174 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
14. Слтахтне Warreana, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. LXV, pt. 2, 121. 
Pseudo-bulbs only 1°5 in. long, conical, with annular scars. eaves linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, much narrowed towards the sessile base, 2 to 3 feet long and 15 in 
broad at the widest part. Scape stout, together with the densely-flowered raceme 
2 to 4 feet long, puberulous and with a few short scattered sheaths. Flowers "75 to 
1 іп, across, yellowish ; floral bract 1 in. ог more in length, linear, acuminate, deflexed, 
longer than the ovaries. Sepals *4 in. long, ovate, blunt, 3- to 5-nerved, reflexed and 
resting upon the stalked ovary. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, acute, narrowed towards the 
base, erect. Lip very short, sessile, adnate to the whole length of the column; the lamina 
transversely elliptic or quadrate, without lateral lobes, its apex bilobulate; the lobules 
reflexed, their margins eatire or sub-crenate ; the upper surface with five papillate ridges 
running along the centre from base to apex. Column short, stout; stigmatic surfaces 
double, one on each side of the entrance to the spur. Spur exceeding the stalked ovary, 
sub-clavate, slightly curved, sparsely pubescent, the inner wall with hair-like papille 
іп its upper half. Pollinia 8, unequal, in groups of Tour; sub-sessile оп an oblong 
gland derived from the stigma. 
Sikkim, at Choongthang, elevation 6,000 feet; in flower during May; Pantling, 
No. 365. | 
This species comes nearest to C. Manni Hook. fil, which has, however, a very 
short spur. This is as yet a little-known plant, only a few specimens having hitherto 
been gathered. Тһе flowers аге sweet-scented. Тһе lip is of a bright yellow and the 
column is nearly white, the other parts of the flower being yellowish-green. We 
have named it after Mr. Claude White, Political Agent in Sikkim, who has given us 
much help in obtaining botanical specimens from Independent Sikkim. 
Рглте 235.— Calanthe Whiteana, King and Pantling. А leaf and a raceme; [of natural size. 
Entire piant; reduced in size, Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bract, ovary and flower, side view, so as to show 
the spur, 3 column seen from the front with the stigma (s), 4 section of apex of ovary, column, 
anther and spur, the stigma "marked (s), 5 anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
15. CALANTHE DENSIFLORA, Lindl, in Wall Cat., 7844; Gen. and Spec. 
Orch., 250. 
| Rhizome consisting of jointed fusiform . annular lengths about 2 in. long, each 
producing at its thick end a pseudo-stem and flowering scape. Stom very short. Leaves 
about three, narrowly elliptic, acute, tapering at the base to the short broad sheathing 
petiole ; length 2 to 3 feet, breadth 3 to 5 in., petiole 2 to 6 in., sometimes absent. 
‘Scape from the rhizome behind the stem, 4 to 12 in. long, erect, stout, bearing three or 
four broad tubular acute inflated sheaths 1 in. or more in length.  Raceme 2:5 to 3 in. 
long, at first sub-globose, afterwards cylindrical, densely-flowered, sometimes branching: 
Flower (to the end of the spur) *8 in. long, and in diam. "5 in.; bracé thin, elliptic, acute, 
conduplicate, longer than the abruptly stalked ovary, the bracts of the lowest flowers often 
much longer. Spur nearly as long as the ovary and its pedicel, cylindric, slightly 
inflated towards the apex. Sepals and petals connivent, sub-equal, oblanceolate, acute. 
Lip adnate to the column from its middle ; the basal lobes large, sub-triangular, erect, 
and with two large semi-erect rounded lamella between them; apical lobe quadrate, 
