856 CXLVIII. oROHIDEX, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Calanthe. 
32. C. rosea, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii..521; scape from the base of a 
large pseudobulb and many-fld. raceme villous, bracts ovate-lanceolate 
persistent, flowers large rosy, lip with narrow convolute side lobes and a 
large obovate oblong entire spreading midlobe, spur slender shorter than 
the sepals. Limatodes rosea, Lindl. in Pazt. Fl. Gard. t. 81; Fol. Orchid. 
1; Bot. Mag. t. 5312; Walp. Ann. vi. 921. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 
Pseudobulbs 4-8 in., obpyriform or fusiform, acutely keeled and grooved, leafing 
after flowering. Leaves 8-18 in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape 12-18 in. 
slender; pedicel and ovary 1} in.; bracts 1-1 in., green; flowers l} in. across; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate; petals oblong, acute; lip 1} in. long, base yellow edged 
with scarlet; spur shorter, villous ; column very short, pubescent. —In many respects 
allied to C. vestita, with which it hybridizes. ` 
33. C. labrosa, Hook. f. ; habit, foliage and inflorescence of C. rosea, 
but sepals yellow without, purplish within, as are the petals, lip flabelli- 
form from a cuneate base retuse crisped pale purple with darker purple 
spots at the base, and spur longer than the sepals. Limatodes labrosa, 
Reichb. f. in Gard, Chron. 1879, i. 202. 
[4 - . . 
TENASSERIM; at Moulmein (Hort. Veitch). 
I have seen only a portion of a raceme. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES AND SPECIES OF DOUBTFUL POSITION. 
34. C. gigantea, Mook. f.; stem tall, leaves alternate distichon 
scape basal very tall and stout, raceme long puberulous very many-fd, 
bracts short j-amplexicaul rigid revolute, flowers coriaceous, sepals irs 
petals linear-lanceolate faleate caudate-acuminate, lip very small fert 
sessile opposite the stigma of the pubescent column quadrate trunca 
apiculate puberulous, side lobes mere coriaceous auricles, spur obsolete. 
PERAK ; in dense jungles, King’s Collector, Wray. 
Stem 2 ft., as thick as the middle finger. Leaves 6-10 in., 
acuminate, Scape with raceme 3—4 ft., as thick as the stem; 
with subulate tips ; pedicels very short; flowers 1 in. diam., pubesce 
with crimson ; sepals spreading, many-nerved ; petals narrower; side 
on the short almost hispid column; anther hispid, 4-celled ; pollinia 
4 consists of 2 large subhemispheric placed face to face, and 2 very much sm 
attached to one viseus. —A remarkable plant, black when dry. 
sessile, lanceolate, 
bracts very broad 
nt, yellow spot 
s of lip decurren 
8, each group ? 
aller, 
| M hid.), is 
C. CARINATA, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 183 (not taken up 1n Fol. Ord , 
founded on Wilidenow's Limodorum carinatum, aud that again on Rheede 
which is possibly C. nutans, L. 05, are 
, ji, 109, 
C. SULPHUREA and C. TRICOLOR, Wort. Huegel, in Heyne Nomencl. ^ 
names only, 
38. ARUNDINA, lume. i 
tems, an 
Terrestrial erect herbs with rigid terete sheathed simple 5 nal erect 
narrow grassy distichous leaves. Flowers large, red, 1m tor ding: 25 
stiff simple or branched racemes or panicles. Sepals free, Sp UM 
ceolate, acuminate, flat, many-nerved. Petals broader, many-me Column 
large, broad, sessile on the base of the column and embracing ! 8 jn com- 
long, slender, narrowly winged; foot 0. Axther-cells 2, polline Malaya” 
pressed superposed pairs cohering by a viscus.— Species © aR 
and Chinese. i 
