210 ORCHIDACEM. [ VANDA. 



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 1 J-2 in. across ; sepals and petals gree- 

 nish-yellow mottled with brown ; mid lobe 

 of lip with purple caruncles . . . 2. V. Roxburghii. 



Sepals and petals incurved . . . .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 ; 

 DutUe id. ix, part 2, 144 ; Prain Beng. PL 1021 ; Cooke FL 

 Bomb, ii, 703. 



Stem stout, 3-6 in. long, enveloped in the sheathing bases of fallen 

 leaves. Leaves 3-8 in. long by f-J 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 f in. across . 

 Sepals and petals spreading. Sepals spathulate, obtuse ; the lateral 

 pair shorter than the dorsal one. Petals as long as the lateral sepals , 

 falcately spathulate -oblong, falcate. Lip in. long, actuate to the 

 short foot of the column, spuried ; side-lobes erect, oblong, rounded r 

 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 1-1 J in. long, fusiform, with winged ridges. 



Dehra Dun (Mackinnon). Flowers May and July. DISTRIB.: Outer 

 ranges of Himalaya, up to 4,000 ft., from Carhwal eastwards to Nepal 

 and Sikkim ; extending to Assam and Burma ; also in Chota 

 Nagpur, the Konkan and S. India to Ceylon. 



2, V. Roxburghll, R. 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. 

 110 ; Prain Beng. PL 1021 ; CooJce FL Bomb, ii, 704. Cymbidium 



