ORCHIDACE^. 391 



by enveloping bracts ; later lengthening, and the bracts 

 deciduous. Floral bracts 1/4 by ^ to !^ inch. Flower- 

 stalks I inch. Sepals and petals lJ4 by J^ inch, pure 

 white. Centre of lip with a pair of high ridges and a 

 pair of lateral shorter ones, all smooth. Wight Ic. t. 1638. 



On rocks. Pulneys : near Kodaikanal, Pamban stream, etc. 

 Bourne 1223, 1332, 2940,'^ 2941. 



Coelogync mossiaB Rolfe ; XXXIV 27." Tubers ovoid 

 wrinkled. Leaves about nine-nerved. Spikes five or six- 

 flowered. Lip with two raised ridges only. t. 247. 



Nilgiris : on the downs. Rare. 



Apparently very rare. Mr. Rolfe, at Kew, had seen only one specimen. 

 The fissure (t. 247) appeared to be his species, but t had not my specimen, 

 from which the figure had been drawn, to compare with the type plant. 



CALANTHE. f.b.i. 148 xxxvii. 



Large ground orchids with broad longitudinally 

 plaited leaves, wrapping round each other in bud, but 

 not in two ranks. Flowering shoot lateral on the stem 

 (not terminal). Sepals and petals approximately equal. 

 Lip adnate to the short column. Polliniums eight, 

 slender. 



Species about 40, mostly in tropical Asia, but also in Japan, 

 islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, tropical Africa, 

 Central America, Mexico and the West Indies, 



Calanthe veratrifolia Brcrcon ; F.B.I. v 851, XXXVII 

 15 ; the white Wood Orchid. 



A large plant, with the habit of a Eucharis Lily but 

 the leaves folded between the main veins like a fan, and 

 tall racemes of white flowers, with lip bifid and spreading 

 out flat, and long slender spur. 



Stem tuberous, growing in the ground with long 

 thick roots. Leaves spirally placed, plaited (like a fan) : 

 stalk 6 inches, blade 10 inches by 4 inches, larger or 



