908. Dendrobium Pierardi. (Roxb.) stems pendulous
glabrous : leaves ovate-lanceolate acute : flowers in
pairs, forming a spurious raceme : sepals acuminate membranaceous
: petals larger than the upper sepal, acuminate :
lip dilated cuculate somewhat truncated ciliated. Lind,
h e . p. 79.
Pendulous from trees. The ignorance of the Transferrer
of the habit of this plant, had made him turn it
upside down.
909. Dendroibbm H etneanam. (Lindley) stem erect,
flexuose.clavate, clothed with the lax shealhs of the leaves:
leaves linear lanceolate, acute : racemes axillary, spreading,
many flowered : bracteas, miuute ovate : sepals and petals
ovate lanceolate acute, about equal: lip three lobed, united
with the base of the column ; a longitudinal callosity
on the disk ; lateral lobes acute, the-middle one roundish,
fleshy inciso crenate. Lind. 1. c. p. 90.
Epiphytical on branches of trees in Malabar. “ The
spreading many flowered peduncled racemes, combined
with the figure of the lip are alone sufficient to distinguish
this species’’ Lind.
910. D endrobium barbatulum. (Lindley) stems
terele aphyllous : racemes lateral and terminal, many
flowered : sepals ovate acuminate; petals obovate acute
larger than the upper sepal: lip flat, oboyate-obtuse,
speculate, entire^ bearded a t the base. Lind. 1. c.p. 84.
This seems to be a very handsome species, growing on
trees, but of which little is yet known, the specimens from
which it was taken up having been poor ones. The one
figured here was found in Malabar. The flowers are pale
straw coloured.
914. Ania latifolia. (Lindley) leaves oblong plicate
shorter than the scape : lip unguiculate three lobed, cohering
911. Cxmbidium triste. (Willd.) leaves terete: umbels
subsessile : sepals and petals connivent, fleshy, oblong,
cymbiform: lip oblong, about twice as broad as the
sepals. Lind. I, c, p. 167'
' This is a difficult plant to dry hence Dr. Lindley seems
imperfectly acquainted with it, having only had a bad
worm eaten specimen to examine. I cannot understand,
however, on what principle the racemes of this and one
or two otl er allied species are called umbels, they are^.
short but distinctly racemose. Another peculiarity o
some species of the section of the genus to which this belongs
is the form of the lip, a hollow inflated sack.
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912. Giodorum dilatatom. (R. Brown) scape shorter
than the leaves, spike pendulous : flowers congested, lip
subca/arate, dilated at the apex, crenulate. (Brown Hort.
KewJ Lind. C. c. p. 175.
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This is a widely distributed plant. Rheede found it in
Malabar, Roxburgh in the Circars, Blume in Java,
Colonel Walker in Ceylon, and the plant here figured I
found within a few miles of Coimbatore.
Kanathkoovoodoo, August 1843, in clefts of rock under
the shade of bushes.
The figures of the elaborate analysis seem all so plain
as scarcely to require explanation with the exception
of No. 13, which is a transverse section of a nearly full
grown fruit.
913. E ulophia virens. (tl. Brown) leaves grass-like,
linear-lanceolate, shorter than the branched scape : sepals
suid petals oblong obtuse narrower at the base, tessellated :
lip three lobed bearded, lateral lobes shorter middle one,
ovate obtuse with an erectish conical spur. Lind. 1. c.
p. 183. . .
This specimen was found with the preceding in cletts
of rock filled with vegetable earth in great abundance
Borne of the specimens upwards of 3 feet high.
with the elongated base of the column ; lateral
lobes obtuse, shorter than the roundish ovate acute middle
one ; the claws furnished with three truncated lamellae
terminating below the sinus of the lobes, that of the
middle one 5 toothed, the lateral ones shorter. Lind. 1.
c. p. 130.
Not having the original drawing by me I am at present
unable to give the station of this plant, but believe
Pulney mountains. I suspect it is not the species described
by Dr. Lindley, differing as it does so materially
in the character of the lip and its lamellce, neither do I
feel quite certain that the structure of the anther case is
the same as in his, but as I 'have not the specimens at
hand to ascertain that point by examination. 1 am for
the present compelled to leave the matter in a state of
uncertainty.
915. Vanda spathulata. (Sprengel) leaves ovate
oblong obtuse, oblique, emarginate : racemes erect many
flowered, much longer than the stem and leaves : sepals
and petals oblong obtuse flat: two callosities in front of
the base of the lip, limb rhomboid, incurved at the apex,
crestate : ovary six winged. Lind. I. c. pi 216.
A beautiful species growing on trees “ the leaves and
racemes often marked with blood coloured spots, flowers
yellow spotless, base of the lip white within.”
The specimen figured was gathered in Malabar.
916. Vanda Roxburghii. (R. Brown) leaves oblique
ly tridentate at the apex : racemes erect, longer than the
leaves: sepals and petals oblong obovate undulated obtuse,
middle lobe of the lip emarginate. Lind. 1. c. p. 215.
A splendid species, remarkable for its finely lessilated
petals; is found epiphytical on tress, especially the mango.
The specimen figured was found in Malabar. This is the
Cybidmium tesseloides of Roxb. FI. Iud.
917. Saccolabium Wightianum. (Lindley, CErides
radicosnm ? Rich.) leaves channeled, narrow, obtuse,
fleshj, subequal at the apex: racemes erect ramous, long-
or than the leaves : sepals and "petals ovate obtuse : lip
with a cylindrical obtuse bent spur ; limb furnished at
the base with a two lobed fleshy callosity, lateral lobes
rounded: capsules three winge and three furrowed.
Liud. 1. c. p. 221.
Epiphytical on branches of trees, this specimen grew is
from the Pulney’s, flowers rose colored.
The specimens from which the species was originally
taken up, were far from good and the character is unavoidably
imperfect, but sufficiently so to leave little room
to doubt that this is the plants I have quoted Richard
(Annal des Sciences. Vol. .15) with a doubt though I
believe unnecessarily his description and figure, agreeing
so well with my plant. The erect not recumbent column
and entire not 3 lobed lip of his plant show that it is not
referable to CErides at least as defined by Lindley.
918. Calanthe emarginata. (Lindley) leaves^ broad
lanceolate: spike erect slightly pubescent: lip with two
callosities, limb 3 lobed, middle one emarginate, spathu-
late, the lateral ones minute : spur linear somewhat compressed
equaling the ovary. Lind. 1. c. 249from Blume.
Ambly glottis emarginate Blume.
This plant does not seem hitherto to to have been
found in India, the above character, which applies well,
■ having been taken from a Java specimen. Flowers purplish
blue or violet.