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for its very fleshy flowers, which are light yellow spotted with brown, 
Warscewiczella discolor, with showy violet-purple flowers, Cypripedium 
hirsutissimum and Druryi, both very attractive species, while among showy 
species we may mention the brilliant Renanthera Imschootiana just 
beginning to expand. Two plants of the rare Myrmecophila tibicinis are 
throwing up spikes. Pleurothallis scapha and Birchenallii are two allied 
species having long very scuminate sepals, and P. stenosepala, with solitary 
green flowers, has the pedical pressed closely to the leaf, but, curious to note, 
the mature capsule becomes erect. Stelis omalosantha is a Brazilian 
species with very hairy flowers, and both Physosiphon Loddigesii and P. 
Lindleyi bear numerous spikes. Notes on a number of the smaller species 
are held over. 
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N interesting Himalayan Calanthe is flowering in the collection oH. ]. 
Elwes, Esq., Colesborne Park, Gloucestershire. It was iutroduced 
from Sikkim four years ago, and proves indentical with C. chloroleuca, 
Lindl. It is one of the evergreen set, and bears an erect raceme, the 
flowers having yellowish green sepals and petals, and a four-lobed, pure 
white lip, stained with light yellow at the base. The species was described 
in 1854, from materials collected in Sikkim by Sir J. D. Hooker (Lindl. 
Fol. Orch., Cal. p. 10), being localised as hot valleys at 2000 feet. It has 
since been collected by Treutler at 6000 to 8000 feet. It is figured in Ann. 
R. Bot. Gard. Calc., v. p. 31, t- 45. Lindley made a second species, C. 
galeata, (I. c., p. 5), based on a drawing by Hooker, and localised as ‘‘ Wild 
in Sikkim at 4000 feet, near Darjeeling, May 9, 1848,” but Sir Joseph has 
since expressed the opinion that it is only a faded C. chloroleuca, which is 
The species has since been confused by 
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quite borne out by comparison. 
King and Pantling with the following one. 
C. vacinata, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard., ili. p. 37, was based on materials 
collected by Griffith in Bhotan, the localities being given as above Telagong, 
and at Chuka, on wet banks, at 6000 feet. Kew possesses also a specimen 
from Griffith, localised as from Darjeeling. There is also a specimen 
collected by Pantling in the Lachong Valley, Sikkim, at gooo feet (n. 468), 
which is the type of the plate wrongly called C. chloroleuca, in King & 
Pantl. Orch. Sikkim, p. 171, t. 231. It differs from C. chloroleuca in having 
a much shorter, straight spur, and in its light yellow lip with narrower side 
lobes. The sepals and petals are green. There is no evidence that the 
species has been in cultivation. A third species of the same group has also 
been greatly confused. 
