CXXV. OBCHIBACE^. 703 



oblong, subobtuse ; dorsal sepal f by ^ in., obovate-oblong. Petals 

 greenish-yellow veined with red, ^ by ^ in., oblanceolate, obtuse. Lip 

 nearly | in. long by i in. broad, 2-auricled at the base, subpandurate, 

 purple with yellow villous border ; side lobes obscure ; midlobe rounded, 

 retuse. Capsules l^-Si in. long, narrowly fusiform, acutely angled, 

 ri. B. I. V. 6, p. 26 r Dalz. & Gibs. p. 263 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7099 ; Trim. 

 1^1. Ceyl. V. 4, p. 203 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899; 

 p. 519. — Flowers : Apr.-May. 



Konkan: Stocks I, Lawl, Woodrow, 7 I; South Konkan, Balzell, 4! Kanaka: N. 

 Kauara, Woodrow; Supa, ^zVc/iu?, 1424 !— Distrib. India (W. PeuinsiUa) ; Ceylon. 



21. VANDA, E. Br. 



Epiphytic herbs ; stems leafy. Leaves thickly coriaceous or fleshy, flat 

 and keeled, or terete. Flowers large and often showy, axillary, in simple 

 lax or dense racemes, or sometimes solitary ; floral bracts much shorter 

 than the ovary. Sepals spreading or connivent, narrowed at the base. 

 Petals like the sepals. Lip large, usually saccate or spurred at the base; 

 side lobes large or small (rarely obsolete), adnate to the short foot of the 

 column or to the sides of the sac or spur ; midlobe fleshy, various ; disk 

 usually ridged or lamellate, sometimes carunculate. Column short, stout, 

 with or without a short foot ; anther 2-celled ; rostellum small ; 

 pollinia 2, didymous, globose, ovoid or obovoid ; caudicle short and broad 

 or long and geniculate ; gland usually large. — Distrib. Tropical Asia 

 and Australia ; species about 20. 



Stem 4-6 in. long ; flowers less than 1 in. across, yellow except 



the blue fleshy ridges on the lip ; capsule 1-1| in. Jong I. V. parviflora. 



Stem 12-24 in. long ; flowers l|-2 in. across ; sepals and petals 

 greenish with brown nerves ; midlobe of lip violet ; capsule 

 3 in. long 2. V. Roxburghii. 



1. Vanda parviflora, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 30 (1844) Misc. p. 45. 

 Stem stout, 3-6 in. long, leafy, clothed with the remains of sheaths of 

 fallen leaves, emitting large vermiform roots. Leaves 3-8 by |— | in., 

 linear-oblong, conduplicate, keeled, unequally and obtusely 2-lobed at 

 the apex. Elowers in few-flowered racemes from below tlie leaves and 

 about as long as them ; rhachis of raceme stout ; bracts -Jg i'^- long, 

 ovate, acute ; peduncles about as long as the racemes ; pedicels with 

 ovary |— f in. long. Sepals yellow ; lateral sepals 1 by ^ in., broadly 

 obovate or suborbicular ; dorsal sepal slightly longer than the lateral, 

 i in. broad, obovate-oblong. Petals yellow, i by y\j- in., spathulate- 

 oblong. Lip i in. long, adnate to the foot of the column, spurred ; spur 

 narrowly infundibuliform, curved at the tip ; side lobes erect, oblong, 

 rounded, rising from the mouth of the spur; midlobe fleshy, sub- 

 quadrately obovoid, decurved, the tip dilated, crenulate, truncate or retuse; 

 disk whitish, with 2 broad fleshy lilac-colored ridges. Column short 

 with a short foot ; anther depressed ; pollinia subglobose ; caudicle 

 broad, short. Capsules 1-1 1 in. long, clavate or fusiform, with winged 

 ridges. PL B. I. v. 6, p. 50; Wight, Icon. t. 1669; Trim. PL Ceyl. 

 v. 4, p. 192 ; King & Panthng, in Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) 

 p. 215, t. 286 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519 ; 

 Prain, Beng. PL p. 1021. brides Wightianum, Lindl. in Wall. 



