76 CALANTHE. 



SUb.-varS. — alba, flowers wholly white; versicolor, flowers variable, some 

 rose, some Avhite, others with one or more of the segments rose, and 

 the remainder white. 



Raised by Dominy at oixr Exeter nursery in 1856, the tirst hybrid 

 of the VESTiTiE section obtained, and one of tlie most useful and 

 popular of winter-flowering Calantlies ; it is the type of a group of 

 hybrids in all of which Calanthe rosea has participated in the paren- 

 tage, either directly or mediately through C. Veitchii. The white 

 form was also originally raised by Dominy, unknown to himself at 



Calanthe Veitchii. 



the time, at our Exeter nursery, whence it was sold to jNIr. Wentworth 

 Buller, of Strete Raleigh, Devonshire, for the typical form ; at the dis- 

 persion of Mr. Buller's collection, it passed into the hands of the late 

 Mr. John Day. The Avhite form has since been raised by Mr. J. T. 

 Barber, Mr. Norman C. Cookson (C. Cookso7iii), and by Sir Charles 

 Strickland, Bart.* 



Vebatrifoli^ Hybrids. 



Calanthe Dominii. 



C. Masiira X O. furcaia. 



A robust plant with the habit of Calanthe Mamtca. Flower stems 

 nearly as in G. Masuca, and terminating in a large corymbose, many- 

 flowered raceme. Flowers 2 inches in diameter, intermediate between 

 those of the two parents, light mauve-purple suffused Avith white, the 

 lip deeper in colour than the other segments and with a yellow three- 

 toothed callus at its base. 



Calanthe Dominii, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1858, p. 4. Bot. Macj. t. 5042. 

 * Gard. Chron. VII. s. 3 (1890), p. 132. 



