Calanthe.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 851 
form, disk tubercled, spur longer than the sepals. Bof. Mag. t. 4541; 
Part, Fl, Gard. i. 138; Jard. Fleuriste, t. 62; Walp. Ann. vi. 915. C. 
versicolor, Lindl. Sert. Orchid. t. 42; Bot. Reg. 1844, sub. t. 37; Fol. 
Orchid. 6. C. emarginata, Wight Ic. t. 918; ? Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
249; Fol. Orchid. 5. C. Wightii, Reichb. f. in Walp. l. c. 933. ? Ambly- 
glottis emarginata, Blume Bijd. 370.  Bletia Masuca, Don Prodr. 30. 
Zoduba Masuca, Herb. Ham. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards. | DEOCAN PENINSULA, in the 
Ghats of Maisor and Malabar.—DisTRiB. Java. 
Stem short, stout. Leaves 12-18 in., subsessile or petioled, elliptic-ovate to 
lanceolate, glabrous or subpubescent beneath. Scape lateral, stout, with the lax-fld. 
raceme 13-3 ft., stout, pubescent; bracts $—l in. ; pedicels with ovary 11-1] in. ; 
flowers pale or dark purple, rarely pale rose, 2-23 in. diam. ; lip hardly exceeding 
the sepals often violet, calli yellow. Capsule 14 in.—The colour of flower and form 
of midlobe of lip vary much. In C. versicolor the perianth is white with a purple 
lip changing to yellow. Under C. purpurea, (Fol. Orchid. 6) Lindley describes 
the leaves of Ç, Masuca as differing from those of versicolor in being pilose; but in 
8 clavis of the species (p. 1) Masuca is described as glabrous. 
Van, fulgens; stem 6-8 in., leaves 12-14 by 4—5 in. at length petioled, petals 
narrower 3-nerved, flowers 3 in, diam., sepals almost crimson, lip deep purple. C. 
fulgens, Lind], Fol. Orchid. 10. Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. 
l4. €. purpurea, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 2491; in Bot. Reg. 
B44, sud. t, 37; Fol. Orchid. 6; leaves softly sparsely hairy on both 
Surfaces, Scape and few-fld. raceme tomentose, bracts ovate shorter than the 
long Pedicels, sepals ovate or oblong-lanceolate 5-7-nerved, petals broadly 
oblanceolate or oblong 3-5-nerved, side lobes of lip narrow or broad, mid- 
obe broadly or narrowly cuneately obcordate, disk warted near the base, 
spur very ‘long. Walp. Ann. vi 915; Trimen Cat. Pl. Ceyl. 88. C. 
suca, Thw. Enum. 308. 
CEYLON ; in ra district, alt, 2-4000 ft., Thwaites. l 
Habit and flower at asena d but much smaller in all its parts, and with 
eaves hairy on both surfaces, small bracts, and slender spur as long as the 
pedicel, 
15. c. veratrifolia, Br. in Bot. Reg. sub. tab. 573; leaves glabrous, 
bracts large ovate-lanceolate, racemes dense-fld., flowers white, sepals 
elliptic-obovate 5-nerved, petals broadly oblong or oblanceolate nerve , 
Side lobes of lip oblong obtuse, midlobe deeply divided into two. inear 
oblong faleately recurved segments, sinus acute, disk between side 
lobes tubercled; spur slender. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 720; "m A 
rchid. 249; Fol. Orchid. 8; Bot. Mag. t. 2615; Griff... c. Pl 4 siat. 
t 283, f. 4; Walp. Ann. vi. 917. C. comosa, Reichb. f. in Linnea xix, rh 
. Perrottetii, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 68 "n i , E 
Linq], Fol. Orchid. 7. Limodorum veratrifolium, Wilk eb Dd 1 
Anbly glottis veratrifolia, Blume Bijd.270. Bletia quadrifida, Mer). . 
chis triplicata, Willem. (Steud.). 
alt Deccan PENINSULA, alt. 6-7000 ft., from Canara southwards, 
5,7000 ft.—D lay Islands, Australia. . 
lea Habit of C, Masuca, ^ ite which it is easily confounded M Herbariam, but 
> " , 7 € . , 
ves always petioled and. glabrous er elling ese Mailt oz 
Smaller bnt variable in size: spur more s 
P longer than the sepals, very variable in the size and proportion of the lobes and 
"cles, — Reichb. f. refers (Walp. Ann. vi. 933) his comosa (which is Lindley var. 
CEYLON, 
