192 VANDES. 
the column, 38-lobed; basal lobes faleately ovate, obtuse; midlobe rather shorter, 
deeply bifid, with three rows of prominent warts on its disk: spur cylindric, a little 
longer than the pedicelled ovary, puberulous and with a few white hairs at its 
entrance. Column broad. Pollinia 8, cohering in fours to a granular viscus, Stigma 
divided into two segments at the entrance to the spur. Ovary minutely pubescent. 
Western Himalaya, Falconer (Kew Distrib. No. 1054); near Mussoorie in shady | 
forest at about 6,000 feet, Mackinnon (Duthie’s Nos. 21742 and 22714). 
Falconer’s specimen in the Kew Herbarium is very imperfect and in bud only. 
Ртатв 104. Calanthe pachystalix 8070704. f.—A plant,—of natural size, Fig. 1, а 
single flower seen from above; 2, ditto with the sepals and petals removed; 8, the 
lip; 4, column; 5 and 6, back and front views of anther; 7, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
7. CALANTHE PLANTAGINEA Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7346. 
Siem 75 to 25 cm., enclosed within long tubular sheaths. Leaves 2—3 dm. long 
and 4 to 9 сш. broad, usually enlarging as the fruit ripens, oblanceolate or 
elliptic-lanceolate, tapering below into the long petioles. Peduncle from the axil of 
one of the developing leaves and overtopping them, stout, many-flowered ; pedicel 
with ovary about 2°5 cm., very slender; bracts small, lanceolate. lowers drooping, 
about 3 cm. across, lilac or white, sweet-scented. Sepals oblanceolate, acuminate, 3—5- 
nerved, glabrous. Petals similar to-the sepals but smaller, 3-nerved. Zip about as long 
as the sepals, purple, the disk with 3 slender lamellæ ; side lobes rhomboid-obovate, 
subfaleate ; midlobe cuneately reniform, apiculate. Spur very slender, as long as or 
longer than the ovary. Rostellum of two projecting plates. Lindl, Gen. and Sp. 
Orch. 250; Sert. Orch, t. 24; Fol. Orch. 9; Walp, Ann. vi, 920; Royle Ill. Him. Bot. 
366 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 853; Collett Fl. Siml. 494. 
Punjab Himalaya in Chamba at 7,000 feet, Lace No. 1898; Garhwál at 9,000 feet, 
Royle Herb. ; Mussoorie range, Falconer; in shady forest below Mussoorie from 4,000 
to 6,000 feet, Mackinnon (Duthie’s Nos. 21741, 22716); Tonse Valley at 6,500 feet, 
Duthie 24149; Kumaon at 9,000 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 17. Flowers in 
March and April. It extends eastwards to Nepal and Bhutan, 
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Puare 105. Calanthe plantaginea Lindl—A plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, a single 
flower; 2, lip; 3, column with lower part of lip and upper portions of ovary and spur 
attached; 4, pollinia ;—a// enlarged. 
13. Eulophia R. Brown. 
Terrestrial glabrous herbs with fleshy tubers or rhizomes, rarely pseudo-bulbous. 
Leaves appearing -with or after the flowers, usually plaited. Scape generally lateral. 
Flowers in racemes, rarely panicled, Sepals and petals free, spreading, often sub-equal. 
Lip adnate to the base of the column or to its foot, saceate or shortly spurred at 
the base, usually 3-lobed, the lateral lobes erect and embracing the column, disk 
usually ridged or crested. Column with or without a foot, its apex entire and often 
oblique, the margins sometimes winged or lobed. Anther terminal, often with two 
apical processes, and its lip often toothed, 2-celled. Pollinia 2, globose, attached by 
