Tas. 8803. 
CALANTHE rTricaRInaTA. 
North India, Yunnan and Japan. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE. 
CaLANTHE, f. Br..; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 520. 
Calanthe tricarinata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 252; Wall. Cat. n. 73839 ; 
Lindl. Fol. Orch., Cal. p.2; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 848; King 
& Pantl. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. vol. viii. p. 166, t. 223; Duthie, 1.c. 
vol. ix. p. 119, t. 103; Makino Ill. Fl. Jap. vol. i. t. 14; Rolfe in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 26; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Fl. Jap. vol. ii. 
p. 26; inter species ecalcaratas floribus viridibus et purpureis distincta. 
Herba terrestris, pseudobulbis ovoideis brevibus. Folia 2 vel 3, breviter 
petiolata, elliptica vel lanceolato-elliptica, subacuta, undulata, plizata, 
17-80 cm. longa, 6-9 cm. lata, basi subattenuata. Scapz erecti, 830-50 cm. 
longi; racemi laxi, multiflori; bracteae deltoideae vel ovato-deltoideae, 
acutae, 1-1°5 cm. longae; pedicelli 2-2°5 em. longi. Flores mediocres, 
flavo-virides, labello brunneo-rubri. Sepala et petala patentia, ovato- 
elliptica, subobtusa, 1°5-1°8 cm. longa. Labellwm basi columnae 
adnatum, patens, trilobum, lobi laterales suborbiculares, 0°5 cm. longi; 
lobus intermedius obcordatus vel obcordato-orbicularis, emarginatus, 
undulatus, circiter 1 em. longus; discus tricarinatus carinis crenulatis ; 
calcar obsoletum. Columna oblonga, circiter 0°5 cm. longa. Pollinia 8, 
obovoideo-oblonga; stipes linearis; glandula squamiformis.—Calanthe 
occidentalis, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Cal. p. 3.—R. A. Roure. 
Calanthe tricarinata is an old and well-known Orchid, 
which was first discovered by Wallich in Nepal in 1819. 
Since then it has been met with by various collectors in 
many other localities in the north-west Himalaya. In 
the “‘ Flora of British India” its habitat is given as the 
temperate Himalaya, at elevations of 5000-9000 feet, 
from Kashmir to Nepal. Soon after this announcement, 
which was made in 1890, the species was found in 
Sikkim, by Pantling, at an elevation of 6000 feet, in the 
Lachen valley. But it had already been reported by 
es Maximowicz to occur in grassy woods near Lake Conoma, 
=o in Japan, and it was from Japan that the species was 
: first introduced to cultivation in this country. This 
introduction was in a sense accidental; the species was 
found among some plants of C. Textorii, Miq., imported 
AprRIL~J UNE, 1919. 
