54 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Vanda. 



or white, side lobes of lip rounded, midlobe broadly ovate concave obtuse 

 pale streaked with purple, spur conical as long as the midlobe. V. cristata, 

 var. Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 10. 



SIKKIM and BHOTAN HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft. (Ic. Cathcart <Sf in Herb.. Calcutt.). 



A smaller species thaii either cristata or alpina, with the lip of the latter, but 

 furnished with a long conical spur. In the Cathcart drawings the leaves are 

 5-6 in. and sepals and petals white; in that of the Calcutta Herb, the leaves are only 

 3 in. long, and the sepals and petals are yellow. The latter is ticketed as from 

 Mongpo, in Sikkim. 



SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 



V. BRUNNEA, Eeichb. f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 139 ; leaves long narrowly ligulate 

 emarginate, flowers as large as in V. concolor (of China) olive within, sepals and petals 

 cuneately oblong obtusely acute, lip and column pale yellowish white, side lobes serai- 

 rotund, midlobe ligulate 2-lobed retuse, spur acutely conical. Moulmein, Parish. 

 There is a drawing at Kew, by Parish, of what may be this species named V. tristis, 

 Par. mss., the perianth is brown on both surfaces, the lip and column pale brown. 

 (See F. Parishii, p. 51.) 



V. STANGEANA, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. xvi. (1858) 351 ; allied to V. fusco- 

 viridis, Lindl. (of Java), auricles of the lip semiovate divergent, blade gradually 

 narrowed from a broad semicordate base, lip slightly 2-lobed, a pair of small calli 

 before the mouth of the spur, dorsal sepal cuueate-ovate about equalling the petals, 

 lateral sepals larger. Sepals and petals gold"n green tesselated with beautiful ches- 

 nut brown ; lip and column white ; lip pale violet in front, with a streak of red dots 

 on each side of the spur, and a furrow under the column between the auricles. 

 Assam (Sort. Schiller). 



V. VIPANI, Reichb.f. in Oard. Chron. 1882, ii. 134, 29 ; leaves very narrowly linear 

 decuvved deeply unequally 2-toothed, raceme few-fld., sepals and rather smaller petals 

 cuueate-oblong obtuse undulate gradually narrowed to the base pale olive-green 

 or ochreous barred with short brown-purple lines, lip panduriform, side lobes semi- 

 ovate golden yellow, midlobe olive-green 2-callous at the base, spur conical glabrous 

 within. Burma, Vipan. 



V. WIGHTII, Eeichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 932 ; allied to 7. Stangeana, Reichb. f., 

 leaves more than a foot long narrowly ligulate unequally acutely 2-lobed, scape 

 few andlax-fld., side lobes of lip subquadrate, midlobe broadly ovate, lip contracted 

 ligulate obtusely 2-lobed, disk with 2 thick ridges, pilose at the base of the ridges 

 and side lobes, spur conical, column slender for the genus. Nilghiris, Wight. 



61. SACCOLABIUM, Blum. 

 62. SCH^ENORCHIS, Bl. 63 UNCIFEEA, Lindl. 64 ACAMPE, Lindl. 



Epiphytes ; pseudobulbs 0. Leaves flat keeled or terete. Peduncles lateral ; 

 flowers usually small spicate racemed panicled or subcorymbose. Sepals 

 and petals adnate to the base of the column, spreading, subsimilar, free. 

 Lip sessile at the base of the column usually consisting of. a large saccate 

 or conic cylindric spur, small lateral lobes and a small midlobe ; sac or 

 spur not septate within and without a large scale or callus within under 

 the column (except 8. longi folium}. Column short, broad, truncate, rarely 

 beaked, foot 0; anther 1- or imperfectly 2-celled; pollinia 2, entire or 

 2-partite. Species about 40, Eastern Asiatic. 



Of the genera enmnerated above, Schcenorchis is not British Indian, a i'act which 

 I overlooked when drawing out the key to the genera, though it is noted in Gen. 

 Plant. Uncifera I refer to Saccolabium ; its character of the incurved spur is insuf- 

 ficient; end that of the pollinia stipitate on the strap, or rather on the geniculate 

 apex of the strap, though curious, is, considering how variable this organ is in the 

 genus and its allies, not a dependable one for generic purposes. For Acampe 1 can find 

 no characters whatever, and it is difficult to retain it as a section ; its lip is that of sect. 

 Calceolaria, as is the subcorjmbose or umbellate inflorescence of most of the species. 



