Lip very variable in shape ; spur compressed, as long as the lip. Capsuh
clavate, 2'5 to 3-5 cm. long. Hook. f. Fl. Br. lud. vi, 32; King & Pantling in
Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 213, t. 384. M. ^prcemorsa Blume Bijdr. 286.
E. giiitaia Risiclib. f, in Bonplandia ii, 93. R. garwalica Reicbb. f. in Walp. Ann.
vi, 888. Saacolahiiim guiiatum Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 7308; Gen. & Sp. Orcb. 220 •
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ili, 32; Bot. Mag. t. 4108; Wight Ic. tt. 1745-6; Dalz. & Gibs!
Bomb. Fl. 2(i3; De Vriese Orcb. t. 14 ; Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. Notul. 22, t. 8 & 9. S. pmmorsum
Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 221. S. Rheedii Wight Ic. v, 19. S. retusim Fl. dos
Serres tt. U6;j-4. S. JJeathii Hort, ex Gard. Cbron. (1885), ii, 369. S. Blumci Lindl.
Sert, t. 47; Bot. Reg. (1841), misc. 55. S. gvnoalicum Lindl, in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii,
32; in Gard. Cliron. (1879), ii, 102. Sarcanikus guttaius Lindl, in Bot. Reg. t. 1443^
JErides (¡y-Uatum Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 471; Regel Gartenfl. (1863), 415. M retumm Swartz
in Scbrad. Dar. (1799), 130; Willd. Sp. PI. iv, 130; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. m .
Limodonim relusim Swartz in N o v . A c t . U p s a l . vi, 80. Epidendrum retustm, Linn So
PL 953.
Kangra Valley, Punjab Himalaya, Edgeivorth; Siwalik range, Eoyle; Debra Dun
King, Mackinmn, &c., and up to 4,000 feet on the Mussoorie range; Garhwal, Falconer
Duthie's eolledor Nos. 25828, 25830,25840; Sub-Himalayan tract ia tho Gonda district of
N. Oudb, Duthies collector No. 22800; Kumaon, T. Thomson, T. Anderson, &c. Flowers
in Juno and July. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, the Kliasia
Hills and Burma, and occurs also in S. India, Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago,
2 4 . V a n d a R. Brown.
Epiphytes with ieafy stems. Leaves thickly coriaceous or Sesby, Sat and keeled or
terete. Flowers usually large and handsome, in axillary simple racemes, sometimes
solitary; floral bract much smaller than the ovary. Sepals and petils subequal, spreadin<r
or con nivent, narrowed at the base. Lip large, its base usually saccate or spurred, the
side lobes large or small, rarely absent, adnafce to the short foot of the column or to
the sides of the sac or spur; apical lobe fleshy, varying in shape, the disk usually
ridged or lamellate, sometimes carunculate. Column short, stout, foot short or uone
Ant/ier 2-celled, rostellum small; foUinia 2, didymous, subglobose or obovoid; caudicle
broad and short, or long and geniculate, gland usually large.—Species about 30 in
Tropical Asia and Australia. '
L i p spurred at t h e t a s e ;—
Sepals and petals s p r e a d i o g :—
Flowers small, disk of lip without ridges l. y. p a r t i f l o ra
Plowers 3-5 to 5 cm. in diam., disk of lip with flesiay
"•^Ses : . . S. r. jRo<cburg/di
Sepals and petals incurved V. crisia'u
L i p gibbous, not spurred or saeoate at thebase r. a!pina.
