUas polli- 

 Deas 4 mcbtdens; massse pollinis 8, j^araUela, HwaH-spath»IattB aWidts 

 dtarissimtB. Stigma sub kbo medio eJoi^aio cobtmtue laterta^ bOohum, recur- 

 vato-proHoneiu, vUreo-apkndmst ecrrugatum sed kevissimum, atque nitir 

 diiiimum lobis apice rotmdatiSf areolam secementem avAtus abteondens* 



Leaves radical, two feet high, yellowish green, plaitedly 

 nerved, lanceolate, five inches over, channeled and petio- 

 lately tapered toward the base. Scenes several, 2-4 feet 

 high, simple, upright, round, villous, green, opaque, with 

 several close-pressed lanceolate short scattered sheaths. 

 Spike terminal, niunerous, close, upright, six inches to a 

 foot long, cylindrical, horizontally spreading : am whitish 

 green, sulcate ; trades several times shorter than the ger- 

 men, green, lanceolate, gradually smaller. Flowers villous 

 outside, uniformly white, turning green where wounded, 

 1^-2 inches long. Germen 1^ inch long, more than an 

 inch longer than the corolla, and one third longer than the 

 ^rar. CoroUa outspread, radiate, nearly regular, two in- 

 ner aeigments narrowest. Label twice the length of the 

 corolla, continuous with the lower side of the apex of the 

 column, and resembling an appendage to that part, out- 

 spread, S-'parted, lower side-lobes divaricate, entire, shorter, 

 middle furcately bifid like the letter Y, segments blunt, the 

 whole turning to a ci-eam-colour before it fades away. 

 Column short, thick, turbinate: anther incumbent along 

 the upper side of the summit of the column; bilocular: 

 pollen masses 8, parallel, linear-spatolate (the shape of 

 Harlequin's sword in miniature), compressed, white ; stig- 

 ma 2-lobed, shining, recurvedly prominent, hid beneath t£e 

 prominent pistil. 



The name pf Calanthe was proposed for this genus, 

 and ito separation from Limodorum and Blbtia, in a former 

 article of this work, by Mr. Brown. 



r 



Drawn from a fine plant in Mr. ColvilVs hothouse at 

 Chelsea, where several stems, three feet and more in length, 



were thrown up from the same root. 



