Sairanthus.'] Ol'chldecs. 1 99 



Trop. Himalaya, Assam, Burma, China. 



Lindley describes the spurs of Vanda inidtiflora as glabrous and 

 inappendiculate within ; but in all the specimens that I have examined 

 ''including Lindley's) there is a hairy plate within the sac descending 

 f'om the mouth on the opposite side from the column (not dorsal, as 

 stated in Fl. B. Ind.). A note of Dr. Trimen's says that the Ceylon plant 

 in the Peradeniya Garden exactly resembles Lindley's figure, which was 

 taken from a Chinese specimen that flowered in England. 



9. S. 'Wig-htianum, Hk. f. in FL B. Ind. vi. 62 (1890). 

 Acampe JVigktiana, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Acampe, 2; Thw. Enum. 303. 

 C. P. 2342. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 62. Wight, Ic. t. 1670 {Vanda Wightiana). 



Stem 12-18 in., as thick as the little finger, covered with 

 leaf sheaths except towards the top; internodes short; roots 

 long, very stout; 1. 4-6 by \\ in., ligulate, thickly coriaceous, 

 flat, unequally 2-lobed, lobes rounded, sinus acute; panicle 

 supra-axillary, 1-2 in., very stout, with many cupular sheaths 

 at the base of the ped., simple or sparingly shortly branched; 

 bracts very small, ovate persistent; pedicel with ov., \-\ in.; 

 fl. f in broad; sep. and pet. subequal, obovate-oblong, obtuse; 

 lip small, rather shorter than the sep., side lobes small, obtuse, 

 mid lobe ovate, obtuse, fleshy, sac short, rounded ; anth. 

 umbonate, pollinia 2, large, globose, strap short, very slender, 

 gland small; fr. 1-^-3 in., subclavate or fusiform, subsessile. 



Low country to 3000 ft.; rare. Jaffna (Gardner); Hantane. Fl. Sept.; 

 sep. and pet. pale yellow, sparingly barred or spotted with red, lip white, 

 with a few transverse red stripes. 



Also in S.W. India. Possibly not distinct from 6". longifolium. 



S. congestum, Hk. f., is stated by Lindley (Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 61) 

 to be from Ceylon, in Loddiges' collection. The cultivated specimen 

 in his Herbarium is dated 1839. The figure in Wight, Ic. t. 1672 

 (5. papillosum), is referred to the same species in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. viridijlortiin, Lindl. There is a figure of this in Herb. Kew, with 

 the locality ' near Kandy,' according to Fl. B. Ind. vi. 63. But Dr. Trimen 

 did not consider'its claim to be a native sufficient. 



S. airvifoliiivi^ Lindl. Given from 'Ceylon (Macrae)' in Lindl. Gen. 

 and Sp. Orch. 222. May probably have been in cultivation, but it is not 

 known in a wild state in Ceylon. 



■^l. SARCANTHUS, Lindl. 



Characters of Saccolabiuin, but with the cavity of the 

 spur of the lip vertically divided by a septum from base to 

 about half way up or higher, but not reaching the mouth; 

 a callus is present within the spur below the column, and 

 another opposite to it. — Sp. about 40; 18 in Fl. B. Ind. 



