CALANTHE. 119 
1. CALANTHE TRICARINATA Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 7339. 
Pseudo-bulb 2 to 95 cm., broadly ovoid, marked with distinct concentric rings. 
Leaves two to four, 2 to 3:8 dm. long and 5 to 75 cm. іп breadth, oblanceolate, 
acute, usually stalked. njlorescence from the developing pseudo-bulb, sheathed by the 
young leaves, and rising from the axil of one of them, longer than the adult leaves; 
raceme laxly flowered, shorter than the peduncle; rachis and stalked ovaries puberulous. 
Flowers 2 to 2°5 em. across; bracts about half as long ав the ovary with pedicel. 
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 5—7-nerved, green, spreading. Petals clawed, lanceolate, 
acuminate, a little smaller than the sepals. Zip adnate to the whole length of the 
column, 3-lobed, broadly oblong, decurved, saccate at the base, the mouth of the sac 
clothed with long white deflexed hairs; basal lobes suborbicular or obliquely spathulate, 
white tinged with orange-red towards their apices; terminal lobe 10 mm. long, orange- 
red, margins deflexed, much undulate and erose; the disk with a fleshy eallus divided into 
three prominent crenulate ridges. Column short, thick, anterior surface hispid, Lindl. 
Gen. and Sp. Orch. 18; Fol. Orch. 2; Walp. Ann. vi, 912; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 
847; King & Pantl. in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 166 (excl. t. 223); Collett 
Fl. Siml 494; Rolfe in Journ. Linn, бос, xxxvi, 26. б, occidentalis Lindl, Fol. 
Orch. 3; Walp. Ann. l. с. 848. 
Abundant in the temperate parts of the Western Himalaya from Hazára to Kumaon, 
at elevations between 5,000 and 9,000 feet, especially in forests. Flowers April to 
June. It extends eastwards to Nepal, and is also found in China. 
Рглте 103. Calanthe tricarinata Lind/.—Inflorescence and one leaf,—of natural size 
Fig. 1, lower portion of plant (reduced); 2, single flower; 3, ditto with sepals and 
petals removed; 4, lip; 5, column; 6, anther; 7, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
9 CALANTHE PUBERULA Lindl. іп Wall. Cat. 7342. 
Pseudo-bulb small, conical from a broadly ovoid base, about 2:5 cm. long. Leaves 
Ave to seven, very unequal in size, the lower often reduced to sheaths; upper ones 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, slightly narrowed to the broad loosely sheathing 
base, 10 to 15 em. long. Inflorescence much longer than the leaves, the peduncle with 
many scattered lanceolate acuminate bracts; raceme 7:0 to 15 cm. long, laxly flowered, 
the rachis puberulous. Flowers 2°75 сш. across, lavender-coloured, puberulous externally ; 
bract lanceolate, acuminate, not longer than the stalked ovary. Sepals spreading, 
ovate-lanceolate. Petals spreading, narrowly falcate, acute. Lip adnate to the base 
of the column, 3-lobed, shortly clawed; basal lobes flat, falcately oblong, blunt, with 
two narrow calli on the disk between them, their apices pointing forward; terminal lobe 
without calli, connected with the basal by a straight narrow isthmus, ovate-orbicular, 
apiculate, its edges coarsely erose. Column short, thick. Anther pointed; pollinia 8, clavate, 
attached in fours to two caudicles and these to a triangular gland. Capsule narrowly 
elliptic, 3 сш. long. Lindi. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 352; Fol. Orch. 2; Walp. Ann. vi, 
912; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 848; King & Pantl in Ann. Roy. Bot, Gard. Calc. 
vii, 166, t. 224; Collett Fl. Siml. 494; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. бос, xxxvi, 26. 
Bietia sp., Griff. 1с. Pl. As. t. 313A. | 
Simla Hills; below Ndgkanda, 7. Thomson; Chachpur Valley 5-6,000 feet, Duthie 
Хо. 21076; Jaunsár, Osmaston; Garhwál, Falconer; Kulni Valley, Duthie; Bok Hil, 
