90 CXLVIII. oROHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Galeola. 
Mr. Cathcart’s drawing represents a portion of a stem as thick as the little 
finger, bearirfg a branched panicle a foot long, which, as well as the flowers, is dull 
yellow and furfuraceous; the flowers are 1-1} in. diam., the lip not nearly as concave 
as in G. Hydra, yellow with red veins.—A remarkable plant, very unlike its con- 
geners, but the drawing of the habit, column, anther, and pollen leave no doubt as 
to its genus. 
76. VANILLA, Swartz. 
Climbing, rooting, branched, leafy or leafless shrubs; stems terete or 
angled. Leaves subsessile, coriaceous or fleshy. Peduneles short, axillary ; 
flowerslarge. Sepals and petals subequal, spreading. Lip with the claw 
adnate to the column, which is embraced by its broad concave limb. 
Column elongate; anther incumbent, cells separate; pollen granular. 
Capsule long, fleshy, 1-celled, loculicidally 3-valved, without septa.— 
Species about 20, tropical. 
The Indian species of this genus are most scantily represented in Herbaria, and 
imperfectly by drawings or descriptions. 
* Stem leafless, 
l. V. Walkeriee, Wight Ic. t. 932; stem very stout, flowers 2 in. 
long, sepals oblanceolate, petals broader spathulately obovate acute margins 
undulate, epichile of lip ovate acute margins undulate, disk with two 
ridges below the middle. Thwaites Enum. 311. 
TRAVANCORE and TrEvANDRUM, Wight. CEYLON, Walker. 
Stem as thick as the thumb. Racemes 5-6 in., many-fld. ; flowers white ; bracts 
ovate. 
2. V. Wightiana, Lindl. in Wight Cat. 2091; flowers 1 in. long, 
sepals linear-oblong, petals lanceolate, epichile of lip ovate, its disk fringed 
with long hairs. V.aphylla, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 436, in part (not 
of Blume). 
The DECCAN PENINSULA, Wight. 
The specimens are very imperfect, and the description of the flowers is taken from 
a rude sketch by Lindley. The flowers are not half the size of those of 
V. Walkerie. 
3. V. Parishii, Heichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. 39; flowers 1-1} in. long, 
sepals linear-oblong, tips dilated cuspidate, petals broadly oblanceolate 
acuminate, lip trumpet-shaped, epichile small ovate or rounded crispe 
with a thick belt of long hairs down the centre and a dense brush at the 
base, side lobes with long scattered hairs within. 
TENASSERIM, Parish. 
This may prove the same as V. Wightiana, Lindl. It is very near the Javanese 
V. aphylla, Blume. 
** Stem leafy. 
4. V. Moonii, Thwaites Enum. 312; leaves elliptic- or linear-oblong 
often falcate obtusely acuminate, lip with a broad crenulate undulate 
apex, a thick pencil of excessively fine hairs on the disk, and beyond it 
towards the apex some loose flexuous bristles. 
Leaves 5-7 in., many-nerved, subsessile. Spikes 1-3 in., very stout, many-fid. ; 
bracts ovate, 1 in., obtuse; sepals about 1 in. long; pencil of hairs on the disk 
terminating below in a stout stipe, hairs of equal length forming a truncate brush. 
