1 
Le 
coches 
, Tas. 6104, 
CALANTHE CURCULIGOIDES. 
Native of Malacca. 
Nat. Ord. OrcuipeEm.—Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Catantue, Br. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Calanthe). 
CaLantuE (Eucalanthe) curculigoides ; foliis anguste ellipticis glabris scapo 
duplo longioribus; racemo cylindraceo denso, bracteis membranaceis 
caducis, labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, medio subpanduriformi 
acuto nervis quinque parallelis, caleare uncinato, rostello longo setiformi 
faucem occludente, 
CALANTHE curculigoides, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 251; Bot. Reg. 1847, 
t.8; Fol. Orchid. Calanthe, p. 4; Walp. Ann., vol. i.p. 7 92 et vol. vi. 
p- 918; Wall. Cat., 7340. 
? Amptyatorris pulchra, Blume Bijd. 371. 
? Catantue pulchra, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orch., p. 250. 
A native of Malacca, Penang, and Singapore, according to 
Lindley, who described it originally from specimens collected 
: lich, and who afterwards 
* figured it in the Botanical Register from a plant flowered by 
the Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney. In the latter work Dr. 
Lindley describes it as an undisputed novelty by reason of its 
llow in his figure, with 
hich they are of a 
rather bright orange. The flowers too are much more 
and the lip 
different. 
the Botanical 
Lindley also 
in the two latter countries by Wal 
colour, which is pale dirty ochreous ye 
much larger flowers than our plant, in W 
ringent in Lindley’s figure and dried specimen, 
is more acute, but I can hardly think the species are 
I have taken the two doubtful synonyms from 
Register, having no means of verifying them. 
gives Java as a habitat. 
at the base, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-! 
about six strong parallel nerves, deep 
beneath. Racemes three to four inches long (or more), 
JUNE Ist, 1874. 
a SryLoGLossum nervosum, Kuhl §- Hasselt ex Herb. Lindl.; Breda Orch. Jav., 
2g a 
Drscr. Terrestrial. Leaves subradical, distichous, sheathing 
anceolate, acute, with 
green above, paler — 
