Supplement, $c.~\ CXLVIII, ORCHIDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 195 



lip, white with a light yellow disk spotted with brown, and pale rose sepals and 

 petals. It is a native of Sikkim at a higher elevation than the type. C. HOOKER- 

 IANA is, as stated at p. 828, the only species in which the leaves persist after flowering. 



55. C. ? PURPURASCENS, after Ic. Plant, insert 2109. 



P. 843. C. ROSSIANA. See ante p. 192. 



1. O. ALBA. After Wall. mss. add Dipodium, Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t, 329 (not of 

 Notul. iii. 406). 



P. 847. 11. PHOLIDOTA, for MICRANTHA, read PARVIFLORA. 



1. CALANTHE TRICARINATA. Add to citations Veitch Man. Orchid. Pt. vi. 69; 

 Franch. fy Savat. Enum. PL Jap. ii. 26; and after habitat add, DISTRIB. Japan. I 

 have not compared the Japanese with the Indian plant. 



P. 849. 5. C. DIPLOXIPHION. After Ic. Plant, insert t. 2111. 



P. 850. 10. C. MANNII, after HooJc.f. insert Ic. Plant, t. 2113. 

 11. C. WRAYI t. 2114. 



P. 851. 15. C. VERATRIFOLIA. To the synonyms of this species add Veitch Man. 

 Orchid. Pt. vi. 88 and C. Petri, Reichb.f. in Gard. Chron. 1880, 326. C. colorans, 

 Rf. L c. 1885, 360 ; Williams Orchid. Alb. v. t. 218. C. australis, Sort. It is 

 well figured at p. 69. 



P. 852. 16. C. VESTITA. Under Eot. Zeit. for xvi. 128 read 1853, 493. Veitch 

 (Man. Orchid. Pt. vi. 70) enumerates several subvars. ; as gigantea, Williams 

 Orchid. Alb. v. t. 211, (Syns. grandiflora, Hort. Selg. 1889, 121, and rubro- 

 oculata, Paxt. Mag. xvi. 129 ; Eegel Oartenfl. 1873, 751) ; also Var. Hegnieri, C. 

 Regnieri, Reichb. "f. in Gard. Chron. 1883, 274, with its Subvars. Sanderii and 

 Stevenii, Williams Orchid. Alb. iii. t. 134 ; also a Var. Turneri, with the elongated 

 pseudobulbs of Regnieri and the flowers of rubro-oculata, 



16/1. C. RUBENS, Ridley in Gard. Chron. 1890, i. 576 ; pseudobulbs 6 by 1 in. 

 conical silvery, scape 2 ft. woolly, sheaths about 5, raceme 14. fid. flowers pink 

 smaller than in C. vestita, bracts 1 in., pedicel with ovary 2 in., sepals sub- 

 similar dorsal f in. slender lanceolate mucronate, lateral longer-mucronate, petals 

 shorter more spathulate, lip rose-pink darker at the base adnate to the base of the 

 column erect 4-lobed, side lobes oblong erect appressed to the column, midlobe 

 deeply divided segments rounded with an interposed tooth, spur \ in. filiform curved, 

 column as in C. vestita. 



Langkawi Island, north of Penang, Curtis. I have seen no specimen. 



P. 854. 27. C. ANGUSTIFOLIA. To Syn. C. phajoides add Ic. Plant, t. 1864. 



P. 855. After 31. C. GRACILIS, add 



31/1. C. LONGIPES, Hook.f. ; stems tall, scape axillary very long stout, raceme 

 very short and flowers pubescent, lateral lobes of lip rounded crenate, midlobe 

 flabelliform margins undulate and crenate, disk with a membranous lamella on each 

 side from the base to that of the midlobe, spur 0. 



SIKZIM HIMALAYA, King. 



Stem as thick as the little finger. Leaves not seen. Scape 10-12 in., with 2-3 

 inflated sheaths ; raceme 8 10-fld. ; flowers 4| in. diam. ; sepals 5-nerved and 3-nerved 

 petals subequal, elliptic, acuminate ; lip as long as the sepals, udnate to the base, of 

 the column. I have seen but one flowering specimen of this plant, which is leafless ; its 

 habit is that of C. tubifera, but the flowers are very much smaller, the sepals broader. 



P. 856. 33. C. LABROSA, for Hook. f. substitute Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 

 1883, 44. 



P. 858. 7. ARUNDINA CANTLEYI, after Ic. Plant, insert t. 2112. 



VOL. VI. 



P. 1. Under 1. E. VIRENS, for ^robrium, read JErobrion. 

 P. 5. 14. E. DECIPIENS, in line 1, for Griff, read Kurz. 



P. 3. 8. E. EXPLANATA ; at end of diagnosis insert HooJc. Ic. Plant, t. 1882. 



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