GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 43 
in the high mountains of Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr. Hooker : from seeds sent by the latter our plants were raised in the 
Royal Gardens of Kew.— Bot. Mag., t. 4599. 
519. VANDA PEDUNCULARIS. Lindley. A hothouse epiphyte from Ceylon, with distichous 
two-lobed leaves, and brown and purple bee-like flowers. Blossoms in March. Introduced by 
G. Read, Esq. (Fig. 253; a, the flower slightly magnified ; 4, the pollen-masses and caudicle.) 
When enumerating the known species of Vanda at Plate 42 of our last volume, this was mentioned as not being in 
cultivation. On the 22nd of March of the present year, we had, however, the pleasure to receive specimens in flower 
of Ceylon, where it was first found by the late Mr. 
flowers are pale green, or yello ather sweet- 
scented, with a deep purple fleshy lip bordered with 
green, and hairy at the ap oh 80 | resemble en 
of the species of 8. 
hr 
six to twelve together, fd. de ومس يطو‎ pé of 
peduncles sometimes as much as three feet long 
and even furnished with side branches, these flowers 
wave about in the air with all the appearance of 
nimal life, and are quite as much like hairy insects 
as our own wild Bee and Spider Orchises. 
In some respects this * n: a tus اسلا‎ 5 
nollen 
pollen 
out on one side, the caudicula is unusually long and 
slender, and the lip is in no degree saceate—on the 
he di 
leaved East Indian Orchids shall pe p 
reinvestigated. In the mean while 
ollowing technical description of its cha dais — 
* Labellum carnosum, margine tenerius, pal- 
lescens, Mem e leviter emarginatum. 0 atro- 
ureo, ssile, immobile, lineá medianá ex 
pallidá, in i osi apicem desin basi 
auricula am carnosius; tuberculo parvo bar- 
sstivatione ab apice involutum. lumna Beni 
e tomentosa, anticé utrinque unidentata ; stig- 
Anthera 
altè excavato veta loool, 
anticó membran pieulo recurvo.  Pollinia 4, 
geminata, aurantiaca, deltoiden, i in — caudiculæ 
l g subrotundá 
518. ACROPERA FLAVIDA. Klotzsch. An 
epiphyte, with pale yellow flowers. Native 
of Mexico. Introduced by Mrs. Lawrence. 
A. pseudobulbis ovatis, apice attenuatis, bifoliatis; ; 
— oblongis tri-quinquecostatis, acuminatis » basi 
reus glabris, —— mbranaceis, omits 
is 5 wed tle supremo galeato 
ino ; germini- 
bus cmn scabridis is pedicellsque. pallide fia fla ione 
This plant flowered in July, 1851, in the garde 
iiie apicul 
