Iyamally Hills, Coimbatore, flowering August and
September.
The distinctive marks between Vanda and JErides
are not always very clearly defined, and when naming
this drawing I was misled by its similarity to
Vanda spalhulata, and named it accordingly. I after
wards discovered my mistake and beg the reader to
correct the name on the plate.
1670. Vanda W ightiana ? (Lind. MSS. in
Herb. Wight), leaves strap-shaped, unequally 2-
lobed at the apex: peduncles much shorter than
the leaves, divaricate: sepals and petals sub-spathu-
late, sepals all equal, larger than the petals: lip 3-
lobed; lateral lobes short obtuse; middle one sub-
orbicular, saccate at the base: fruit oblong, conical.
Flowers yellowish dashed with dark crimson or
purplish spots, lip nearly white with a red line at
the base of the lamina.
Iyamally Hills and Malabar, growing on branches
of trees.
The specimen in my Herbarium, named by Lindley,
is in fruit only. Had he seen flowers he would perhaps
have referred it to a different genus. It seems
to me to associate better with Saccolabium 'papillosum
than with any species of Vanda with which
I am acquainted. I should not therefore be surprised
to find this and the following removed to that
genus.
1671. Vanda pulchilla (R. W.), leaves narrow,
strap-shaped, deeply 2-cleft at the apex, segments
divaricate: ra'cemes short, many-flowered: sepals
and petals all equal, obovate, cuniate : lip 3-lobed,
lateral lobes short, obtuse, middle one ovate fimbriated,
with a large inflated sack at the base.
Flowers green or yellowish, passing into white,
dashed with purple.
Pendulous by its long reots from branches of trees
on the banks of the Kartairy river below the falls.
An exceedingly beautiful plant but I fear scarcely
referable to this genus.
1672. Saccolabium papillosum (Lind.), leaves
strap-shaped, obliquely cuspidate at the ap ex :
racemes short, capitate: sepals fleshy, linear, ovate,
o,btuse: spur of the lip ob conical, obtuse, villous
within; lamina ovate, fleshy, papillose, recurved.
Flowers white and tinged with yellow and purple.
Malabar, on branches of trees usually pendulous
by its long roots.
1673. Saccolabium rubrum (Lind.), leaves channeled,
bowed, bidentate at the apex: racemes erect,
many-flowered: sepals and petals ovate, obtuse:
spur of the lip cylindrical, obtuse, incurved; lamina
oval, acuminate, fleshy at the apex, bicomiculate
at the base. Flowers deep rose colour, leaves mottled
with purple, pale on the under surface.
Neilgherries, frequent on branches of trees, flowering
during the rainy season, or from May until
October.
I am not sure that I understand Lindley’s character
of the lip, especially the “ base bicomiculate,”
nor whether this one possesses that character. In
other respects this plant seems to correspond well
with the character.
1674-75. Saccolabium spiciosum (R. W.),
leaves strap-shaped, obliquely emarginate at the
ap ex : panicle large, lateral branches few-flowered,
terminal one long, drooping at the apex, many-
flowered : sepals broad ovato-elliptic, obtuse, petals
rhombeo-spathulate: lip 3-lobed, lateral ones small
sub-orbicular, furnished with a recurved plate;
middle one sub-triangular, crenate, reflexed on the
margins, truncate at the ap ex : spur tapering, shorter
than the lip, hooked outwards, fruit short obconical,
surmounted by the marcescent perianth. Flowers
rose coloured, fining off towards the margin, lip much
deeper, approaching crimson.
In forests about Paulghaut in the Malabar District,
flowering July and August.
An exceedingly handsome species. The lip is
nearly twice as Targe as the sepals, somewhat ventri-
cose above, from the margins being recurved. The
scale at the base is paler and curved backwards
towards the column. It seems to form the connecting
link between ASrides and Saccolabium.
1676. Saccolabium paniculatum (R. W.), leaves
strap-shaped, somewhat channeled, obliquely 2-lobed
at the apex: panicles racemose, many-flowered,
much longer than the leaves: sepals and petals sub-
orbicular, obovate obtuse: petals smaller than the
sepals: lip ovate attenuate towards the point, with
2 small sub-orbicular lobes at the base, and a fleshy
gland-like appendage closing- the throat of the sp u r:
spur conical, about the length of the lip. Flowers
nearly white with a light tinge of pink, lip streaked
with crimson.
Iyamally Hills, on branches of trees, flowering
September and October.
I have another drawing before me taken from
what appears a stunted less perfect specimen of the
plant in which the anterior sepals are represented
larger than the posterior, and all more ovate than
in the accompanying plate. They agree in other
respects, whence I consider it a mere variety, by
which this species approaches S. niveum, Lind., but
which is a much smaller, the leaves being only 2£
inches long and £ of an inch broad. My specimen
may therefore perhaps be more properly viewed as
a large variety of the latter.
1677. AlIrides Lindletana (R. W.), leaves
fleshy, coriaceous, sub-elliptic oblong, oblique, deeply
emarginate at the apex: racemes erect, many-flowered:
sepals and petals obovato-suborbicular, anterior
sepals somewhat larger and, like the lip, thick
and coriaceous: lip three-lobed attached to the point
of the prolonged base of the column: lateral lobes
small, ovate, middle one large ovate, ventricose
above, crisp on the margins with a large fleshy
lobe at the base, closing the spur: spur short, rigid,
inflexed under the lamina: capsules large, obovate,
long pedicelled. Flowers pinkish-lilac, deeper on
the axis, fining off to nearly white on the margins;
lip the same, but much deeper coloured.
On clefts of rocks bordering the Kartairy Falls
below Kaitie, also on rocky clefis on a high hill
over Coonoor, flowering nearly the whole year, at
least I gathered it in April, and I have it now, Nov.,
in flower in pots in Coimbatore.
It is a very handsome species, worthy of being
dedicated to the accomplished author of the “ gen