1. VANDA TAKVIFLOKA L i n d l , i n B o t . R e g . x x x ( 1 8 4 4 ) , Misc. 45.
Slevi stout, 1 to 3 dm. long, enveloped in the sheath-bases of iallea kavcB. Laeves
7'5 to 10 cm. long i to 1-3 cm. broad (when fiatieaed out), linear-oblong,
VANÜA. 145
conduphcate, keeled unequally and obtusely S-lobed at the apex, not narrowed at th«
base. I.floreses.ce from below the leaves and about as long; peduncle us long as t h.
raceme, boarmg a tew small scattered sheaths; few-flowored; floral hract ovate
acute, deciduous. 1-5 cm. in diam. Sepals petals jeWow. Sepals spatbulate'
obtuse, spreading, ti.e lateral pair shorter than tho dorsal. Petals spathulate-oblon.
f a cate, as long as the lateral sepals, spreading. Lip adnate to the foot of the
column, spurred; s:de lobes erect, oblong, rounded or subacute; terminal lobe decurved
fleshy, oblong or cuneate-obovate, with a dilated truncate or retuse erose apex; tho
upper surface blue, caruacled and with a deep groove down the centre; slender,
coracul, half as long as the lip. short and thick, with a very short foot!
^«¿/..T depressed, shghtly beaked in f r o n t ; polUnia subglobose, bifid, attached to a short
caudicle. Capmle about 2 cm. long, fusiform, with winged ridges. Wight Ic 1669 •
Reiehb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, if, 166; Hook, f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 50' Kino- &'
Panthng in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. vlii, 215, t. 286. brides Wighiianum Lindl! iu
Wall. Cat. 7320; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 238; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 40; Bot. Mag.
IdS; Wight Ic. v, p. 8; Dalz. & Gibs., Bomb. FI. 2G5.
Dehra Dun, Machmnon; and along the bases of the outer ranges of Garhwal and
Kumaon, Edgeworth, Duthich collector Nos. 25824 to 25826. Flowers in May This
species extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Assam and Burma; also southwards "through
Central, W. and S. India to Ceylon. ^
2 , VAKDA ROXBUEWUII R . B r . i n B o t . R e g . t, 5 0 6.
SUM Climbing 3 6 dn,. long emitting many thick white fleshy roots. U a .„
h f a n o n s approxm,ate, f o t o . dm. long, narrow, co>r,pllca.e, keelodi the apc^ Z Z
morss. 5-10.fl„wered, longer than the leaves; pcdnncle to 2 dm^ li;™
Flo.,r, 3-» to 5 cm. ,„ dram Sepal, and pehl, subeqnal, spreading, clawed, obovate,
undulate yellowish-groen or blmsh tessallated with brown, their claws and outer surface!
white, iy, about half as long as the sepals; side lobes small, acute; apical lobe
panduntorm wuh a purple dflated truncate S-lobed apex, the margins defle.cd ; disk
c o n « . , wrth fleshy rrdges. Spur conical, bairy inside. PoUM, globose ; caudicle broTd!
attached to a subquadrate gland. Capsule clavate, sharply ridged. Lindi Qen & Sn
Orch. 215; Fol. Orch. 3 ; Wight Ic. t. 916; Fl. dcs S e r rL ii. t. 11 • P „ t ri
t. 43, £. 2; Eeichb. Fl. Exot. t. 131,. m . Hort. t. I8Ò (var , ; Ho t Fl L l"d
, i , 53. r . t e „ e l h a . . Eeichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 864 C - y ^ S f c / i l w : RÌ f '
Fl. Ind. iii, 463. 0. tesselMuu Swart, in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi' To" M d t pf
102; Koxb. Fl. Ind. I . e . C. Ali,g«atm Herb. Ham. Mpidcndrum ¿ueU«tum Eort ' c l r '
PI. i, 34, t. 43. M s Ussdiatum Wight in Wall. Cat. 7318; Lindl. Gen. & Sp ' o r ch
240. Vanda Jones in Asiat. Res. iv, 302.
Forests in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Oudh, R. T!u,mmon ; Bahraicb district
nest the Nepal frontier, cilecior No. 23867 (a & b); northern portion of the
Gonda district, Dutti,', cMcctor Nos. 23793 & 23867. Often found on the branche,
of mango trees and of Basaia latifolia. Flowers during the rains. It is also found in
Bei,gal, Behai, the Central Provinces and westwards to Gnzerat and the Konkan"
extending southwards to Travancore, Ceylon and Tenasserim. In the Chanda district
the roots, called rama or mi, are used medicinally.
A . \ N . SOT. BOT. GARD., CALO., YOL. I S .