2 20 OrchidecB. {Vanilla. 



2. T. bambusifolia, Trim. Svsl. Cat. Ceyl. 90(1885). 

 Cneniidia ba)nbusifolia, Thw. Enum. 314. C. P. 3207. 

 FI. B. Ind. vi. 94. 



Stem 2-3 ft, as thick as a crow's quill or thicker, lower 

 12-14 i"- naked ; 1. 4-9 by i-2f in., oval or oval-lanceolate, 

 acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base acute, 5-7-veined, 

 veinlets very slender, sheaths strongly ribbed ; spikes stoutly 

 pcduncled, \-2 in. long, stout, clothed with imbricating oval 

 or oblong strongly ribbed coriaceous green sheaths ; spike very 

 short, bracts ovate-lanceolate. 



Moist region ; rare. Adam's Peak (Gardner) ; Katukande ^Thwaites) ; 

 Lihinigala, Hewesse. Fl. June, July. 

 Endemic. 

 The specimens are wanting in fl. and fr. 



52. VANZZ.ZiA, Sw. 



Stem terete, green, branching, climbing by aerial roots, 

 leafy or leafless ; 1. alt., sessile or subsessile, oblong oval or 

 lanceolate, fleshy or coriaceous, without evident midrib or 

 veins, base not sheathing ; fl. large, in short axillary racemes 

 or spikes ; bracts short ; perianth infundibular, sep. and pet 

 subequal, spreading and recurved from an erect base ; lip erect, 

 inserted on the base of the column which it embraces by a 

 convolute claw, that gradually dilates into an entire trumpet- 

 formed limb with recurved margins, disk with 2 pubescent 

 ridges ; column long, narrow ; anth. terminal, incumbent, 

 mitriform, deciduous, 2-celled ; pollinia free, powdery, oblong, 

 without strap or gland ; fr. a long, slender, fleshy, terete or 

 trigonous berry, indehiscent, or at length loculicidally 3-valved. 

 — Sp. 50; 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. imperfect or o i. V. Walkeri/E. 



L. 5-7 in. long 2. V. MOONII. 



I. V. Walkeriae, Wight, Ic. iii. 3, i (1845). 



Thw. Enum. 311. Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxii. 474. C. P. 2964. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 90. Wight, Ic. t. 932. 



Stem as thick as the middle finger, flcxuous, terete, deeply 

 channelled; 1. farrested) ^-i^ in., lanceolate, acuminate; fl. in 

 very stout many-fld, racemes 5-6 in, long, with broadly ovate, 

 acute bracts, pedicel with ov. 1A-2 in. long; fl. 3 in. broad; 

 sep. \\ in. long, broadly oblanccolate, subacute; pet. broader, 

 spathulatcly obovatc, margins thin, waved ; lip i^, in. long, 

 broadly obovatc-oblong, undulate, crenatc, side lobes o, tip 



