Stauropsis.] CXLVIII, ORCHIDEX, (J. D, Hooker.) 27 
51, STAUROPSIS, Reich). f. 
Epiphytes; stem stout, leafy. Leaves distichous, coriaceous, flat, 
2-lobed. Flowers in lateral racemes. Sepals and similar but smaller 
petals widely spreading. Lip sessile, adnate to the base or sides of the 
column, incurved, base simple or saccate, lobes narrow, disk naked or hairy. 
Column short, thick, foot 0, top truncate ; anther 1-celled; pollinia 2, sub- 
globose, 2-cleft; strap broad, gland large.—Species about 8, Malayan. 
l. S. giganteus, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 572; flowers very large 
golden-yellow ocellately blotched with cinnamon, sepals and petals spathu- 
lately obovate, lip white hatchet-shaped obtuse, base cordate, side lobes 
rounded, midlobe narrow obtuse fleshy, disk with a broad conical callus. 
Fieldia gigantea, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. ii. 399; Walp. Ann. vi. 871. 
Vanda gigantea, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7326; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 215; Fol. 
Orchid. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 5189. Reichb. f. l. c. 38, t. 112; TU. Hortic. 1861, 
277; Rev. Hortic. 1874, t. 291. V. Lindleyana, Griff. Notul. iii. 353. 
TzNassERIM ; at Moulmein, Wallich, Griffith. 
Stem pendulous. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 2-3 in., very thick, flat. Raceme 10-15 in., 
decurved, many.-fld.; rachis very stout; bracts short, broad; flowers 3 in. diam.; 
lateral sepals horned behind below the tip.—Griffith describes two sterile stamens 
between the lateral sepals and petals. 
2. S. undulatus, Benth. mss.; flowers 1} in. diam. nearly white, 
Sepals and petals spathulately oblanceolate waved, base of lip saccate 
adnate to the sides of the column, midlobe laterally compressed 3-ridged 
Vanda undulata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 49; Reichb. f. in Gard 
Chron. 1875, ii. 212 ; 1878, i. 168.. 
Eastern SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Sikkim and Bhotan, ascending to 6000 ft. 
The Knasra Hrrrs, alt. 5-6000 ft. . 
Stem 6-10 in.; sheaths and scape minutely warted. Leaves 8-4 by 4-3 in., 
unequally obtusely 2-lobed. Scape 5-8 in. and raceme strict, erect, laxly few-fid. 
near the top; bracts 4 in. long, broad, obtuse; flowers white flushed with pink or 
purplish ; sepals acuminate, undulate, lateral deflexed ; petals similar but smaller ; 
lip yellow, base orbicular, sides streaked with pink; midlobe linguiform; tip 
truncate, sometimes purplish ; pollinia globose, strap short, gland large transverse. — 
I am very doubtful as to the affinity of this plant, which differs from $. giganteus 
In the base of the lip being adnate to the sides of the column, and forming with it a 
cup with a thickened rim. 
52. ARACHNANTHE, Blume. 
Characters of Stauropsis, but lip jointed on to the base of the column 
and mobile.—Species 5 or 6, Himalayan and Malayan. 
sp This character of the mobile lip requires confirmation in the living plant of some 
ecies, 
.* Flowers in simple racemes, Side lobes of lip much smaller than the 
midlobe, 
l A. Catheartii, Benth. in Gen. Plant. ii, 573; scape few-fld., 
lateral sepals and petals broadly elliptic obtuse, side lobes of lip small 
rounded. Esmeralda Cathcartii, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. i. 38; Walp. 
Ann. vi. 871. Vanda Cathcartii, Hook. f. Ill. Himal. Pl. t. 23; Bot. Mag. 
t. 5845; Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 8; Ill. Hortic. 1858, 187 ; Flore des Ker. t. 1251 : 
Warner Orchid. Alb. &. 168; Jenning's Orchid. t. 10; Floral Mag. N. S. 
` 66; Gard. Chron. 1870, 1409. 
