Pe ORCHIDACEE. — ~—sSO(-Vawpa. 
short or none. Anther 2-celled; rostellum small; pollinia 2, 
didymous, subglobose or obovoid; caudicle short and broad or 
long and geniculate ; gland usually large. Species about 20, in 
Tropical Asia and Australia. | 
Sepals and petals spreading :— 
Flowers small, less than 1 in. across, yellow : 
except the bluish caruncles on the lip . 1. V. parviflora. 
Flowers 13-2 in. across ; sepals and petals gree- 
nish-yellow mottled with brown ; mid lobe 
of lip with purple caruncles : E - 2: V. Roxburghit. 
Sepals and petalsincurved . 3 . . 3. V. cristata. 
1. V. parviflora, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxx (1844) Misc. 45 > 
F. B. I. vi, 50; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 215, t. 286 ; 
Duthie id. ix, part 2, 144; Prain Beng. Pl. 1021; Cooke Fi. 
Bomb. ii, 703. 
Stem stout, 3-6 in. long, enveloped in the sheathing bases of fallen 
leaves. Leaves 3-8 in. long by 3-4} in. wide (when flattened out), 
linear-oblong, conduplicate, keeled, unequally and obtusely 2-lobed 
at the apex. Inflorescence from below the leaves and about as long ; 
peduncle as long as the raceme, bearing a few small scattered sheaths. 
Raceme few-flowered ; floral bracts ovate, acute, deciduous. Flowers 
yellow except the blue fleshy ridges on the lip, less than 2 in. across. 
Sepals and petals spreading. Sepals spathulate, obtuse ; the lateral 
pair shorter than the dorsal one. Petals as long as the lateral sepals, 
faleately spathulate-oblong, falcate. Lip 3 in. long, adnate to the 
_ short foot of the column, spurned ; side-lobes erect, oblong, rounded, 
rising from the mouth of the spur; midlobe fleshy, obovoid ; tip 
dilated, crenulated ; disk with two broad bluish ridges. Column 
short, with a short thick foot. Anther depressed, slightly beaked 
in front. Pollinia subglobose, attached to a short broad caudicle. 
Capsule 1-13 in. long, fusiform, with winged ridges. 
Dehra Dun (Mackinnon). Flowers May and July. Distris.: Outer 
ranges of Himalaya, up to 4,000 it., from Carhwal eastwards to Nepal 
and Sikkim; extending to Assam and Burma; also in Chota 
Nagpur, the Konkan and 8. India to Ceylon. 
2. V. Roxburghii, Rf. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 506; F.B.I. vi, 52; 
Watt. E. D.; Duthie Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, part 2, 145, t. 
116 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1021 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 704. Cymbidium 
