56 THE ROSY LIMATODE. 
It was near Moulmein, in the province of Martaban, that this brilliant species was discovered by 
Mr. Thomas Lobb, and sent to Messrs. Veitch, with whom it flowered in December last. In all 
respects it has the habit of a Calanthe, but the pseudobulbs are long and fusiform. The stem and 
flowers are covered with long hairs like Calanthe vestita. The latter are scentless, deep rose- 
coloured, with an oblong undivided lip, marked at the base of the expanded part with a deep red 
ring, but destitute of certain callosities remarked by Blume in his original species; at the base it is 
rolled up like a Cattleya, and embraces an extremely short pink downy column. For the con- 
venience of our more scientific readers, the following transcript is added of notes made at the time of 
examining the plant :— : 
Labellum omnino leve, ungue circa columnam nanam convoluto, eique denique per spatium 
minimum adnato; haud vestigium callositatis aut appendicis cujuscunque. Anthera apice biloba, 
valdé gibbosa, 8-locularis. Pollinia 8, per filum pulvereum colligata. Rostellum bilobum, lobis 
rotundis prominentibus. Glandula minuta, à rostello vix separabilis. 
| Messrs. Veitch inform us that this species flowers most abundantly, and that the pseudobulbs 
invariably have the peculiarity of producing a kind of neck about their middle; in the imported 
bulbs the part above the neck had all fallen off. 
A third species of this genus was found on the lower ranges of the Mishmee hills by Griffith, from 
whom we have a dried specimen. It produces a leafy stem from two to three feet high, bearing five 
or six broad acuminate leaves. The flowers are few in number, at the extremity of a smooth and 
rather weak scape. They are somewhat larger than in L. rosea, with a curved spur, and an obovate 
four-lobed lip; their colour is unknown. Of these three species the following may be the present 
arrangement :— 
: * Column elongated. 
1. L. pauciflora (Blume Bijdragen, 375, t. 72); floribus glabris, calcare recto, labello oblongo retuso apiculato basi 
bicalloso,—Java, on Mount Salak. 
dh i L. mishmensis ; floribus glabris, calcare incurvo, labello obovato nudo obtuso apice 4-lobo.—Mishmee Hills 
T1 ٠ 4 j 
* * Column very dwarf. 
8. L. rosea {Lindley in Paxton’s Magazine, t. 81) ; floribus villosis, calcare recto horizontali, labello oblongo obtuso 
nudo.— Moulmein. | 
So many species of CALANTHE, the genus nearest to Limatodes, are now in Gardens, the others | 
are so easily procurable, and all are so very handsome, that we cannot do better than occupy a 
vacant space with an enumeration of such as have yet been named, distinguishing by a * those 
ism are not yet known to be in cultivation. Three sections may be conveniently formed among 
them :— 
* Lip spurless or nearly so. 
