53 cXLviit oRcHIDEE, (J. D. Hooker.) ( Vanda. 
leaves broad obtusely 2-lobed, peduncle short stout erect, bracts large, 
flowers 2 in. diam., fleshy spotted mauve-brown or purple, lateral sepals 
broadly ovate-oblong and orbicular petals apiculate, lip half as long as the 
sepals, side lobes rounded, midlobe small cuneately flabelliform. Reichb. 
f. Xen. Orchid. ii. 188; in Gard. Chron. 1870, 890; Warner Orchid. Alb. 
t. 15, and 61 (var.). 
TENAsSSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 
Stem very short, stout. Leaves few, 8-10 by 2-3 in. Peduncle very short; 
raceme 6-8 in., drooping, 6-8-fld.; bracts acuminate; flowers variable in colour. 
The short stems and broad flat leaves are not those of Vanda proper, and more 
resemble Stauropsis or Arachnanthe. In var. Marriottiana, Reichb. f. in Gard. 
Chron. 1880, 743 ; 1881, 726, the sepals and petals are mauve, the side lobes of the 
lip white with mauve stripes and 2 yellow blotches below the column, and the mid. 
lobe is carmine. In var. purpurea, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1883, 307, the sepals 
and petals are mauve-purple with white bases, and the lip bright mauve. 
10. V. bicolor, Griff. Notul. iii. 354; It. Notes, 122, No. 540; le. 
Plant. Asiat. t. 330; leaves premorse, peduncle short erect 4-6-fld., 
flowers 2 in. diam. brownish-purple obscurely tessellate, waved, lateral 
sepals obovate deflexed, dorsal small, lip nearly as long as the sepals, purple 
side lobes large orbicular, midlobe small panduriform, tip contracted 2-lobed. 
Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 6; Walp. Ann. vi. 867; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 
1875, 620. 
EASTERN TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Sikkim (Jc. in Herb. Calcutt.); Bhotan, 
alt. 2000 ft. Griffith. Assam (Ic. in Herb. Calcutt.). 
Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 6-10 in., sometimes unequally rather obtusely 2-lobed. 
Scape very stout; bracts ovate, acute; dorsal sepal much the smallest, dilated 
in the middle; petals clawed, spathulate; side lobes of lip margined with yellow. 
Capsule almost a span long.—Near V. Roxburghii, but at once distinguishable by 
the large orbicular side lobes of thelip. A little-known species. 
ll. V. Roxburghii, Br. i» Bot. Reg. i. 506; leaves praemorses 
raceme suberect, flowers 13-2 in. diam. tesselated with brown, sepals and 
petals subequal clawed obovate waved, lip nearly as long as the sepals, 
side lobes small acute, midlobe panduriform violet tip dilated truncate 
2-lobed. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 215 ; Fol. Orchid. 2; Wight Ic. t. 916; 
Fl. des Serres, ii.t. 11; Paxt. Fl. Gard. £.49,£. 9; Reichb. Fl. Exot. t. 12l ; 
Ill. Hort. t. 185 (var.). V. tesselloides, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 864 
Cymbidium tesselloides, Roab. Fl. Ind. iii. 463. C. tessellatum, Swartz 1? 
ov. Act. Upsal. vi. 75; Willd. Sp. PL. iv. 102; Roxb. Fl. Ind. l. c. 
Alagnata, Herb. Ham. Epidendrum tessellatum. Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 95 
t. 42. Ærides tessellatum, Wight in Wall. Cat. 7318; Lindl. Gen. d Sp. 
Orchid. 240.—V anda, Jones in Asiat. Res. iv. 309. 
BENGAL, BEHAR and westwards to GUZERAT and the Concan, and southwards 
to TRAVANCORE, TENASSERIM and CEYLON. 
Stem 1-2 ft., climbing. Leaves 6-8 in., narrow, complicate. Pedunele 6-8 in. 
6-10-fid. ; sepals and petals yellowish-green or blueish except from the clathrate- 
brown nerves, margins white ; lip half as long as the sepals or more, disk of midlobe 
convex with fleshy ridges and white margins and mesial lines; spur conical.— 
Reichenbach in Gard. Chron, 1883, i. 9, describes a var. Wightiana, with purple lip, 
the side lobes with more or less developed anterior teeth. ‘I'he colouring in the H e 
des Serres, ii. t. 11, is unlike that of any form known to me. Roxburgh distin* 
guishes his C. tessellatum from his C. tesselloides, by the former having the lip 
with the sides incurved into a tube, and the blade tapering entire acute; whilst 12 
the latter the lip is channelled above, concave underneath, and the tip of 2 obtuse 
lobes. The latter (the typical V. Rozburghii) is the only form known to Indian 
