Va/i(/n.] Orchidece. 191 



longer than the sep., base (or hypochile, quadrate, saccate, 

 shorter and narrower than the broadly cordate, obtuse, 

 obscurely 3-lobed fleshy limb (or epichile); fr. |-i| in. 



Moist region to 4000 ft.; on trees, rather common. Hantane. FL 

 April ; sep. and pet. pale purplish-yellow, base of lip green, spotted with 

 purple, tongue daik purple. 



Also in S. W. India, E. Bengal, Burma, Malaya, Polynesia. 



2. Xf. tenuifolia, Bl. Rmnphia, iv. 50 (1848). 



Lindl. Fol. Orch. Luisia 2 ; Thw. Enum. 302. Cymbidiunt tenuifoliian, 

 Lindl. Gen. and Sp. 167 (non Willd.). C. P. 3530, 2347 (part), 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 24. Wight, Ic. t. 911 {Cyvibidium trisie). 



Stem 12 in. or more, slender; 1. 4-7 in., more slender than 

 the stem, green, spreading, straight or flexuous, tip rounded ; 

 ped. with rhachis of spike \ in.; fl, few, bracts minute, per- 

 sistent; sep. f in. long, dorsal oblong, obtuse, lateral ovate- 

 oblong, subacute, concave; pet. linear, obtuse, from one third 

 longer to twice as long as the lateral sep.; lip longer than 

 the Sep., narrowly panduriform, convex, base broad, 2-auricled, 

 tip with 2 divergent lobules. 



Low country of moist region to 3000ft.; rather rare. Hantane. Fl.; 

 sep. and pet. pale yellowish-purple, lip dark purple, with a broad white 

 patch on either side, the terminal lobes pale purple. 



Also in S. W. India. 



The Fl. B. Ind. quotes for this C. P. 2347, which is chiefly L. teretifolia, 

 and (p. 26) refers C. P. 3530, which is correctly given by Thwaites as 

 L. tenuifolia, to 'probably a new species xi&?i.x filiformis.^ We have onh- 

 two species in Ceylon. — Triftien. 



The numbers were mixed in Herb. Kew, and the specimens very 

 indifferent. Judging from the drawings in Herb. Peraden., C. P. 3530 

 is, no doubt, L. tenuifolia. — J. D. H. 



Zo. VAINTDA, Br. 



Epiphytes; stem long with vermiform roots; pseudo- 

 bulb o; 1. distichous, recurved, thickly coriaceous, linear, 

 concave above, keeled, praemorse or 2-lobed; fl. large or 

 medium-sized, in peduncled stout leaf-opposed racemes or 

 panicles; sep. and pet. subequal, spreading, bases narrowed, 

 lateral sep. inserted on the base of the column ; lip smaller 

 than the sep., adnate to the base of the column, funnel-shaped, 

 3-lobed, side lobes erect, close to the column, mid lobe erect 

 or recurved, narrow or broad, spur (base of the funnel), 

 conical, subacute, straight or recurved ; column short, stout, 

 foot o; rostellum obscure; anth. 2-celled, pollinia 2, globose or 

 oblong, waxy, strap short, gland large. — Sp. about 20; 19 in 

 FL B. Ind. 



