66 CALANTHE. 



median liiif ; lip cdiivdhitc at the iiasc iiit<i a short tulx' ; lilade obloni^,, 

 rotuse at apex ; spur whitish, shorter than llic stalked ovary, at tlie base 

 of which is a lanceolate acuminate bract. 



Calanthe rosea, Benth. in Jour, Linn. Soc. XVIII. p. 309 (1881). Limatodes rosea, 



Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. III. t. 81 (1852). Fol. Orch. Limatodis, No. 2 (1854). 



Bot. Mag. t. 5312. Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Serves, XXII. t. 2294. 



First detected by Thomas Lobb in Moulmein about the year 1850^ 

 and sent by him to our Exeter nursery, where it flowered for the 

 first time in the following winter ; it was rediscovered about ten 

 years afterwards in the same province by the Rev. C. Parish, who 

 sent plants to Messrs. Low and Co. It is better known in gardens 

 under its original name of Limatodes rosea than that under which 

 it is described above, and although a beautiful orchid, it is not 

 now often seen on account of its being surpassed in the beauty of its 

 flowering by Galanthe Veitchii x and other hybrids, in whose parentage it 

 has participated, and which also have a more robust constitution. The 

 propriety of reducing it to Calanthe is thus shown by Mr. Bentham : — 

 "The facility with which Limatodes rosea can be made to hybridise 

 with Calanthe veslita. has been given as an instance of ready 

 hybridisation between two distinct genera; but the fact appears to 

 be that Limatodes rosea itself has all the characters of Calanthe, 

 and is indeed a species very nearly allied in every respect to 

 f'alanthe vestita."* 



0. striata. 



stems formed of the sheaths enveloping the liases of the leaves, 2 — 6 

 inches high. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 6 — 10 inches long, nar- 

 roW(Ml below into a long grooved petiole. Scapes stoutish, erect, 15 — 20 

 inches high, loosely racemose above, 10 — L5 flowered. Flowers 1|-— 2 

 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals brownish red, striated, bordered 

 and tipped with yellow, pale yellow at the very base, the dorsal sepal 

 oval-oblong, the lateral two oblong-lanceolate ; the petals narrow, linear- 

 spathulate ; lip three-lobed, bright yellow, the side lobes dolabriform or 

 semi-ovate, the intermediate lobe obcordate, emarginate, with three raised 

 plates that are reduced to shallow keels in the middle, the outside two 

 again enlarged in front of the cavity formed by the union of the lip 

 with the column ; spur incurved, half as long as the ovary. Column 

 terete, short, pale yellow. 



Calanthe striata, E. Br. in Bot. Reg. 1821, sub. t. 573. Lindl., Gen. et Sp. Orch. 



p. 251 (1832). Fol. Orch. Cal. No. 29. Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. jap. II. p. 



24. Bot. Mag. t. 7026. C. bicolor, Lindl. Sert. Orch. sub. t. 9. (1838). C. Sieboldii, 



Kegel's Gartenfl. 1869, t. 635. Limodorum striatum. Banks, Ic. Ksempf. t. 3. 



* Jour, of Linn. Soc. XVI II. p. 30ii. 



