49 PROFESSOR LINDLEY’ S CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
Dr. Hooker's admirable sketches. The Sikkim plant may therefore 
be defined thus :— 
243. A. un YsTRIX ; foliis oblongis, petalis linearibus, labelli lobis late- 
ralibus planis intermedio trilobo fimbriato apice recurvo brevioribus. 
Sikkim, at 4000-5000 feet elevation, J. D. Н. (204). 
The flowers are yellow with crimson streaks along the sepals 
and petals; the middle lobe ofthe lip, which is deeply fringed 
and erimson, consists of two lateral lobes diverging at the base, 
and converging upwards over a circular recurved middle lobe. 
244. A. decumbens, Griff. Not. iii. t. 320, a Burmese plant, seems to be 
a true Aerides; but I have seen no specimen. 
VANDA, R. Brown. 
To the species described in * Folia orchidacea,’ the following fine 
addition to thé section Frenpra has to bé added :-? 
245. V. UNDULATA; foliis distichis obtusis bilobis pedunculo apice 
paucifloro triplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque recurvis membranaceis 
lineari-lanceolatis undulatis, labello breviore carnoso cochleato in 
laminam linearem acutam sub apice tuberculatam producto. 
Sikkim, Cathcart, Ic. 
The whole habit is that of V. spathulata and cerulescens. The 
flowers are fully two inches in diameter, with thin white sepals 
and pétals tinged with pink, and a yellow fleshy lip fasciated 
internally with red lines. I have only seen a drawing prepared 
by Mr. Catheart's artists. 
TÆNIOPHYLLUM, Blume. 
246. T. Atwisir; minutissimum, spica pauciflora erecta, bracteis cari- 
natis triangulis, perianthii laciniis omnibus connatis acutis confor- 
mibus, calcare hemispherico, polliniis pyriformibus in glandulam 
sessilibus. 
On the branch of a Symplocos, Ceylon, De Alwiz. 
The smallest Orchid I know, the flat roots not being more than 
1j inch long, and the stem, including flowers, inch. The whole 
plant is pale green, even the flowers having no other colour. Mr. 
Thwaites, who sent me a drawing of it (and I have seen nothing 
more), proposed to call it Alwista minuta, after his excellent native 
draughtsman, who was the first to discover it; and if the figures 
in Blume and the Xenia represent the invariable characters of 
Teniophyllum, this and Dendrobium algosum of Reinwardt’s MSS. 
ought to be distinguished; but Prof. Reichenbach, jun., who has 
had the opportunity of examining Twniophylla, assures me that 
this i is one, and I possess no materials on which to gu an opinion 
_ for myself. 
