Cleisostoma.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 297 
3. C. Macphersoni, F. Muell. Herb. Stems short, covered with 
the very prominent baie of the leaves. Leaves 4 to 6 in. long and at 
least 1 in. broad, th ins not prominent except the midrib, which 
forms an acute keel dadar, Spikes rigid, not longer than the 
leaves, the flowers rather numerous, sessile, nd petals 
and narrow. , Capsu e oblong, idis ribi — Saccolabium 
soni, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 96. 
8 Quee xat peace bay, Dallachy. raced has much the aspect of a small- 
lowered 4 Sarcanthus, but the spur is not divided insi 
10. VANDA, R. Br. 
d. smooth or in species not Australian with callosities ufo the 
pouch. Column short, thick, erect, with an obtuse or retuse rostellum. 
in pairs or 
2 deeply 2-lobed, attached to a linear or cuneate caudicle on a large 
—Epiphytical nets with distichous often thick and coriaceous 
or fleshy leaves. Race s lateral. Flowers usually large and show 
The genu extends over E. quis and the Archipelago as far as S. China; the pij 
Australian dic p is hiie the « same as an Archipelago one. 
l. V. Hindsii, Lindl. in Hook. Lond ii. 997, and in Pact. _ 
Mag. ii. 91. Stems of andes length, with sarl canaliculate leaves 
of 1 ft. or more. Racemes 6 in. to above 1ft. in length, with 3 to 10 
large flowers, the spreading pedicels often 2 to 3i in. long ‘includin ng the 
Ovary. Sepals and petals nearly 1 in. long, broadly obovate with sinuate 
margins, contracted into a broad claw, of a pale yellow 
side, white inside with purple mas slightl shaded with yellow at the 
ase and with pink tovs the m A i: ab 
les 
the l latéral lobak short and broad, the middle lobe much longer, obovate- 
oblong, emarginate or shortly 2-lobed, without callosities on the disk. 
Column white.— V. uw Lindl.in Bot. Reg. 1847, under t. 59, and 
in Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 90, t. 42; Bot. Mag. t. 4432; V. suavis, F: Muell. 
F edm vii. 135, but aaile of Lindl. 
Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller ; and also in New Guinea and Jav 
if the determination and synonymy are std f the 
single flower and leaf in Herb. F. Muell, in which the size and shape of the 
sepals, petals, and labefhuos as cos with those of indsit an o 
in Herb. Lindi. as far as can. be judged from dried specimens, Lindley distinguishes 
