84 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
and bases of the petals show some purple spots and stripes, as in the seed 
parent, whose influence is less aparent in the flower than in the vegetative 
organs.—O’ Brien in Gard. Chron., Jan. 11, p. 40. 
CALANTHE ROSEA AND C. RUBENS. 
SomE interesting facts respecting these two species have come to light in 
a series of plants which have recently flowered in the collection of 
A. Worsley, Esq., of Isleworth. A batch of imported bulbs was offered 
for sale at one of the auction rooms, and was purchased by Mr. Worsley. 
A number of them began to push up spikes, and on flowering, proved to be 
the well-known old C. rosea, to which it was then thought all belonged. 
Other plants pushed up later, and these proved to belong to C. rubens,a 
species of comparatively recent origin. An interval of over a month 
elapsed between the flowering of the two species, which are so much alike 
that until the very different flowers appeared no difference was observed. 
C. rubens is a native of the Langkawi Islands, lying off the west coast of 
the Malay Peninsula, whence also Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. have obtained 
C. rosea, and these facts probably serve to fix the origin of the batch of 
bulbs obtained by Mr. Worsley. Of course the two species are thoroughly 
distinct, for C. rosea has an entire lip, while in C. rubens that organ 
strongly four-lobed, as in C. vestita; and both are charming little plants 
when well grown, 
C. rosea was first discovered by Thomas Lobb, near Moulmein, and 
flowered with Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in December, 1851, being 
originally described and figured by Dr. Lindley, under the name of 
Limatodes rosea (Paxt. Fl, Gard., III, p. 55, t. 81). The Rev. Mr. Parish 
also found it in the same locality, and sent plants to Messrs. Hugh 
Low & Co., one of which was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t- 5312): 
In 188r it was transferred to Calanthe by Bentham (Journ. Linn. Soc., XVIII. 
P- 309), and has tightly been known as C. rosea ever since. I am oe 
aware that the Langkawi locality has previously been recorded, but ue 
discovery there, at such a distance from the original habitat, is particularly 
interesting. ; 
C. rubens was described in 1890 by Mr. Ridley (Gard. Chron., 1890, 1» 
P- 588) from specimens brought from the Langkawi Islands by Mr. Curtis, 
and plants were sent to England, which in due time flowered, and those 
which flowered with Mr. Worsley are identical. The plant described by 
me in 1892 under the name of Calanthe vestita Fournieri (Gard. Cram 
1892, i., p. 488) must also apparently be referred to the same. It cam’ 
from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, with the record that it had 
flowered with M. Fournier, of Marseilles, and had been introduced from 
