Coosya Hills, and sent us dried specimens. Its flowers are 
as large as those of Vanda teres, and the foliage is as good as 
that of Aerides odoratum. It is to be regretted that we 
should have no more exact information as to where it may be 
found, but we can hardly suppose that it could be missed by 
any plant-collector who might be sent after it into Sylhet. 
The leaves of this wonderful plant are five inches long 
by nearly one inch wide; at their end they are two-lobed 
equally, and each lobe is sharp-pointed, so that the end looks 
as if a piece had been struck off by a circular punch. The 
flowers grow in upright spikes. A piece of a stem but four 
inches long bears four such spikes, which are from six to nine 
inches long, and carry from nine to twelve flowers. Each 
dried flower is between three and four inches in diameter, and 
if allowance is made for their having shrunk in drying, they 
may be estimated as at least a foot in circumference. The lip 
is, as 1s usual among Vandas, small ; itis barely three-quarters 
of an inch long, narrow, with a short spur and a two-lobed 
point. Its surface is broken by three deep parallel perpen- 
dicular plates, and the lateral lobes of the base are triangular 
and acuminated. 
In order to secure Mr. Griffiths’ name, and to give more 
precision to this popular description, the following specific 
eharacter is proposed. 
. V. cerulea (W. Griffith in litt.) ; foliis distichis coriacels 
apice eequalibus truncatis sinu concavo lobis lateralibus acutis, 
spicis densis erectis multifloris, bracteis oblongis concavis 
obtusissimis membranaceis, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtu- 
sissimis planis subunguiculatis, labello coriaceo lineari-oblongo 
apice divergenti-bilobo obtuso per axin trilamellato laciniis 
basilaribus triangularibus acuminatis, calcare brevi obtuso. 
