Tyamally Hills, Coimbatore, flowering August and 

 September- 



1674-75. Saccolabitjm spiciostJM (R. W.), 

 leaves strap-shaped, obliquely emarginate at the 



The distinctive marks between Fanrfa and Mrides apex: panicle large, lateral branches few-flowered, 



are not always very clearly defined, and when nam- 

 ing this drawing 1 was misled by its similarity to 

 Vanda spatkulata, and named it accordingly. I after 

 wards discovered my mistake and beg the reader to 

 correct the name on the plate- 



1670. Vanda Wightiana? (Lind. MSS. in 



terminal one long, drooping at the apex, many- 

 flowered: sepals broad ovato-elliptic, obtuse, petals 

 rhombeo-spathulate: lip 3-Iobed, lateral ones small 

 sub-orbicular, furnished with a recurved plate; 

 middle one sub-triangular, crenate, reflexed on the 

 margins, truncate at the apex : spur tapering, shorter 

 than the lip, hooked outwards, fruit short obconical, 

 surmounted by the marcescent perianth. Flowers 



Herb. Wight), leaves strap-shaped, unequally 2- rose coloured, fining off towards the margin, lip much 



lobed at the apex: peduncles much shorter than deeper, approaching crimson, 



the leaves, divaricate : sepals and petals sub-spathu- j^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^j Paulghaut in the Malabar District, 



ate sepals a 1 equal, larger than the petals : lip 3- fl^^ering July and Auiust 



lobed ; lateral lobes short obtuse ; middle one sub- 

 orbicular, saccate at the base : fruit oblong, conicaL 



Flowers yellowish dashed with dark crimson or 

 purplish spots, lip nearly white with a red line at 

 the base of the lamina. 



lyamally Hills and Malabar, growing on branches 

 of trees. 



The specimen in my Herbarium, named by Lindley, 

 is in fruit only. Had he seen flowers he would per- 

 haps have referred it to a different genus. It seems 

 to me to associate better with Saccolahium papillo- 

 sum than with any species of Vanda with which 

 I am acquainted. I should not therefore be sur- 



An exceedingly handsome species. The lip is 

 nearly twice as large as the sepals, somewhat ventri- 

 cose above, from the margins being recurved. The 

 scale at the base is paler and curved backwards 

 towards the column. It seems to form the connect- 

 ing link between ^Erides and Saccolabium. 



1676. Saccolabium paniculatum (R. W,), leaves 

 strap-shaped, somewhat channeled, obliquely 2-lobed 



at the apex: panicles racemose, many-nowered, 

 much longer than the leaves : sepals and petals sub- 

 orbicular, obovate obtuse: petals smaller than the 

 sepals: lip ovate attenuate towards the point, with 



genus 



prhed to find this and the following removed to that g small sub-orbicular lobes at the base, and a fleshy 



gland-like appendage closing the throat of the spur : 

 spur conical, about the length of the lip. Flowers 

 nearly white with a light tinge of pink, lip streaked 

 with crimson. 



lyamally Hills, on branches of trees, flowering 



1671. 



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strap-shaped, deeply 2-cleft at the apex, segments 

 divaricate: racemes short, many-flowered: sepals 

 and petals all equal, obovate, cuniate : lip 3-lobed, 

 lateral lobes short, obtuse, middle one ovate fim- 

 briated, with a large inflated sack at the base. 

 Flowers green or yellowish, passing into white, 

 dashed with purple. 



Pendulous by its long reots from branches of trees 

 on the banks of the Kartairy river below the falls. 

 An exceedingly beautiful plant but I fear scarcely 

 referable to this genus. 



1672. Saccolabium papillosum (Lind.), leaves 

 strap-shaped, obliquely cuspidate at the apex : 

 racemes short, capitate : sepals fleshy, linear, ovate, 

 obtuse : spur of the lip obconical, obtuse, villous 



September and October. 



I have another drawing before me taken from 

 what appears a stunted less perfect specimen of the 

 plant in which the anterior sepals are represented 

 larger than the posterior, and all more ovate than 

 in the accompanying plate. They agree in other 

 respects, whence I consider it a mere variety, by 

 which this species approaches S. mvewm, Lind., but 

 which is a much smaller, the leaves being only 2^ 

 inches long and ^ of an inch broad. My specimen 

 may therefore perhaps be more properly viewed as 

 a large variety of the latter. 



1677 



n 



RIDES LiNDLETAWA (R. W.), leavcs 



within; lamina ovate, fleshy, papillose, recurved. fle8hy,c6riaceous, sub-elliptic oblong, oblique, deeply 



Flowers white and tinged with yellow and purple. 



Malabar, on branches of trees usually pendulous 

 by its long roots. 



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1673. Saccolabium rubrum (Lind.), leaves chan- 

 neled, bowed, bidentate at the apex : racemes erect, 

 many-flowered: sepals and petals ovate, obtuse: 

 spur of the lip cylindrical, obtuse, incurved ; lamina 

 oval, acuminate, fleshy at the apex, bicomiculate 

 at the base. Flowers deep rose colour, leaves mot- 

 tled with purple, pale on the under surface, 



Neilgherries, frequent on branches of trees, flow- 

 ering during the rainy season, or from May until 



October. 



I am not sure that I understand Lindley's char- 

 acter of the lip, especially the " base bicomiculate," 

 nor whether this one possesses that character. In 

 other respects this plant seems to correspond well 

 with the character. 



emarginate at the apex: racemes erect, many-flow- 

 ered: sepals and petals obovato-suborbicular, ante- 

 rior sepals somewhat larger and, like the lip, thick 

 and coriaceous : lip three-lobed attached to the point 

 of the prolonged base of the column : lateral lobes 

 small, ovate, middle one large ovate, ventricose 

 above, crisp on the margins with a large fleshy 

 lobe at the base, closing uie spur: spur short, rigid, 

 inflexed under the lamina : capsules large, obovate, 

 long pedicelled. Flowers pinkish-lilac, deeper on 

 the axis, fining ofl* to nearly white on the margins ; 

 lip the same, but much deeper coloured. 



On clefts of rocks bordering the Kartairy Falls 

 below Kaitie, also on rocky clefts on a high hill 

 over Coonoor, flowering nearly the whole year, at 

 least I gathered it in April, and I have it now, Nov., 

 in flower in pots in Coimbatore. 



It is a very handsome species, worthy of being 

 dedicated to the accomplished author of the " gen- 



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