Tas. 5042. 
CALANTHE Domini (HyBRIDA). 
Hybrid Calanthe. 
Nat. Ord. Orcniprz.—GyNanprRia MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, liberam v. sepalis lateralibus labello 
paululum adnatis, subeequale. Zadel/um cum columna connatum, lobatum v. 
integrum, calcaratum v. muticum, disco lamellatum v. tuberculatum. Columna 
brevis, rostello sepius rostrato. Pollinia 8, basi valde attenuata, quaternatim 
glandule bipartibili adherentia.—Terrestres, scapis erectis multifloris. Folia data, 
plicata. Flores albi aut lilacini, raro lutei. Lindl. 
CaLantuE Dominii; hybrid between C. furcata and C. Masuca. 
CatantuE Dominii. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1858. p. 4. 
Calanthe Masuca, Lindl., a purple-flowered species, is figured 
at our Tab. 4541. Calanthe furcata is a species described by 
Mr. Bateman (Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 34), chiefly differing from 
C. veratrifolia (a white-flowered kind, see our figure, Tab. 
2615) in the larger size of the lateral lobes of the lip. Of the 
plant now under consideration, which was reared in the Exotic 
Nursery of Mr. James Veitch, jun., King’s Road, Chelsea, and 
exhibited to Dr. Lindley, that gentleman remarks: “ One might 
have said that the flowers were just intermediate (between the 
two now mentioned) in all respects. He would have consi- 
dered it either as a purple-flowered C. furcata, or as a fork- 
spurred, small-flowered C. Masuca. Had hybrids been sus- 
pected to occur among Orchids, the plant would have been pro- 
nounced a cross,—and such it was.” It is on this account that 
We figure so interesting a plant here, and for the sake of intro- 
ducing Dr. Lindley’s further remarks upon it, and of securing 
to Mr. Dominy the right of priority in the difficult operation of 
rearmg hybrid Orchids. : 
“Tt appears that it had been raised in the Exeter Nursery by 
r. Dominy, Messrs, Veitch’s indefatigable and very intelligent 
APRIL Ist, 1858. 
