Tas. 4671. 
CALANTHE vestIitTa. 
Hairy-stemmed Calanthe. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4541.) 
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CALANTHE vestita; pseudobulbis late ovatis subrotundatisve striatis tenui- 
reticulatis, foliis amplis glabris lato-lanceolatis acuminatis striatis, scapis 
radicalibus ovariisque molliter villosis, spica laxa pluriflora, labelli lamina 
triloba lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis intermedio cuneato divergenti- 
bilobo inappendiculato, calcare filiformi inflexo labello breviore. 
CALANTHE vestita. Wall. Oat. n. 7345. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 250; 
and in Past. Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 106. fig. 72. 
Discovered by Dr. Wallich in 'Tavoy ; but it does not appear 
to have been introduced to our stoves till very lately by the 
Messrs. Rollison; who received it from their collector at Moul- 
mein. Of the many Indian species of Calanthe now known to 
us, the flowers of this are decidedly the largest ; some of the 
pure white flowers (or with only a spot of yellow on the disc of 
the labellum) measuring two and a half or two and three-quarter 
inches from tip to tip of the petals. The leaves, too, are broad, 
and the pseudo-bulbs often much larger than our figure represents 
them. It flowered at the Messrs. Rollisons’ Tooting Nursery in 
April, 1852. It seems to have previously flowered with the 
Messrs. Veitch in 1848, when the large silver medal, the highest 
ever given in Regent-street, was awarded to it by the Horticul- 
tural Society. , 
_Descr. Old pseudo-bulbs broadly ovate or subrotund, some- 
times four to five inches long and seven to eight inches in cir- 
cumference, obtusely angular, partially sheathed with mem- 
branaceous scales, pale grey or ash-colour, striated and reticu- 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1852. 
