CALANTHE. | 121 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 848; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale, viii, 
168, t, 227. 
Garhwál at 5,000 to 6,000 feet, Duthie No. 1265 (1879); Mackinnon’s collector 
[Duthies No. 24150 (a)]; Bok Hill, Duthie’s collector No. 24150; Kumaon, 7. Anderson. 
Flowers during May and June. Extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and the 
Naga Hills, 
The colour of the flowers is dull purple or brick red, relieved by lines of white on the midribs 
of the sepals and petals and on the edges of the lip, the lamelle of the lip are streaked with 
yellow. The outer surfaces of the parts of the perianth are all strongly flushed with white. 
5. CALANTHE ALISMAEFOLIA Lindl. Fol. Orch. 8. 
Pseudo-bulbs thin, cylindric, tapering to the apex, marked with several concentric 
rings, somewhat curved, 25 to 5 cm. long. Leaves 1'2 to 1'8 dm. long. broadly 
elliptic, acuminate, rather abruptly narrowed into the long channelled petiole, edges 
Scape about as long as the leaves, clothed with a few distant sheathing 
bracts. Inflorescence corymbose in flower and becoming racemose as the fruit ripens, 
puberulous. Flowers 2 cm. long, floral bract large, ovate, acuminate, shorter than the 
shortly stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, suborbicular erecto-patent, clothed outside 
with short coarse purple hairs. Petals about as large as the sepals, subrhomboidal, 
subacute. Jip obovate, adnate by its base to the whole length of the column, 3-lobed; 
basal lobes narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, somewhat falcate, resting оп the 
terminal lobe and pointing forwards; terminal lobe broad and with a large yellow 
callus at its base; its apex bilobulate, the lobules broad, rounded, and with crenulate 
edges, the sinus deep and apiculate at its base; spur nearly as loug as the ovary and 
lying parallel to it, cylindric. Column very short, with the callosities of the lip closely 
applied to it. Anther acuminate; pollinia clavate, attached directly to an ovate acute 
gland. Stigma divided into two halves by the entrance to the spur. Capsule with 
pedicel 4 cm. long, clavate, prominently ridged. Walp, Ann. vi, 918; Hook. f. КІ, 
Br. Ind. v, 849; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard, Cale. viii, 170, t. 230. 
Below Mussoorie in hot valleys, Falconer Nos. 1055, 1056 (Kew Distrib.) Duthie 
Хо. 24148. Flowers during July and August. Found eastwards in the Sikkim Terai 
and on the Khasia Hills. 
The colour of the perianth is white, except for a tinge of green on the tips of the sepals 
outside and & patch of pale violet at the base of the lip. 
undulate. 
6. CALANTHE PACHYSTALIX Reichb. f. in Hook. f. Fl, Br. Ind. v, 850, 
Stem short, swollen at the base, giving off many stout fibrous roots. Leaves many, 
3—6 dm. long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering gradually into the sheath, plicate, 
nerves prominent.  Znforescence from Ње ах! of a sheath, usually overtopping the 
leaves, the flowering portion 2—3 dm. long, rachis and pedicels puberulous ; bracts 
lanceolate, deflexed, about 8 mm, long, the upper ones smaller, Flowers in rather 
dense racemes, 2 cm. across, greenish yellow, subsecund, deflexed after expansion, 
Calyx lobes reflexed; dorsal 5-nerved, broader than the lateral ones and the petals. 
Petals spathulate, obtuse, 3-nerved, 9 mm. long. Zip adnate to the whole length of 
Ann. Roy. Вот. Garb., Carc, Vor. IX. 
