1 88 OrchideCB. [Aerides. 



Nov. -April, July; white, more or less dotted with violet-pink, lip strongly 

 tinged with the same colour. 



Indian Peninsula, Trop. Himalaya, Malay Islands. 



Called 'Fox-tail Orchid' or ' Batticaloa Orchid' by the English 

 residents. The most beautiful of our native species. 



27. DORZTZS, Lwd/. 

 Epiphytes; stem short, stout, leafy, pseudobulb o; 1. 

 sessile, distichous, broad, coriaceous ; ped. leaf-opposed, simple 

 or paniculately branched, flexuous, few-fld.; sep. and narrower 

 pet. spreading, obovate or oblong, lateral sep. adnatc to the 

 foot of the column, oblong, subfalcate; mentum short, coni- 

 cal; pet. as long, linear-oblong; lip shortly clawed, 3-lobed, 

 disk with a bicuspidate callus; column short, broad, margins 

 winged, foot o; anth. low, acuminate, 2-celled, pollinia 2, 

 waxy, strap long, slender, gland small. — Sp. 6; 2 in f/. B. Ind. 



D. Wig-htii, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 574 (1883). 

 D. latifolia, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 89 (1885). Phalcenopsis Wtghtii, 

 Reichb. f. Aeridcs latij'olia., Thw. Enum. 429. C. P. 3495. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 32. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. v. t. 59, and viii. t. 265. 



Stem very short, clothed with green leaf-sheaths, emitting 

 long vermiform roots; 1. jointed on the sheaths, 4-7 by 

 \\-2\ in., obovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or cuspidate, 

 coriaceous, keeled beneath, margins undulate, sheath very 

 short; ped. one or more, simple or branched, with the panicle 

 6-18 in. long, flexuous, green, spotted with red, branches few, 

 3-4 in., spreading, forming strict racemes with a stout rhachis; 

 bracts minute, pedicels with ov. \~\ in.; sep. i in. long, obtuse, 

 dorsal linear-oblong, lateral rather broader; pet. rather 

 narrower; side lobes of lip spreading, mid lobe obcordate, 

 cusps of calli pointing forward. 



Moist region below 1000 ft.; rare. Hiniduma; near Ratnapura. Fl. 

 September; sep. and pet. white, lip veined with violet or pink. 



S.W. India, E. Himalaya, Burma. 



There arc two drawings of this plant in Herb. Perad.: one (C. P. 3495) 

 has a solitary, oval, apparently coriaceous, very dark green leaf, spotted 

 with red, about 4 by lA in., and a simple dull Ijlue peel, terminating in a 

 raceme ; the other represents a much larger plant, with 4 leaves, the 

 largest 7^ by li in., very pale green, with conspicuous veins and cross- 

 vcnules, margins waved ; the ped. is branched, green, spotted with red, 

 and with the panicle 16 in. long, it has narrower sep. and pet. than the 

 other.— J. 1). II. 



28. AERZDES, Lour. 



Epiphytes; stem elongate, leafy, rooting; 1. loratc or terete, 

 coriaceous; fl. few or many, in la.x or dcnsc-fld. dccurvcd leaf- 

 opposed racemes or panicles; sep. broad, spreading, adnate to 



