CALANTHE. 63 



Calanthe brevicornu. 



Leaves oval-oblong or lanceolate, petiolate, acute, 9 — 12 inches long. 

 Scapes as long as or longer than the leaves, erect, racemose above, many- 

 flowered. Flowers 1 — IJ mch in diameter with very short pedicel and 

 ovary ; sepals and petals spreading, brownish purple with a paler mid- 

 nerve and margin, whitish at the base ; the dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, 

 acute, the lateral two lanceolate, and at right angles to it ; petals 

 similar to the lateral sepals but smaller ; lip sub-panduriform, emarginate, 

 red purple margined with white ; disk with three raised lines of which 

 the middle one is the longest, narrow and yellow on tlie basal side, 

 much dilated and red in front ; spur very short. 



Calanthe brevicornu, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 251 (1832). Sert. Orch. t. 9 

 (1838). Fol. Orch. Cal. No. 4. 



First discovered in Nepal, in 1821 — 22, by Dr. Wallich, from 



whose drawing of a plant in situ Dr. Lindley's plate in the 8erta:n 



Orchidaceum was copied. Many years afterwards it was gathered by 



Sir J. D. Hooker in Sikkim, whence it was recently introduced to 



the Eoyal Gardens at Kew. The colour of the flowers is peculiar, 



and agrees nearly in this respect with the Japanese Calanthe discolor 



figured in the Botanical Register for 1840, t. 55. 



0. curculigoides. 



Leaves elliptic lanceolate, acute, 12 — IS inches long. Scapes half as 

 long as the leaves, sheathed below l)y adherent brownish bracts, densely 

 racemose above. Flowers partially opening, | inch across, pale orange- 

 yellow with a red blotch on the lip ; sepals and petals oblanceolate, acute ; 

 lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes rotund, erect, the intermediate lobe oblong, 

 acute, reflexed ; spur hooked. 



Calanthe curculigoides, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 251 (1832). Sot. Reg. 1847, t. 8. 

 Fol. Orch Cal. No. 10. Bot. Mag. t. 6104. Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 349. 



First discovered by Griffith in the Malay peninsula, and shortly 



afterwards introduced from Malacca by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose 



nursery at Hackney it flowered in 1845. It has since been gathered 



at Penang, Singapore and other places. It appears to have been 



lost to cultivation for many years till its re -introduction in 1873—4 



again brought it under the notice of horticulturists. Its dense 



raceme of scarcely half-expanded, orange-coloured flowers render it 



singular among the cultivated Calanthes. The specific name was 



suggested by the resemblance of its foliage to that of some species 



of Curculigo. 



C. labrosa. 



Pseudo-bulbs sub-conical, angulate, 2 — 3 inches long, with a transversa 



