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and lateral .sepals pencilled with rose-caimiue ; the lip deep carmine 

 with a crimson-purple blotch on the disk that is spread over the 

 column. 



var.— Turneri. 



Pseudo-bulbs as in the variety Regnieri but somewhat smaller ; scapes 

 erect, the flowers like those of the sub-variety rubro-oculata, but 

 appearing later in the season. 



C. vestita Turneri, supra. C. Turneri, Hort. 



SUb.-var. — ninalis, flowers wholly white. 

 To that indefatigable and zealous Indian botanist Dr. Wallich, 

 whose name appears so frequently in these pages, science is also 

 indebted for the first discovery of this beautiful Calanthe^ it having 



Calaiithe vestita rubro-oculata. 



been detected by him at Tavoy in Tenasserim soon after the 

 annexation of the province in 1826. Later it was gathered by 

 Griffith at Mergui in the same province, but it was not till 1848 

 that it was introduced into European gardens, when Dr. Kane, of 

 Exmouth, sent from Moulmein to our Exeter firm two of the 

 forms described above, viz., that with the yellow spot on the lip, 

 usually regarded as the type, and its sub-variety with the red-purple 

 spot. Shortly afterwards these two forms and the variety Turneri, 

 named in compliment to the late Mr. J. A. Turner, of Pendlebury, 

 near Manchester, one of the most ardent orchid amateurs of that 

 time, were sent to Exeter from the same locality by Thomas Lobb. 



