GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
33. Calanthe sylvatica. Lindley. A beau- 
tiful terrestrial Stove Orchid, with long erect spikes 
of large flowers, at first white, but changing to 
bright yellow. Has flowered at Paris with M. 
Pescatore, from the Isles of Prance and Bourbon. 
This is the most beautiful of all the species of Calanthe. 
To the foliage and general habit of the White Hellebore- 
leaved (CalantJie veratrifolia), it adds far finer flowers, 
which are at first pure white, but by degrees change to a 
clear bright yellow, very different from the livery of death- 
Thus, each spike of flowers resembles a massive plume, 
the upper part of which is snow-white, the lowest very 
yellow, while in the middle the one colour insensibly passes 
into the other through a tender cream-coloured tint. 
34. Angr^cum vikens. Lindley in Botanical 
Register, 1847, under t. 19. A showy white- 
flowered orchidaceous epiphyte, from Bourbon. 
Blossomed in January in the Garden of Plants, 
Mon 
(Figs. 9 & 10). 
In the Garden of Plants, at Paris, were growing in 
markable plant, of which we had previously s 
ments only from the late Mr. George Loddiges, to 
whom it was said to have been sent 
from Serampore. The plants in 
question were as large as a full- 
grown Ivory Angurek (Angrcecum 
ebnrneum) ; but their leaves were so 
flaccid and glaucous, as to render it 
evident that they belonged to some 
other species. From among them 
rose up several stately spikes of 
large unexpanded flowers, conspi- 
cuous for the dark-brown scales 
Which supported them, the whole 
plant having the appearance repre- 
sented in the accompanying fig. 9. 
Each spike was about two feet long. 
is re- 
frag- 
