Vanilla.'] CXLVIII. OROHIDEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 91 



5. V. albida, Blume Bijdr. 422, t. 34; Humph, i. 197, t. 67 ; leaves 

 ovate lanceolate elliptic or oblong cuspidate or acuminate, lip oblong sub- 

 panduriform margins undulate and serrate, disk of hypochile with a large 

 globose woolly ball, epichile retuse or 2-lobed strongly echinately 

 caruncled. Lindl. Gen. Sc Sp. Orchid. 435. V. Griffithii, Reichb. f. in 

 Bonpland. ii. (1854), 88. Vanilla, sp. Griff. Notul. iii. 207; Ic. Plant. 

 Asiat. t. 281. Vanilla, Wall. Cat. 7401. 



PENANG, Wallich, Curtis. FERAE, SINGAPORE, and MALACCA, Griffith, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Java. 



Climbing to 50 ft. Leaves very variable, 3-7 by l|-4 in., sessile or shortly 

 petioled. Spikes 2-3 in., very many- and dense-fld. ; bracts in., oblong ; flowers 

 waxy white ; sepals f in. long, concave, obovate, obtuse, very thick ; petals as long, 

 but thinner and many-nerved, with a thick dorsal grooved keel that abruptly ends 

 below the apex; column rather long ; anther appressed.to the woolly ball of the lip. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



V. APHTLLA, Blume ?, ex Wight Ic. t. 931 ; leafless, stem angular, peduncle 

 elongate as thick as a swan's quill, racemes 3-4 in. very stout many-fid., bracts ovate 

 acute, pedicel with ovary 2 in., sepals as long oblanceolate-oblong acute, petals 

 very much broader obovate acute margins crenulate, hypochile of lip with rounded 

 angles and two rows of bristles on the disk, epichile ovate acuminate crisped naked. 

 Travancore, near Trevandrum, Wight. From Wight's remarks under it I suspect 

 this to be a most rude representation of Lindley's V. Wightiana ; if so, the 

 flowers are greatly exaggerated, and the hairs of the epichile are transferred to the 

 hypochile. 



77. CORYIVXBIS, Thouars. 



Tall, terrestrial, rigid, leafy herbs, roots fibrous. Leaves broad, plaited. 

 Flowers in short axillary stiff sessile spreading panicles. Sepals audpetals 

 very narrow, linear, at first cohering in a tube with spreading tips, per- 

 sistent. Lip erect from the base of the column, linear, channelled, tip 

 dilated and recurved. Column usually as long as the petals, erect, terete, 

 tip clavate and 2-lobed or -auricled ; rostellum at length 2-fid. ; stigma 

 erect, transverse, saccate; anther narrow, erect, acuminate, 2-celled; pollinia 

 clavate, attached by a subulate caudicle to a peltate gland. Capsule linear 

 or fusiform. Species 6-7, tropical. 



l.C. veratrifolia, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. 125, t. 42 E, 43 f. 1 



(Corymborchis); leaves elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, flowers 1-1| 

 in. long, sepals and petals subsimilar narrowly oblanceolate, blade of lip 

 lanceolate acuminate, ribs of capsule smooth. C. disticha, Lindl. Fol. 

 Orchid. 1 (in part). Macrostylis disticha, Breda Gen. <$f Sp. Orchid. 

 Javan. t. 2. Hysteria veratrifolia, Reinw. in Sot. Zeit. 1825, ii. 5 ; 

 Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 439. Ehyncanthera paniculata, Blume Bijdr. 

 t. 78. Corymborchis assamica, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. 126, t. 43, 

 f.-2 A. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; in tropical ravines, J. D. H. ASSAM, Griffith, Jenkins. 

 CHITTAGONG, /. D. H. Sf T. T. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, King's Collector. MALAY 

 PENINSULA, Maingay, &c. MALABAR ; the Nilghiri Hills and Courtallam, Wight. 

 CEYLON ; Matturatte, Moon. DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Stem 4 ft. high, as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves 12-18 in., sessile on the 

 sheaths, nerves very manyr and strong. Panicles 4-6 in. long ard broad ; bracts 

 - | in., ovate-lanceolate; flowers greenish white; column long. Capsule, in Ic. 

 Blumo, 2 in. long. I am not sure that the plants from the above localities are all of 

 one species. The Sikkim and Assam ones are in a young state only ; the Perak and 



