CALANTHE. (6) EUCALANTHE. 
The Natal plant which Mr. Reichenbach regards as a variety, I have seen 
nowhere. It would seem to have a more slender habit, shorter a and a 
finer spur. 
* 16. C. versicolor, Lindi. Sert. Orch., t.42. Bot. Reg. 
1844, sub t. 37. 
Wild in the East Invtzs ; locality unknown, (v. v. ¢.) 
Flowers white, with a purple lip, changing to yellow. ~ yton ‘oe Ceca 
* 17. O. Masuea. ZO., no. 3. Bot. Reg. 1844, 4 37. 
Bot. Mag., t. 4541. 
C. emarginata, Wight. ic. 3. t, 918. 
Wild in Nerat—Wallich ; Sikkim—Cathcart ; Nr ILGHERRIES 
—Lobb, (v. v. ¢. et 8. 8, sp.) 
Flowers large, purple, with three long rugged white or orange-coloured 
callosities on the base of the lip. The oe and Java localities indicated in 
must now be expunged, as uncertain 
* 18, 6 purpurea. LO., no. 2. Bot. Reg. 1844, sub t. 37. 
Wild in Cryzon— Macrae, Walker, (v. v. ¢. et ie. pict.) 
The three preceding species are very — > — _— — 
C. ver. soles the wild locality of which is unknown, may be a mere 
. Masuca. What differences I most rely upon will appear from the yicisefone 
contrast :— 
versicolor, Masuca. purpurea, 
Leaves. . smooth on both sides. pilosebeneath. softly hairy beneath 
Clos 3s 255 wc ss, OPO 4265. ee. 
leafy, larger than the shorterthan the 
0 So ees pedicels . , 
Bracrs as long as pedicels. 
go at white 2 4°). °° “pepe (ae 
ioe TOM | 5 + 5» oe OR. 4 5 
Do. _ side- 
lobes, .f CPlique . . - - + oblique. - . round. 
nearly straight, not curved, longer nearly straight, 
Srtl- ss longer than the than the pedi- shorter than the 
pedicel . . . ce. = « pedicel, 
I should add that for the characters of C. purpurea I am obliged to re! 
chiefly upon an Indian drawing, all the Ceylon specimens that I have — 
being much decayed and hardly examinable, except a small meals 
one in Sir W. Hooker's Herbarium, collected b zd Mrs, Walker. 
19. ©, uneata, : 
C. rae o angusto, bracteis folincaie ovario /multd ee Sectthos, 
labelli basi ‘hispidi lobis lnteralibus eae intermedio 
au calcare uncinato. 
