Tab. 702G. 



CALANTHE striata. 

 Native of Japan. 



Nat. Ord. Okchide.e. — Tribe Epidendreje. 

 Genus Calakthe, Br.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 520.) 



Calanthe striata ; foliis petiolatis plicato-nervosis elliptico-lanceolatis acnminatis, 

 scapo elato, racemo multifloro, bracteis snbulatis, floribus 1^-2 poll, latis, 

 sepalis petalis-que patentibus pallide cinnamomisaureo-margirntis extus anreip, 

 apicibus acutis recuivis, sepalo dorsali oblongo lateralibus oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 petalis paullo angustioribus, labello tripartita albo, lobis ffiquilongis lateralibus 

 orbieulatis acinaciformibus v. serni-ovatis saepe lalcatis, intermedio cuneato- 

 obcordato truncate lobulato v. 2-lobo, disco trilamellato laraellis aureis, calcare 

 gracili incurvo sepalis dimidio breviore, columna puberula, antbera obtuse 

 rostrata. 



C. striata, Brown in But. Reg. t. 573, in note; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, 

 p. 251; Fol. Orchid. Calanthe, p. 9; Maxim. Met Biol pt. viii. p. 641; 

 Miquel Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 204; Franch. Sf Sav. Enum. 

 PI. Jap. vol. ii. p. 34. 



C. bicolor, Lindl. Sert. Orchid, sub t. 9. 



Limodorum striatum, Banks Ic. Kcempf. t. 2. 



A native of Japan, where first made known by Kasmpfer, 

 through the series of drawings of Japanese plants, which 

 having been acquired by the British Museum, were pub- 

 lished by Sir Joseph Banks, under the title of te Icones 

 Kaempferianse." It is closely allied to another Japan 

 species, G. discolor, Lindl. (Sert. Orchid, sub t. 9 ; Bot. 

 Reg. 1840, t. 55), which differs in the smaller size and 

 purplish sepals and petals, and the deeply two-lobed mid- 

 lobe of the lip. None of these characters appear, however, 

 to hold good ; the flowers of both vary greatly as to colour, 

 and the midlobe of the lip is also very variable. Franchet 

 and Maximovicz both attribute the separate figures of 

 flowers in Kaempfer's figure to discolor, but they clearly 

 represent those of striata, as indeed Kaampfer intends they 

 should, being truncate and obscurely or irregularly lobulate, 

 whereas Lindley's figureof C. discolor represents two rounded 

 segments with a sinus reaching nearly to the base of the 

 midlobe itself. Franchet indeed says that intermediates 

 exist between striata and discolor. 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1888. 



