Vanpa. ] ORCHIDACEE. 209 
foot; stigma small. Anther terminal, rounded ; pollinia 2, elliptic, 
attached by a long slender caudicle te a small oblong gland.— 
Species 2 or 3, Indian and Malayan. 
R. retusa, Blume Bijdr. 286, t. 49; F. B. I. vi, 82; K. & P. 
Ann. R. Boi. Gard. Calc. viii, 213, t. 284 ; Duthie id. ix, part 2, 143 ; 
Prain Beng. Pi. 1020; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 698. Saccolabium 
guttatum, Lindl. ; Royle Ill. 366. rides guttatum, Roxb. Fl. 
Ind. iii, 471. Epidendrum retusum, Linn. 
Stems stout, 3-8 in. long, clothed with the sheaths of decayed leaves 
and emitting marty stout branching roots. Leaves 6-18 in. long 
and 3-1} in. wide, strap-shaped, spreading and recurved, obliquely 
premorse or bluntly and unequally 2-lobed at the apex. Racemes 
dense, cylindric, longer than the leaves. Flowers about ? in. across, 
white or pale-pink, dotted with darker-coloured spots; bracts 3'5- 
} in. long, ovate, acute, persistent. Sepals veined, about } in. long ; 
lateral pair obliquely obovate-orbicular ; dorsal one obovate, rounded. 
Petals as long as the sepals, elliptic-oblong, subobtuse. Lip dark- 
pink, with a saccate flattened spur; epichile variable in shape, } 1n. 
long, oblong or cuneate-oblong at the base, widening towards the 
apex. Capsule 1-14 in. long, acutely 3-angled and 6-ribbed, its 
pedicel short and stout. 
Dehra Dun (King, Mackinnon, etc.) ; Siwalik range (Royle) ; N. Oudh, 
in the Gonda district (Duthie). Flowers during June and July. 
Distris.: Trop. Himalaya from the Punjab eastwards to Nepal, 
Sikkim and Bhutan, up to 4,000 ft., also in Assam, the Khasia Hills, 
Chota Nagpur, Konkan and Kanara; extending to Burma, S. 
India, Ceylon and the Malay Islands. 
17. VANDA, R. Br.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 49. 
Epiphytes with leafy stems. Leaves thickly coriaceous or 
fleshy, flat and keeled or terete. Flowers usually large and often 
showy, in simple lax or dense racemes, sometimes solitary ; floral 
bracts much shorter than the ovary. Sepals and petals subequal, 
spreading or connivent, narrowed at the base. Lip large, usually 
saccate or spurred at the base; side-lobes large or small, rarely 
absent, adnate to the short foot of the column or to the sides of 
the sac or spur; midlobe fleshy, various ; disk usually ridged or 
amellate, sometimes carunculate. Column short, stout, the foot 
