Vanilla.) CXLVIII. OROHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 91 
5. V. albida, Blume Bijdr. 422, t. 34; Rumph. i. 197, t. 67 ; leaves 
ovate lanceolate elliptic or oblong cuspidate or acuminate, lip oblong sub- 
panduriform margins undulate and serrate, disk of hypochile with a large 
globose woolly ball, epichile retuse or 2-lobed strongly echinately 
Gruncled. Lind. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 435. V. Griffithii, Reichb. f. in 
Bonpland. ii. (1854), 88. Vanilla, sp. Griff. Notul. iii. 207; Ic. Plant. 
Asiat. t. 281. Vanilla, Wall. Cat. 7401. 
PENANG, Wallich, Curtis. PERAK, SINGAPORE, and MALACCA, Grifüth, &c.— 
ISTRIB. Java. 
Climbing to 50 ft. Leaves very variable, 3-7 by LA in., sessile or shortly 
petioled, Spikes 2-3 in. very many- and dense-fld.; bracts } in., oblong; flowers 
waxy white ; sepals 2 in. long, concave, obovate, obtuse, very thick ; petals as long, 
but thinner and many-nerved, with a thick dorsal grooved keel that abruptly ends 
ow the apex; column rather long; anther appressed to the woolly ball of the lip. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
V. APHYLLA, Blume?, ex Wight Ic. t. 931; leafless, stem angular, peduncle 
elongate as thick as a swan’s quill, racemes 3-4 in. very stout many-fid., bracts ovate 
acute, pedicel with ovary 2 in., sepals as long oblanceolate-oblong acute, petals 
very much broader obovate acute margins crenulate, hypochile of lip with rounded 
angles and two rows of bristles on the disk, epichile ovate acuminate crisped naked. 
A Tavancore, near Trevandrum, Wight—From Wight’s remarks under it I suspect 
s * a most rude representation of Lindley's V. Wightiana; if so, the 
wrens Are greatly exaggerated, and the hairs of the epichile are transferred to the 
e. 
77. CORYMBIS, Thouars. 
D ei terrestrial, rigid, leafy herbs, roots fibrous. Leaves broad, plaited. 
overs in short axillary stiff sessile spreading panicles. Sepals and petals 
Y narrow, linear, at first cohering in a tube with spreading tips, per- 
3 nl. Lip erect from the base of the column, linear, channelled, tip 
ti he and recurved. Column usually as long as the petals, erect, terete, 
eM avate and 2-lobed or -auricled; rostellum at length 2-fid.; stigma 
i » transverse, saccate; anther narrow, erect, acuminate, 2-celled ; pollinia 
Tate, attached by a subulate caudicle to a peltate gland. Capsule linear 
usi orm.— Species 6—7, tropical. 
€. veratrifolia, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. 125, t. 42 E, 43 £.1 
(orymborehig) ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, flowers 1-11 
lancea sepals and petals subsimilar narrowly oblanceolate, blade of lip 
acuminate, ribs of capsule smooth. C. disticha, Lindl. Fol. 
(in part). Macrostylis disticha, Breda Gen. 4 Sp. Orchid. 
Lind], Qj. ^ Hysteria veratrifolia, Reinw. in Bot. Zeit. 1525, i 
t 78 Cn. § Sp. Orchid, 439. Rhyncanthera paniculata, Blume yar. 
£24 Orymborchis assamica, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. 126, t. 43, 
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Zem H i i i ifith, Jenkins.. 
C IMALAYA; in tropical ravines, J. D. H. Assam, Griffith, Jenkins. 
mnt ONG, J. D. m d T. Pr ANDAMAN IsranDs, King's Collector. Maray 
Cerion. o Maingay, Ze, MALABAR ; the Nilghiri Hills and Courtallam, Wight. 
Stem 4 atturatte, Moon.—DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. ` d the 
sheaths high, as thick as a swan's quill, Leaves 12-18 in., sessile on re 
+t in, ves very many^and strong. Panicles 4-6 in. long and broad; brac s 
Blume $ Svate-lanceo]ate ; flowers greenish white; column long. Capsule, in Ie. 
one oder ` Die Tam not sure that the plants from the above localities are all of 
= The Sikkim and Assam ones are in a young state only ; the Perak and 
