330 MR. HENRY RIDLEY ON ORCHIDEZ AND 
C. Wrayi var. ? Scortechinii of the ‘ Flora of British India.’ As to 
the type of C. Wrayi, I am rather at fault, the description in 
the ‘Flora of British India,’ v, p. 850, suits some forms of 
C. Cecilie very well; but the figure and description in the 
‘Icones Plantarum,’ t. 2114, do not. In the first the lip 18 
described as having the “mid-lobe cleft into two dimidiate 
obovate crenulate segments disc with conical calli”; in the 
latter, “lobis oblongis obtusis divaricatis disco basi callis parvis 
pectinatis instructo,” and the lobes are figured quite entire. 
The Pahang plant may possibly be distinct; the flowers were 
as dark violet as O. Masuca, Lindl. 
CaLANTHE cuRCULIGOIDES, Lindl., Gen. et Sp. Orch., Pp. 251; 
et in Wall. List., n. 7340. 
Hab. Singapore: Common; Choa Chu Kang! Kranji! Toa 
Payoh! 
Johore: Gunong Pulai ! 
Perak: Maxwell’s Hill, Larut Hills! 
Also occurs in Luigga (Hulbett) ! 
This charming plant grows, often abundantly, in wet swampy 
woods in dead and rotten leaves. It flowers in September and 
October. I have seen small woods dotted all over with its 
showy orange spikes. 
The Calanthe curculigoides of the ‘Botanical Magazine,’ t. 6104, 
is quite a distinct plant. 
C. Scortecuiyu, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 854. 
Hab. Perak: Larut Hills, abundant. 
This much resembles C. curculigoides, Lindl., when out of 
flower, and is sometimes brought in by collectors for that 
species. It is a very shabby uninteresting plant. The 
enormous pale greenish bracts, very much longer than the 
flower, 2 inches in length, fall off as the flowers develop. The 
flower is light yellow. It seems to barely open. 
C. ansustiro.ia, Lindl., Gen. et Sp. Orch., p. 251. 
Hab. Malacca: Woods on the lower slope of Mt. Ophir! 
Perak: Gunong Hijan, Larut Hills; 6,900 feet alt. 
The bracts are 14 inches long, narrow lanceolate acuminate. 
This is described as having “stem very short or 0” in the Fl. 
Brit. Ind.,’ v. p. 854; but it has, as shown in the figure 1> 
‘Xenia Orchidacea,’ i. t. 79, quite a long slender rhizome. 
