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to 2 in. bread. Peduncle and raceme much longer than the leaves; the peduncle with 
several scattered lanceolate acuminate bracts; the raceme 3 to 6 in. long, laxly-flowered, 
the rachis puberulous. Flowers puberulous externally, lavender-coloured, 1:2 in. across; 
bract lanceolate, acuminate, as long as or rather shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals 
ovate-lanceolate, with broad bases, acuminate, spreading, Petals linear, acute, spreading, 
faleate. Lip adnate to the base of the column, oblong in general outline, shortly clawed, 
3-lobed; basal lobes flat, falcately oblong, blunt, with two narrow calli on the disc 
between them, their apices pointing forward; terminal lobe without a callus, connected 
to the basal by a straight narrow isthmus, ovate-orbicular with a long apiculus, its edges 
coarsely erose. Column short, thick. Ал ег pointed. Pollinia 8, clavate, attached in 
fours to two caudicles aud these to a triangular gland. Capsule narrowly elliptic, 1:25 
in. long. Lindl. Fol. Orch. 2; Walp. Anu. VI, 912; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 848. 
Bletia spec., Griff. Іс. Pl. Asiat., t. 313A. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 6,000 to 7,000 feet; in flower during July and 
August; Pantling, No. 181. Westward along the range to Simla and eastwards to 
Bhutan. Also in the Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) No. 5274, Mann, Gammie. 
Naga Hills, Assam; Prain. 
The flowers are of a beautiful, nearly uniform, pale lavender colour, the lip some- 
times being of a deeper shade with a little white near the base; the column with 
much white on it, and with yellow and purple markings in front. 
Prats 224,.—Calanthe puberula, Lindl, Pseudo-bulbs, leaves and inflorescence; of natural size. 
Fig. 1 lip, 2 apex of ovary, column with anther in situ, З pollinia; all enlarged. | 
4. OALANTHE Manni, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 850. 
Pseudo-síem about 3 in. long, pseudo-bulb small. Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, tapering 
gradually into the long petiole, the apex acute, the lowermost one sheathed at the base; 
length of adult blade 9 or 10 in, breadth 15 to 2 in. Peduncle from amongst the 
young leaves, pubescent, about 9 in. long; the raceme half as long as the peduncle, 
few-flowered, lax. Flowers only ‘3 in. long, deflexed after expansion; floral brací minute, 
lanceolate, shorter than the pedicel of the stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, connivent, 
pubescent externally, ovate-oblong, sub-acute, concave. Petals oblong, acute, not 
spreading. Lip slightly shorter than the sepals, shortly spurred, adhering to the column 
almost to its apex and forming with it a long sac, 3-lobed; basal lobes large, broad, 
truncate, erect; terminal lobe deflexed, subreniform, entire; upper surface with two 
tubercled ridges from the base to the middle of the anterior lobe and a third shorter 
one between them in their upper half. Column short, dilated towards the apex. <Anther 
pointed. Pollinia unknown. 
Sikkim, at Rungbee, elevation 6,000 feet; Lachen Valley, 7,000 feet; Pantling, 
No. 311. Western Himalaya; below Ranikhet in Kumaon, J. F. Duthie. Khasia Hills; 
alt. 4,000 feet, C. B. Clarke, Rita. 
The colour of the flowers is dull brown. This is a self-fertile species. Mr. Pantling 
was unable to obtain pollinia for figuring, as in all the flowers of the only living 
specimen found by him, they had been more cr less absorbed by the stigmas, the 
clinandrium having apparently become absorbed. 
