1 9 2 Orchidece. [ Vandu 



L. 6-IO in. 



Side lobes of lip obtuse . . . . i. V. pakviflora. 



Side lobes of lip acute 2. V. Roxburghii. 



L. 2-4 in. 



Ped. very short 3- V. Thwaitesii. 



Ped. very long 4- V. spathulata. 



1. V. parviflora, Lindl. Bot. Re^^. xxx. Misc. 45 (1844). 



Aerides Wightianutn., Lindl. in Journ. Linn. .Soc. iii. 40; Thw. Enum. 

 305. A. tcstaccum, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 238. C. P. 752. 



FI. B. Ind. vi. 50. Wight, Ic. t. 1669. Bot. Mag. t. 5138. Ann. Bot. 

 Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. 286. 



Stem very stout, 4-6 in., leafy; roots very large, vermi- 

 form, up to \ in. diam.; 1. 4-8 by \-\ in., lorate, straight or 

 recurved, very unequally 2-3-lobed or toothed, lower lobe 

 sometimes \ in. below the upper, sides complicate, thickly 

 coriaceous, keeled, sheaths closely imbricate; ped. erect, 

 8-10 in., rather stout, green marbled with red; raceme 3-6 in., 

 erect, laxly many-fld.; bracts minute, ovate, pedicel with ov., 

 i-i| in.; fl. i-i^ in. across the sep., sep. and pet. obovate- 

 spathulate, many-veined and reticulate; lip rather shorter 

 than the sep., sessile, 3-cleft to below the middle, side lobes 

 oblong, obtuse, erect, mid lobe rather longer, recurved, sub- 

 quadrately obovoid, tip dilated, crenulate, truncate, or retuse, 

 disk with 2 broad fleshy ridges, spur narrowly funnel-shaped 

 with an incurved tip, column very short; anth. depressed, 

 pollinia globose, strap linear, gland orbicular; fr. \\-2 in., 

 fusiform, or narrowly pyriform, erect, ribs acute, pedicel 

 ^-| in., stout. 



Low moist country up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Galle (Champion); 

 about Peradeniya. Fl. March ; sep. and pet. cream-coloured, lip white, 

 with purple markings. 



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



The Bot. Mag. figure shows much more brightly coloured flowers. 



2. V. Rozburg-hii, Br. in Bot. Rt\q. vi. t. 506 (1S20). 

 Thw. Enum. 303. C. P. 2346. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 52. Bot. Reg. t. 506. Wight, Ic. t. 916. 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout, scandent by the stout simple and 

 branching roots; internodes short, lower with brown sheaths; 

 1. 6-8 in., narrow, recurved, complicate, obtusely keeled, 

 thickly coriaceous, praemorse with usually 2 unequal rounded 

 lobes and a short acute interposed one, sheaths closely im- 

 bricate; ped. with the raceme 6-8 in., 6-io-fld., stout, green, 

 with a few distant empty short sheaths; bracts minute, ped. 

 with ov. 1^-2 in.; fl. 2^ in. broad, sep. and pet. subequal, 

 obovate, clawed, more or less waved, lateral sep. largest ; lip 

 -<mall, funnel-shaped, side lobes small, erect, acute, mid lobe 

 j)anduriform, constricted below the bifid tij^ disk tumid with 



