

from ihc stem on the side opposite a leaf; they are about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. 

 The sepals mid petals arc obovato. acute, spreading, ydlow, and nearly of equal size. I he 

 labeiujm i* pale pink, concave at the bate, where it baa a rounded lobe on each ride, and Hat 

 beyond the lobes, enlarging into a somewhat triangular thrce-lobed fringed plate. 



Fig. 2, represents the column and lip of tins plant, copied from the drawing above mentioned. 



III, VANDA CKISTATA. 



Vantla cristnta. Genera & 



of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 21fi. 



This species has very much the manner of growth and appearance of SuccoIahUiui frnttntum, 

 but it?t flower* are totally different. Dr. W allien found it in March. 1818, growing upon tree* in 

 Nepal ; he also obtained it in April at Toku. near Sheopore, on which occasion it was dcserihvd in 

 hi* manuscript with the following addition. " Flos cxqiiisiue piilcliritiidinis. Lnbclli consistentia 

 crassiasimn, color atropurpureus praccipufc intu* ubi ctiam holoscriccus/* The following; is the 

 translation of the more essential parts of the description referred to- 



The shoots arc nWm as thick as the little finger, nearly simple, emitting from the sides near 

 the lose thick taper fleshy fibres, adhering to the bark of trees like Vnnda tcsscllnta, to which plant 

 it bears much resemblance in habit aad leaves. The LEAV£d arc slid*, spreading, two-ranked, imbri- 

 cating each other alternately at (he base, shining, channelled, keeled on the under side, very sharp 

 edged, from five to six inches long, and uiiiMliinl of in inch wide, truncated and obliquely threc- 

 toothed at the ends. The RACEMES are axillary, generally three or four on the same shoot, scarcely 

 long as the leaves, and Iwarinc but few flowers ; (in the figure and ipccimctts before me the pedun- 

 cles are three- flowered). The FEBUSCLB8 are fleshy, taper, two or three inches long, having at the 

 base a few truncated bracts, together with one broad ovate acute membranous one beneath each 

 pedicel. FOOTERS large, fleshy, yellowish green, with a very Urge purple lip. SEPAW fleshy, 

 lanceolate, spreading, rather obtuse, about half an inch long, nearly distinct; the lateral ones 

 extended a little beyond the origin of the labellum, and adherent to the slightly extended base, of 

 the column. PktaIA nearly linear, Laiiki.lvm very thick, saccate at the base, and extended into 

 a very short broad sharpish hom. adhering to the fleshy base of the column ; with an ovate, obtuse. 

 erect lobe on each side ; upwards exteuded into an oblong blade, which terminates below* the mm 

 in a solid short horn, and has above a crest or transverse border running into three or four irrcidiir 

 cylindrical processes; on the whole of the upper surface it is covered with watted lines; (on the 

 outside it is white; inside it is strongly streaked with purple broken lines), CoLUMK very short, 

 thiek. conical Anther terminal, rounded, with two remote distinct cells, 1\h,u:.\.w.\sm:s two 

 "lobosc. two-lobed at the Imek. (with a short elastic caudieula, and a very large rounded gland.) 

 Ovary with Ax t keeled, projecting nn^lc*. 



Fiff. 3, represents the column and labellum. from a dnnving belonging to the Cast India 

 Company. 



