856 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Calanthc. 



32. C. rosea, Sent/i. in Gen. Plant, iii, 521 ; scape from the base of a 

 large pseudobulb and many-lid, raceme villous, bracts ovate-lanceolate 

 persistent, flowers large rosy, lip with narrow convolute side lobes and a 

 large obovate oblong entire spreading midlobe, spur slender shorter than 

 the sepals. Limatodes rosea, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. t. 81 ; Fol. Orchid. 

 1 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5312 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 921. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs 4-8 iu., obpyriform or fusiform, acutely keeled and grooved, leafing 

 after flowering. Leaves 8-18 in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape 1218 in., 

 slender; pedicel and ovary l^in.j bracts -1 in., green j flowers 1^ in. across; 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate; petals oblong, acute; lip 1 in. long, base yellow edged 

 with scarlet; spur shorter, villous ; column very short, pubescent. In many respects 

 allied to C. vestita, with which it hybridizes. 



33. C- labrosa, Hoolc.f. ; habit, foliage and inflorescence of C. rosea, 

 but sepals yellow without, purplish within, as are the petals, lip flabelli- 

 form from a cuneate base retuse crisped pale purple with darker purple 

 spots at the base, and spur longer than the sepals. Limatodes labrosa, 

 Eeichl.f. in Gard. Citron. 1879, i. 202. 



TEKASSERIM ; at Moulmein (Hort. Veitch}. 

 I have seen only a portion of a raceme. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES AND SPECIES OF DOUBTFUL POSITION. 



34. C. griffantea, Hook. f. ; stem tall, leaves alternate distichous, 

 scape basal very tall and stout, raceme long puberulous very many-fid., 

 bracts short f-amplexicaul rigid revolute, flowers coriaceous, sepals and 

 petals linear-lanceolate falcate caudate-acuminate, lip very small fleshy 

 sessile opposite the stigma of the pubescent column quadrate truncate 

 apiculate puberulous, side lobes mere coriaceous auricles, spur obsolete. 



PERAK ; in dense jungles, King's Collector, Wray. 



Stem 2 ft., as thick as the middle finger. Leaves 6-10 in., sessile, lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Scape with raceme 3-1 ft., as thick as the stem ; bracts very broad 

 with subulate tips ; pedicels very short; flowers 1 in^diam., pubescent, yellow spotted 

 with crimson; sepals spreading, many-nerved; petals narrower; sides of lip decurrent 

 on the short almost hispid column; anther hispid, 1-celled ; poilinia 8, each group of 

 4 consists of 2 large subhemispheric placed face to face, and 2 very much smaller, all 

 attached to one viscus. A remarkable plant, black when dry. 



C. CABINATA, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 183 (not taken up in Fol. Orchid.), is 

 founded on Willdenow's Limodorum carinatum, and that again on llheede's xii.t. 26, 

 which is possibly C. nutans, L. 



C. SULPHUREA and C. TRICOLOR, Hort. Huegel, in Heyne Nomencl. ii. 105, are 

 names only. 



38. ARUNDXNA, Blume. 



Terrestrial erect herbs with rigid terete sheathed simple stems, and 

 narrow grassy distichous leaves. Flowers large, red, in terminal erect 

 stiff simple or branched racemes or panicles. Sepals free, spreading, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, flat, many-nerved. Petals broader, many-nerved. Lip 

 large, broad, sessile on the base of the column and embracing it. Coluu'ut 

 long, slender, narrowly winged ; foot 0. An liter-cells 2, poilinia 8 in com- 

 pressed superposed pairs cohering by a viscus. Species 6-8, Indian, Malayan 

 and Chinese. 



