Tab. 4304. 
VANDA CRISTATA. 
Crested Vanda. 
Nat. Ord. Orchide^. — Gynandria Monandeia- 
Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, patens, petalis sepalisque subseqiialibus. 
Labellum saccatum vel obconico-calcaratum, cum basi columnse continuum, sub- 
trilobum; lobo medio camoso. Columna crassa, libera, abbreviata, rostello 
obtuso. Anthera bdocularis. Pollinia 3, oblique biloba, caudicula lineari, 
glandula subrotunda.—Herbse epiphyta, caulescerdes. Folia disticha coriacea. 
Spicae oppositifolue. Flores speciod. Lindl. 
Vanda cristata-, foliis canaliculatis recurvis apice truncatis oblique excisis 
tridentatis, racemo erecto trifloro foliis breviore, sepalis oblongis obtusis 
fomicatis, petalis angustioribus incurvis, labelli lobis lateralibus breribus 
acutis intermedio vittato oblongo convexo apice saccato insequaliter tricomi 
cornu brevi conico. lAndl. 
Vanda cristata. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 7338. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, n. 9. Sertum 
Orchid, f. 3 in frente. Bot. Reg. 1843. t. 48. 
This has not much beauty to recommend it; but the lip is 
large, and prettily striped and variegated with blood-colour and 
yellow upon a velvety ground: and as far as the labellum is 
concerned. Dr. Wallich was quite correct in saying “ flos exqui- 
sitse pulchritudinis.” To that liberal gentleman we owe the 
possession of the species at the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it 
blooms in the latter end of winter and early in spring, enlivening 
the stove at that season with its variegated flowers. It inhabits 
trees in Nepal, where also its flowering season is the spring. 
Descr. The stems of this, without any pseudo-bulbs, attach 
themselves to the trunks of trees by coarse fleshy/im, and are 
clothed with leaves^ which imbricate at the base and are broadly 
linear, thick, and leathery, carinated at the back even to the base, 
grooved above, abrupt and irregularly three-dentate at the apex. 
Baceme from an axil of the leaf and shorter than the foliage, of 
five or six straggling, rather large flowers. Petals and sepals 
spreading, but incurved and rather concave; the former the 
narrowest, obtuse, all of the same uniform yellow-green. Lip 
large, broadly oblong, green beneath, with a short conical spur 
JUNE 1st, 1847. ® ^ 
