Tab. 5375. 

 CALANTHE Veitchii : hybrida. 

 Mr. VeitcJis Calanthe. Garden hybrid. 



A hybrid between Calanthe vestita {Bot. Mag. t. 4671) and Limatodes 

 rosea {Bot. Mag. t. 531ii). 



The following account of this singular production appeared in 

 the ' Gardeners' Chronicle' for 1859, p. 1016:— 



" Of all the beautiful Orchids obtained by hybridizing, this 

 curious plant stands first. It forms a tuft of flower-stems one 

 foot and a half high, loaded with blossoms of the richest rose- 

 colour of different degrees of intensity. Mr. Dominy produced 

 it in the Nursery of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Exeter, by fer- 

 tilizing Limatodes rosea, a rich rose-coloured beautiful Indian 

 Orchid, with that variety of the white Calanthe vestita which 

 has a deep purple spot at the base of the lip. The result has 

 been most curious ; the hybrid, although completely interme- 

 diate between the two parents, yet shows a rather greater ten- 

 dency to its mother than its father. Of the father it has exactly 

 the manner of growth and the peculiar four-lobed lip ; but it 

 has the rich colour of its mother, and some other peculiarities of 

 her lip, along with an entire correspondence in form with her 

 column. 



" The following comparison of the three will explain this still 

 more clearly. 



"A. — Calanthe vestita : Male plant. 



" 1. Pseudobulbs fleshy, conical, bluntly angular. 



"2. Spur curved. 



" 3. Flowers white, with a deep purple spot at the base of 



the lip. 

 " 4. Sepals and petals secund. 

 "5. Lip adhering to the column, flat at base, with four 



deep blunt lobes. 

 " 6. Column deep, large, compressed, quite smooth. 

 " 7. Pollen-masses eight, deep yellow, adhering by two 

 smooth separate straps. 



APRIL 1st, 1863. 



