Calantlie.'] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 851 



form, disk tuberded, spur longer than the sepals. Bot. Mag. i. 4541 ; 

 Part. Fl. Gard. i. 138 ; Jard. Fleuriste, t. 62 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 915. C. 

 versicolor, Lindl. Serf. Orchid, t. 42; Sot. Beg. 1844, sub. t. 37; Fol. 

 Orchid. 6. C. emarginata, Wight Ic. t. 918; ? Lindl Gen. $ So. Orchid. 

 249; Fol. Orchid. 5. 0. Wightii, Reichb. f. in Walp. 1. c. 933. ? Ambly- 



flottia emarginata, JBlume Bijd. 370. Bletia Masuca, Don Prodr. -30. 

 oduba Masuca, Serb. Ham. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards. DECCAN PENINSULA, in the 

 Ghats of Maisor and Malabar. DISTRIB. Java. 



Stem short, stout. Leaves 12-18 in., subscssile or petioled, elliptic-ovate to 

 lanceolate, glabrous or subpubescent beneath. Scape lateral, stout, with the lax-fid, 

 raceme l.j-3 ft., stout, pubescent; bracts f-1 in. ; pedicels with ovary 1|-1| in. ; 

 flowers pale or dark purple, rarely pale rose, 2-2| in. diam. ; lip hardly exceeding 

 the sepals often violet, calli yellow. Capsule 1^ in. The colour of flower and form 

 of midlobe of lip vary mucli. In C. versicolor the perianth is white with a purple 

 lip changing to yellow. Under 0. purpurea (Fol. Orchid. 6) Lindley describes 

 the leaves of 0. Masuca as differing from those of versicolor in being pilose; but in 

 his clavis of the species (p. 1) Masuca is described as glabrous. 



VAR. fulgens stem 6-3 in., leaves 12-14 by 4-5 in. at length petioled, petals 

 narrower 3-nerved, flowers 3 in. diam., sepals almost crimson, lip deep purple. C. 

 fulgcus, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 10. Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. 



14. C. purpurea, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 2491 ; in Bot. Reg. 

 1844, sub. t. 37 ; Fol. Orchid. 6 ; leaves softly sparsely hairy on both 

 surfaces, scape and few-fkl. raceme tomentose, bracts ovate shorter than the 

 long pedicels, sepals ovate or oblong-lanceolate 5-7 -nerved, petals broadly 

 oblauceolate or oblong 3-5-nerved, side lobes of lip narrow or broad, mid- 

 lobe broadly or narrowly cuneately obcordate, disk warted near the base, 

 spur very long. Walp. Ann. vi. 915; Trimen Cat. PL Ceyl. 88. C. 

 Masuca, Thw. En-urn. 308. 



CEYLON ; in the Ambagamowa district, alt. 2-1000 ft., Thwaites. 



Habit and flowers of C. Masuca, but much smaller in all its parts, and with 

 leaves hairy on both surfaces, small bracts, and slender spur as long as the 

 pedicel. 



15. C. veratrifolia, Br. in Bot. Reg. sub. tab. 573; leaves glabrous, 

 bracts large ovate-lanceolate, racemes dense-fld., flowers white, sepals 

 elliptic-obovate 5-nerved, petals broadly oblong or oblanceolate 3-5-nerved, 

 side lobes of lip oblong "obtuse, midlobe deeply divided into two linear- 

 oblong falcately recurved segments, sinus acute, disk between the side 

 lobes tubercled," spur slender. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 720; Gen. Sf Sp. 

 Orchid. 249; Fol. Orchid. 8; Bot. Mag. t. 2615; Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 283, f. 4; Walp. Ann. vi. 917. C. comosa, Reichb. f. in Linncca xix. 374. 

 C. Perrottetii, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Set: 2, xv. 68 ; Wight Ic. t. 1664; 

 Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 7. Limodorum veratrifolium, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 122. 

 ? Ambly glottis veratrif olia, Blume Bijd. 270. Bletia quadrifida, Herb. Ham . 

 Orchis triplicata, Willem. (Steud.). 



DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 6-7000 ft., from Cannra southwards. CEYLON, 

 alt. 6-7000 ft. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, Australia. 



Habit of C. Masuca, with which it is easily confounded in the Herbarium, but 

 leaves always petioled and glabrous beneath ; raceme dense-fld. ; flowers white, 

 smaller but variable in size ; spur more slender, equalling or exceeding the sepals; 

 lip longer than the sepals, very variable in the size and proportion of the lobes and 

 tubercles. Reichb. f. refers (Walp. Ann. vi. 933) his comosa (which is Lindley var. 



