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Ca'wake Tosco (AL) 0th. (Lintolochs Tosco I.d1.)—It is a deciduous species from Burma. The flowers are bloomed during autumn and winter. The pseudo bulbs are 20 cm tall, usually grayish germs in color, spindle shaped, swollen basally. The leaves are broadly lanceolate, up to 45 cm long, of flaccid-texture. The inflorescence is many flowered, nodding 10 90 um long. The flowers are loosely arranged in the raceme. The flowers are long lading. varying in color from pale rose-pink to white or dark-rose, up to 7.5 cm across. The lip is fattish, white in color.

Calanthe veratrilolia R. Br —The specie is native to India and Australia, produce flowers during May. The plants an! highty variable in all parts. The leaves are persistent 60 50 90cm long and 15 10 20 cm wide, prominently stalked at base, numerous, narrowly elliptic, acuminate and distinctly folded, light green in color. The inflorescence is up to 150 cm tall, often several from one growth, many flowered and erect. The flowers are lung lastmg, white, lip yellow-crested, Sum long. The lip is vivid yellow spotted in the center, which is very deeply cut and four lobed.

Calanthe vestita Loll. Wee:rho:die vestita Rchb. r; Cylheris Griffithii WIghtl—This desciduous species is inhabiting in India, Malay Peninsula, Burma and Thailand; produce blooms during November to December. The pseudo bulbs are conical egg shaped, 20 cm long, 4-angled, covered with silvery grey-sheaths, carrying 3 to 4 deciduous leave, The leaves are up to 90 cm long, and 10 cm wide, folded, falling before the flowers am produced. The inflorescence is up to 150 ore long, gracefully arched, carrying numerous large white flowers. The flowers are long-lived, 7 to 8 cm long. The lip is four-lobed, white centrally marked red.

Calorithe veitchii Hort—h is a hybrid of C. revert and C wstita, raised in 1860. The pseudo bulbs are elongated, narrowing apically. The leaves are deciduous. The inflorescence is about 75 errs tall. The flowers are rich rose colored. The lip is 4 lobed and rose colored. The flowers are produced during January to February, which are long lasting and suitable as not flower.

Camarotis Lindl.

Tribe Vandeoe  Subtribe Vandmac

There am 14 epiphytic species in this genus, naturally distributed in South East Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and New Guinea. The generic name is derived from the Greek word Kamarotos, meaning "an arch", a reference to the arched shape of the lip of flowers. The genus bullied to SarcseVilas or Trichoglottisvegetaively, but readily distinguished by its lip, which always points towards the apex of the inflorescence, thus generally making the flower appear inverted. Plants do not posses any pseudo bulb. 

Leaves are dist ichous or wanting at flowering lime. Flowers are small. Sepals and petals are nearly equal, elliptic- oblong. The lateral sepals are adnate to the base of the column. The cohunn is short or long, pollirda 

 Conan:Ws ohtosa rell.-1 he species is native to Bunna. Blooms during June-July. The stern is 15 to 20 cm long. Leaves are keeled, up to 7 cm long and 2cm wide, often recurred. Raceme is very shortly pedurre/ed, erect, subsessile, lady flowered. Bracts are broad and acute. Sepals and petals are linearoblong, obtuse. The lip is yellowish, slipper shaped, side lobes incurved. Flowers are 1.5 cm in diameter, pale rose colored.

Camarotis commit King and Pantl.—The species is found in Sikkim, Meghalaya, and North Bengal at an elevation of 4010 rri, produce flowers during June-July.

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