ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



By G. a. Gammie, f.l.s. 



Part IX (With Plate IX). [Continued from page 141 



of this vohime). 



20. VANDA. 



Epiphytes with two-ranked leafy stems. Leaves thick, folded on 

 the midrib. Flowers in loose, erect racemes ; bracts small ; sepals and 

 petals subequal, narrowed at the base ; lip smaller than those, side-lobes 

 small, disk ridged, midlobe fleshy, dilated and two-lobed at apex ; 

 column short, stout ; foot very shortly produced ; anther 2-celled, 

 pollinia 2, didymous, globose or obovoid, gland rather large. 

 Stem 3 to 6 inches long, Jlower f inch in 

 diameter, sepals and petals yellow, lip 



pink „ 1. V. parviflora. 



Stem 2 feet long, Jlower 2 inches in 

 diameter, sepals and petals yellow 

 with netted brown nerves, lip fiddle- 

 shaped, violet , 2. V. Roxburghii. 



Stem 8 inches long, /lowers as in 2, but 



lip white 2a. V. Roxburghii var. 



Spooneri. 

 1. Vanda pabviflora, Lindl. ; Fl. Br. Ind., VI., p. 50 ; T. 

 Cooke, Fl. of Bombay, II, p. 703 ; brides Wightianum, Lindl. ; 

 Dalz. and Gibs. p. 265. 



Stem stout, 3 to 6 inches long, invested with the brown bases of 

 fallen leaves. Leaves 3 to tS inches long, and i inch broad, linear- 

 oblong, folded, unequally 2-lobed at the tips. Inflorescence erect, 

 arising from the axil below the first gi-een leaf, shorter than or slightly 

 exceeding the leaves, (jracts ^^2 i^^^^ long, ovate acute. Flowers 

 f inch in expanse, from 4 to 15, arranged on the upper half of the 

 axis, stalks and ovaries | inch long below, becoming shorter upwards ; 

 sepals yellow, dorsal obovate, oblong, slightly longer than the lateral 

 which are obovate ; petals yellow, spathulate oblong, about as long as 

 the sepals ; lip white, suffused with pink, very short, side-lobes erect, 

 ovate, dull pink with darker spots, midlobe shortly obovoid, tip dilated, 

 refuse, disk with 2 fleshy, curved ridges, spur narrowly funnel-shaped, 

 lirected backwards, column short. 



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