Tas. 7968. 
VANDA pumILa. 
Native of Stkkim. 
Nat. Ord. Onchipex.—Tribe Vannes. 
Genus Vanna, BR. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 578.) 
Vanpa pumila; herba epiphytica caulibus brevibus, foliis distichis confertis 
recurvis linearibus canaliculatis 4-8 poll. longis 6-9 lin. latis apice 
oblique 3-dentatis, racemis axillaribus erectis spe 3-floris folia vix ex- 
cedentibus, floribus suaveolentibus eburneis, labello sanguineo striatis, 
circiter 2-poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque similibus oblongo-spathulatis, 
petalis angustioribus, labelli obconico-calcarati lobis lateralibus brevibus 
triangularibus acutis intermedio vittato ovato-oblongo apice obtuse 
breviterque acuminato, capsula clavata alata circiter bipollicari. 
V. pumila, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 53. King & Pantling in Ann, 
Calc. Bot. Gard. vol. v. p. 45, t. 68, et vol. viii. p. 216, t, 288, 
V. cristata, var., Lindl. Fol. Oreh., Vanda, p. 10. 
Lindley, who treated this species as a variety of his 
V. cristata (B. M. t. 4304), only knew it from Cathcart’s. 
drawing in the Kew Herbarium; but it differs from that 
and the allied V. alpina, Lindl., in the longer spur-sac of 
the lip, and the absence of horns on the tip of the lip. It 
was first described as a distinct species by Sir Joseph 
Hooker in the place cited above, and subsequently figured 
by Sir George King and Mr. Pantling twice over; the 
first figure being a very poor one. 
Although V. pumila and its allies cannot compare for 
beauty with V. tricolor, V. insignis and other congeners, 
it is a very pretty, free-growing orchid, having deliciously 
fragrant flowers. It inhabits hot valleys of the Sikkim 
Himalaya, at about 2,000 feet above sea-level, and there- 
fore requires tropical treatment. In its native haunts it 
flowers, or begins to flower, in May. 
___ The specimen figured was sent to us in June, 1903, by — 
Mr. F. W. Moore, the Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanic 
Gardens ; the only place in the United Kingdom, so far as 
we know, where it is in cultivation. | 
Descr.—An epiphytical herb. Stems short. Leaves 
densely distichous, recurved, narrow, channelled, four to 
eight inches long, six to nine lines broad, obliquely three- 
August lst, 1904, 
