512 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
C. sTRIATA (streaked). Flowers large, yellow, in erect spikes 1 foot 
high. Evergreen. 
. VERATRIFOLIA (Veratrum-leaved). Leaves with many margins, 
2 feet long. Flowers pure white, the sepals green-tipped, and the disk 
of labellum studded with golden papille; in erect spikes 2 to 3 feet high: 
May to July. 
C. vEsTITA (clothed). Flowers pure white, numerous, in a nodding 
spike. Introduced from India. There are many varieties; among them 
var. igneo-oculata, which has the lip and the base of column blotched 
with fiery red (Borneo, 1876); var. luteo-oculata has a blotch of yellow 
in the middle of the lip; var. oculata-gigantea (Borneo, 1886), flowers 
3 inches across with fiery-red blotch on the base of the lip; var. rubro- 
oculata, flowers 2 inches across with a blotch of rich crimson; var. 
Turneri has larger flowers with rose-coloured eye. 
C. Domintt (Dominy’s). Flowers lilac with deep 
purple lip. 
C. VeEIrcuit (Veitch’s). Flowers bright rose with white throat, 
numerously produced in erect spikes 3 feet high ; winter. 
Calanthes are most beautiful Orchids when properly 
managed. After the flowers have faded the pseudo-bulbs 
should be kept dry on a shelf until new growth pushes at the base. 
They should then be shaken out of the old soil, the roots cut to a length 
of about 2 inches, and then potted singly in 3-inch pots, or in threes in 
5-inch pots, ina compost of loam, leaf-mould, roughly-broken peat, a little 
silver-sand, and some dried cow manure. They should then be placed 
near the glass in a warm house. Until they are well rooted they require 
very little water, but when they are well started they require both 
heat and water in plenty. When the flowers appear they should be 
removed to a cooler situation, where the flowers will last for a long 
period. When these have passed, the evergreen species must still be 
supplied with plenty of water, and allowed to grow. They are propa- 
gated by division, and by separating the suckers. This genus is 
specially worthy of attention from the amateur. 
Hybrids. 
Cultivation. 
CH@LOGYNES 
Natural Order OrcHIDEX. Genus Celogyne 
Ca@LOGYNE (Greek koilos, hollow, and gyne, a female: in allusion to 
the deeply hollowed-out stigma. A genus of about fifty handsome stove 
