120 VANDER. 
Duthies collector No. 24150; mostly in damp shady forests at elevations between 4,000 
and 6,000 feet. Flowers during July and August. I have seen no specimens from 
Kumaon or Nepal, but it is found in Sikkim, Bhutan, on the Khasia and Naga Hills, in 
Assam and eastwards to China. 
3. CALANTHE Manntt Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind, v, 350. 
Pseudo-bulb small; pseudo-stem about 75 ст. long. Leaves two or three, oblanceolate- 
oblong, acute, tapering gradually into the long petiole, the lowermost. one sheathed at 
the base; length of adult blade up to 2:55 dm., its breadth 3:5 to 5 em. Pedunele from 
the axil of a young leaf, pubescent, about 2:3 dm. long; raceme half as long as the 
peduncle, few-flowered, lax. Flowers only about 13 mm. long, deflexed after expansion; 
floral bract minute, lanceolate, shorter than the pedicel of the stalked ovary. Sepals 
and petals chocolate-brown. Sepals sub-equal, connivent, ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, 
concave, pubescent externally. Petals linear-spathulate, not spreading, glabrous, Lip 
yellow with a blotch of red at the apex of the terminal lobe, a little shorter than the 
sepals, adhering to the column almost to its apex and forming with it a long sac, 
3-lobed; basal lobes erect, large, broad, truncate; terminal lobe sub-reniform, entire ; 
upper surface with three or four continuous tubercled ridges extending from the base 
to the middle of the terminal lobe; spur very short. Column short, dilated towards the 
apex. Anther pointed; pollinia clavate, attached in fours to two caudicles and these 
to a triangular gland. King & Раш. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 167, 
%. 225. 
In the neighbourhood of Tehri in Garhwál at 6,000 feet, Mackinnon’s collector ; 
below Ranikhet in Калат, 5-6,000 feet, Duthie No. 5996. Flowers in Мау. It is 
found also in Sikkim and on the Khasia Hills between 4,000 and 7,000 feet. 
The pollinia, described above, were obtained from young flowers. This species may, as Sir 
George King suggests, be self-fertile. 
4, CALANTHE BREVICORNU Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7338. 
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Pseudo bulbs small, ovoid, pointed, about 2°5 сш. long. Pseudo-stem 5 to 10 cm. stout, 
with wide sheaths. Leaves usually three, sub-equal, oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, 
slightly tapering to the wide sheathing base, stalked when adult; length of blade 
2-5 to 3 dm., breadth 6:5 to 9 cm. Inflorescence longer than the leaves, the pedunele 
with a few short scattered bracts; raceme 3 dm, long, laxly flowered; rachis, ovaries 
and outside of sepals puberulous. Flowers 555 to 4 em. across; floral bract narrowly 
lanceolate, half as long as the stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, oblong lanceolate, acute, 
spreading. Petals shorter than the sepals, lanceolate. Lip 3-lobed, attached to the 
lower half of the column; basal lobes oblong, blunt, diverging; terminal lobe 
sub-obovate with a broad emarginate apiculate apex and irregularly toothed edges, 
contracted at its junction with the basal lobes; upper surface with three tubercled 
fleshy lamellæ running from the base and increasing in height to near the apex ; 
spur short, broad, blunt, straight, its mouth lined with retroflexed hairs. Column 
short. Anther beaked; pollinia clavate, attached to a common pedicel and gland. Lindl, 
Gen. and Sp, Orch. 251; Sert. Orch. t. 9; Fol. Oreh. 3; Walp. Ann. vip 9194 
