2.5 



25. VANDA cristata. 



Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orch. p. 210. 



This has flowered with Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting ; not 

 however very perfectly — for the flowers are greenish instead of 

 being nearly white, and they are solitary instead of being 

 on 3-flowered peduncles. It is a pretty species, from the 

 warm vallies of Nepal. The sepals and petals were greenish, 

 the lip yellow, striped with rich purple asperities and furrows ; 

 at the point it is divided into two acuminate lobes. 



26. ARUNDiNA densa. 



A. densa ; labello obovato-subrotundo quadrilobo apiculato laciuiis rotundatis, 

 lamellis 3 subaequalibus crispatis rectis, petalis oblongis, foliis sub- 

 sequalibus. 



A beautiful Orchidaceous plant from Sincapore, sent to 

 Messrs. Loddiges by Cuming. It has flowers as large as those 

 of A. bambusifolia, rosy violet, with a crimson-bordered lip, 

 sweet-scented and very handsome, forming a close head, and 

 not a long loose raceme, 



27. ERIA mucronata. 



E. mucronata (Tonsee) ; caulibus elongatis flexuosis, foliis distichis lineari- 

 lanceolatis acumiuatis, floribus solitariis glabris oppositifoliis, bracteis 

 3-5 ovato-lanceolatis pateutibiis coloratis, sepalis petalisque ovatis erectis, 

 labelli subrotundi 3-lobi lacinia intermedia emarginata ungue scopulifero, 

 lamellis 3 membranaceis integerrimis qaarum intermedia in mucrone 

 libero abit lateralibus abbreviatis. 



An Orchidaceous plant, with the habit of Dendrobium 

 chrysanthum, found at Sincapore by Cuming, has just 

 flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. Its leaves are long, fleshy, 

 finely acuminate, deep green. The flowers are white, with a 

 faint tinge of pink, deliciously sweet like violets, and pro- 

 duced singly opposite the leaves, on stalks about half an inch 

 long, covered with dull red spreading bracts. The lip is 

 nearly round, 8-lobed, with the middle segment emarginate ; 

 in its middle it has three membranous plates, the lateral of 

 which are very short, the intermediate extended into a short 

 horn, which runs up from the surface of the lip a little below 

 its apex. On the foot of the column, just beyond the joint of 



