912 ORCHIDES. calanthe. 



S. 1. Ghiesebreghtia. A. Ricli. in Ann. Sc. ser. 3, IH. p. 28. 



1. CALANTHE TRICAP.INATA Lindl. Orch. Nr. 18. L. F. p. 2. 



2. CALANTHE PUBERDLA Lindl. Orch. Nr. 19 GrilT. ic. t. 313. L. F. p. 2 : 



Flowers rose-rolour. with linear yeilowish pptals. 'and a purple lip. The middle 

 lobe of ihe lip vari«'s in form from linear-lanceolate and entire to obovate oblong. 

 or lanceoiale and serrste. 



Wild on the mouniains of Sylhet— Wallich; Khasia Monnlains — ririffith. at tbe 

 height of 5-6000 feet-Hooker and Tbomson; .N. W. nimalaya. at 5()00 feet— T. Thom- 

 son ; Assain— Mack ; Sikkim. Dorjeeling, at 3000 feei— J. D Hooker. 



3. CALANTHE OCC.IDE.NTALIS L. F. L c. p. 3 : 



C. scapo ovnrioqne tornentosis, jybelii basi conici lobo medio sub- 

 rotundo ciispo 5-laiiielialo. 



The five lamellae planted upon a nearly orbicular lip , with a very short conical 

 spur, plainly dislinguish this. I know noihing of ils colour. 



Wild in the N. VV. Himalaya ; Sirmur, at 6—7000 feet— T. Thomson, Jacquemont. 



4. CALANTHE BREVICORNU Lindl. Orch. Nr. 16. Sertum Orchid.. l. 9 L. F. p. 3: . 



Flowers brick-red, striped wiih white. 



Wild in Nepal — VVrtllich ; Kamaon — Namik, at 9000 feet — Strachey and Winter- 

 bottom; Sikkim, in woods. in May. at 5—6000 feet— J. D. Hooker. 



Sert. I. c. 9: 9"— 1'/.^' broad . deep green leaves grailually laper oIT into a .sheaihing 

 foliaceous stalk, surrounded externally by several sheaihing scales. Scape about the 

 same height as leaves, smooth , round, with a few disiaiit scales. Flower raceraes 

 generally arranged on one side of ihe scape; subiained by ovate-lanceolate, slighily 

 downy bracts , longer than the pedicels. Ovary tlavaie , downy. Sepals and petals 

 linear-lanceolate, S)ireading, nearly equal, slrijied with bright ligiit red. Laliellum 3- 

 lobed , not very nol much uwited with the coliimn, has a very short smooth .spur; 

 lateral lobes are arute. and miich srnaller , ihan tlie iniddle one, which is obovate 

 and emarginate. with 2-deep vertical plates incumbing down the middle towards the 

 spur, and conceeling a Ihird, which is smaller, but longer; its col. is white, wilh a 

 few reddish spots at the base. The fruit is an oblong iriangular capsule, ojtening at 

 the angles inio 3 valves. 



5. CALANTHE CILOBA Lindl. Fol. p. 3: 



C. spica densa cylindiacea, snpnlis aciminatis patpnti.^^simis, petalis 

 bneaiitiiis, labelli basi conici lobis lateralibiis obsolelis, inlermedio iin- 

 gtiicnlalo cimealo bilol)0 lacimi.s aciilis j>er axin carnoso. 



Flowtrs jn long spikes , dull wine-red. The pollen-masses are represented in a 

 drawing among Mr. Cathcart's collection, as adhering lo a wedge-shaped caudicle. as 

 broad and neaily as long as themselves. 

 Wild in Sikkiin, ai 4000 feet-J. D. Hooker. 



6. CALANTHE MEXICANA Rchb, til. Orch. Europ, t. 355. fig. 5. 6. 7. Bot. Zlg. 1853." 

 p. 493. L. F. p. 3: 



C. spica conica. floribiis oiimino tomentosis. petalis nanis, labello 

 panlo longiore obovalo apiciildlo cornn brevi lacinus latoralibus eieclis 

 nanis. 



Ghiesebreghtia calanlhoides A. Rich I. c. Lindl. in Orch. Limlen. Nr. 129. 

 ..Petals yellowish while, dolicd with rose." — Linden. -Althnugli I adojit Mr. Rei- 

 chenbach's view, and refer this new-world plant to the old-world genus Calaiithe . ii 

 is necpssary lo observe, that. in ils dwarf pctals a.nil lip . and in ihe double gland Of 

 Ihe poIlen-ma.<»se9, it is snfflciently distingnishable , and more deserving of distinnion 

 ihan manv so-called genera. Ils hahit is howover the same as ih.ii of Calanihe. 



