Plant life here was exceedingly beautiful and interesting, especially high up in the mountains, palms, pandanus, cycads, crotons, acalyphas, loranths, aroids, freycinetias, ferns and orchids being strongly represented, and among the latter may be mentioned a fine orange dendrobium and a pink calanthe.
"Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines"
H. Wilfrid Walker
But his sister is eminently classic; she stoops fashionably, with the "Grecian bend"-has a Roman nose, and her name is calanthe Maria.
"Doesticks, What He Says"
Q. K. Philander Doesticks
We went to the theatre, endured the negro minstrels, and braved the horrors of a second-rate Italian Opera Company-in fact, everywhere, where there was anything to be seen or heard, there were calanthe Maria, and her devoted Philander.
"Doesticks, What He Says"
Q. K. Philander Doesticks