CALANTHE. 67 



This plant has been known to science since the beginning of 

 the seventeenth century, through a drawing by Kaempfer, the first 

 European naturaHst who visited Japan, which he did in the capacity 

 of physician to the Dutch embassy to that country in 1G90. It 

 does not appear to have been in cultivation in European gardens 

 till the middle of the present century, when it was sent to Dr. 

 Lindley by a nurseryman of Ghent, Since then ''it has been 

 found by all collectors in the woods near the town of Nagasaki, 

 and by some at Kanagawa." It is said to be a very variable 

 species, the variation occurring in the lobing of the labellum, and 

 in the colour of the flowers. We are indebted to the Uoyal 

 Gardens at Kew for materials for description. 



0. Textorii. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, plaited and petiolate as in Calanthc 



veratnfoUa. Scapes robust, 24 or more inches high, pubescent with an 



acute sheathing bract at each joint and at the base of eacli pedicel. 



Flowers \^ inches across vertically, on white pedicels arranged in a 



corymbose raceme ; sepals oval, apiculate with three longitudinal nerves, 



white ; petals smaller, obovate with one nerve, white stained with pale 



mauve-purple, afterwards wholly white ; lip four-lobed, the basal lobes 



linear-oblong, oblique, white, the apical lobes larger, oblong, stained with 



mauve-purple that becomes paler with age. Callus tubercled, at first 



brick-red, afterwards ochre-yellow. 



Calanthe Textorii, Miquel. Prod. ji. 156, ex. Frauch. et Sav. Enum. PI. jap. II. 

 p. 26. 



Introduced by us in 1877 from Japan through Mr. Charles Maries. 



There is so little to distinguish it from the widely distributed Galanthe 



veratrifolia, that it may hereafter be reduced to a variety of that 



species. 



0. tricarinata. 



Leaves broadly oval or oval-oblong, plicate, 5 — 6 inches long. Scapes 

 erect, pubescent, as long as the leaves, loosely racemose along the distal 

 half, few flowered. Flowers an inch in diameter ; sepals oval-oblong, 

 acute, whitish tinted with pale green and with some rose-pink stains; 

 petals narrower, spathulate, acute, the basal half whitish, the apical 

 dilated half stained with rose-pink ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes large, 

 spreading, hatchet-shaped with the outer margin toothed, rose-purple 

 bordered with white ; the front lobe much smaller, oblong with a deep 

 notch in the anterior margin and three white keels on the disk, rose- 



