V.ANDEÍE.
P l a t e 116. Vanda Roxburgliiiií. 5?-. Portioa of plant,—o/na¡ffíra¿ size. Fig. 1, a
flower; 2, ditto witli sepals and petals removed; 3, vertical section of column aud
l i p ; 4, front view of column; 5, a n t h e r ; 6, p o l l i n i a ; — e n l a r g e d.
3. Vasda cristata Lindl. in "Wall. Cat. 7328.
Stem 7'8 to 1'5 cm., stout, covered with the remains of old sheaths. Leaves
bifarious, crowded, 7-5 to 10 cm. loDg, narrowly oblong, conduplicate, truncately and
unequally bibbed at the apex, dilated at the sheathing base. Racemes not exceeding
the leaves, axillary, 2-5-fiowered. Flowers 3-5 to 5 cm. across. Sepals and potáis
incurved, pale olive-green or yellowish. Sepals subequal, oblong, obtuse. Petals
narrower than the sepals, oblong. Lip adnate to the base of the column, longer
than tlie sepals, green blotched with dull purpUsh-brown, basal lobes erect, triangular,
terminal lobe oblong, -with two divaiicate oblong lobules and a horn-Jike fleshy
beak pointing downwards from under the apex, upper surface with five carunculate
ridges. Cohmn short, without a foot. Aniher depressed, with a prominent central ridge,
pollinia ovoid, attached by a short broad caudicle to a quadrate gland. Capsule narrowly
clavate, 5 to 6-5 cm. long. Lindl, Gen. & Sp. Orch, 216; Sert. Orch. frontisp. ficr 3.
in Bot. Rog. (1S42), t. 48; Fol'. Orch. 10; Bot. Mag. 4304; Walp. Ann. v ^ m d ]
"Warner's Orch. Alb. vii, t. 290; Gai'tenfl. t. 680; Hook, f, Fl. Br. Ind, vi, 5 3 ; ' K i ng
& Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gavd. Calc. viii, 216, t. 287. ySrides cristatum Waif.
MSS. sp. Griff. I t . Notes, 203, No. 1188.
Dehra Dun and Mussoorie range up to 4,000 feet, Macltinnon {DuiUe's No. 21785);
Garhwál, Duthiés collector No. 25827; Kumaon 3 to 4,000 feet, Straclmj & Winterholtam
No. 21, Colonel Davidson. Flowers^ in May. it extends eastwards to Sikkim, Bhutan
and Sylhet.
4, Vasda alpisa Lindl. I'ol. Orch. 10.
Siem and leaves as in V. cristata. Raccnrn much shorter than the leaves. F'owcrs
solitary or in pairs, nodding, about 2 cm. long. Sepals and petah subequal, conniveut,
oblong, blunt, the colouring as in V. cristaia. Lip adnate to the column, gibbous but
not saccalo or spurred at the base; side lobes shallow, rounded; terminal lobe retuse
its upper surface with shallow ridges. Column short, stout, with no foot. A^ither flattened •
pollinia ovoid, caudicle subquadrate, gland transversely oblong. Capsule 7-5 cm. lononarrowly
clávate. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 53; King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot.
Gard. Qalc. viii, 217, t. 289. V. Griffilhii Lindl. in Paxfc. Fl. Gard. ii, 22; Fol. Orch!
10 (excl. cit. Griff.). Lmia alpina Lindl. in J3ot. Reg. 1838 Misc. 56.
Garhwál, T. Thomson; Kumaon 3,500 feet, Slrachey & Winterhottom No. 22.
Flowers during June and July. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and the Khasia
Hills.
