CALANTHE. (8) EUCALANTHE. 
Flowers delicate lilac, ee to Wight, the lip as a mere? tinge, 
hey are twice as large . veratrifolia, and appear in all cases 
the sepals and petals ples pe presenting a somewhat campanlate appear- 
ance, whereas in that ee — lateral sepals are completely refiexed. 
Differs from C0. purpurea and its allies in the lateral Tobes of the lip being as 
long as tie 1 middle one or aly 80, 
* 25. C. veratrifolia. &. Br. in Bot. es» 720. LO., 
no. 1. —— 1¢., t. 283, fig. 4. 4200 BS 
(A) wers pure white 
@) discolor. A dwait form with a dirty brownish lip, and a pale purple 
(C) a Flowers white changing to buff. 
Ambiygotis flava. Blum rit 370. t. 64. 
Flos triplicatus. Rumph. A pV bots 82; 7, 2 
(D) comosa. Raceme very den bracts broad, very "downy, 
C. comosa, = b. f.m Lin; . 374, 
—Mrs. Walker; ConTINENT OF r INDIA; ; B, Ceylon—Macrae ; 
C, Ausrraria, in the Illawarra distri trict, South of Port 
Jackson—A. Cunningham ; Amporya—Rum mphius ; Java— 
ume; nee “ gyton—J. D. Hooker; Ninenerries—RKchb. 
<. we v. 
This is a very oe ss plant, varying so hat in appearance 
aot to soil, p and climate. The varieties above enum merated m migh 
de inconverienee ed disregarded, or they m ight be greatly m — a 
The size of the bracts, the denseness of = inflorescence, and the degree of 
downin watines are very variable circumstance 
26. C, gracilli 
C. racemo grac cillimo pubescente, bracteis ovatis acutissimis, 
sepalis lateralibus subrotundis reflexis petalis angustioribus, 
labelli 5-lobi laciniis linearibus obtusis, verrucis paucis sub 
cucullo plicato latentibus, calcare recto labello longiore. 
C. veratrifolia, Hooker in Beechey's Voyage, p. 71. 
Wild in the Soctzry Istanps—Beechey, (v. s. sp. in hb. Hooker.) 
' with a narrow imes as much as eighteen 
inches long, with straight narrow by no dulated b 
very littledown. The flowers are much like those of C. veratrifolia, the 
are roundish, -sided and while the petals are 
narrower and three-veined ; and the crest at the base of mates consists ‘3 * 
beneath which lurk | a few warts, i rwards 
narrow elevated plate. By this circumstance it is acres distinguished 
from C C. veratrifolia, oni apace a of its different habit. The only leaf in Sir 
W. Hooker’s herbarium is ee es long, by three-and-a-half 
broad, and seems to to be smooth « on both sides. 
inter- 
media alté oe ¥ eallo maximo carnoso tuberculato juxta 
27. C. alismesfolia. : — Reais 
C. foliis Heer e ee mage subtus glauces- 
centibus, labelli quadrilobi laciniis lateralibus linearibus i 