25. Saccolabium Blume,
Epiphytes without pseudo-bulbs. Lio,vbs coriaceous, flat or conduplicate, often
keeled, mowers usually small, in leaf-opposed or supra-axillary racemes corymbs
umbels or panicles, jloral imd minute, iiipals and petals adnate to the column, subequal,
spreading or reflexed. Lip sessile on the footless column, consistinfj of a
cyHndiic or saccate spur, -n-ithout calli and non-septate, with or without small lateral
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lobes; the apical lobe small, without a scale or callus under the short broad truncate
column, often hairy. Anlker l- or in,perfectly S-celled; fM.uu 2, entire or bipartite,
hpecies about oo, inhabiting Eastern Asia-
Spur eylindrio, straight ... ... __
Spur short, wide, s.ooat., at right angles to th, ovuj.
Apes of leaves not eetulose, terminal lobe of lip
S. calceolare.
3. S. dkiiehim.
Aprjs of leaves aetulose, terminal lobe of lip fleshy
aud glabrous
SACCOLABIUa PAPILLOSUJI Lindl. t. 1552 (oxcl. syn.).
Stem, erect, clustered, ng.d, stout, bearing many nearly horizontal leaves
» conaceous, 7-6 to 10 cm. long, and about 1-5 cm. broad (when flattened out '
conduphcate, curved, the a p c j truncate or deeply notched. Pedmcl, leaf-opposed I "
13 mm. long, bearing a sub-corymbose 4- to 8- flowered raceme. ITm ' j ' r
oral triangular Sepals and petals yellow, barred and blotched »¡th broTn
Sepah subequal, oblong, subacute, spreading. Petals narrower than the sepals sib'
spathnlate. ^ longer than the sepals, adnate to the base of the co.nnin, side l o bt
none termma lobe decurved, ovate-oblong, obtuse, crenatu, upper surface t r a n s v e l lv
rugu oso, white with transverse purple bars, spur half as long as the ova,v and
pa„IIel to It, cyhndric or slightly tapering, pale yellow, hairy within. C . Z A rt
Antker bi^adly comcal; pollinia 2, deeply bipartite, snbovoid; caudicle slender w T
downwards to the small oblong gland. Caps.le about 3 m. Ion. f u s t ? 'if /
Lindh Gen. and Sp. Orch. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi 63 E n . 1 P '
Ann. E. Bot. Gard. Oalc viii, 319, t, 290. S. carinat.n G r i k ^ t u l I 354™ ^ ^ "
papulosa Lindl. Fol. Oroh. 2 ; Walp. Ann. vi, 873.
Dehra Dun in the Narkaundo swamp,' GamUe No. 23S72 MacMm. - p i . , ,
n ^ s eoUoot^r Nos. 25815. 25823; K i L o n , ^ I t ^ ^
durmg the cold season. It extends eastwards to Sikkim, Khasin Assam n
the Bengal Sunderbuns and Burma. ' ' Chittagong,
2. Saccolabium caicioiase Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7303.
Stem shoit, pendulous. Leases 1 to 2-8 dm. long, narrowly oblong, nneqnallv bifd
at the apex, slightly narrowed to the base. Raeems much shorter h a n ,
corymbose, many-flowcred, the peduncle bearing several short sheaths. Z «
across, crowded ; toral l„et small, broad and blunt. Sepals and petals pale I n wi^;
large roundish brown spot,. Serai, unequal, spreading; the dorsal one
the lateral pair oblong, falcate, narrower than the dorsal Ppf / > i-f u ^^
oblong-obovate. adnate to the lower half of the column V t ' C f Z i u t a T h i ;
wide yellow sac about half as long as the ovary; side lobes absent; terminal lobe a
right angles to the sac, scmicircular; its upper surface, except a triangular yellow „ a t ct
at the base, pure white and covered with hair-like papilla. verv s W , «
depressed shortly beaked; p ^ i . broadly'oLid-elliptic a t Z e d X a .1 dt
caudicle to a small cordate gland. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Oroh. 223- Sert Orch ¡.f 7
6 ; in Bot. Beg. 1838, Misc. 139; in Journ. Linn. Soc. lii., 33 ( J i . P & i T o l l'
AKN, ROY. Bor. G.IRD., Calc., VOL. IX.