VANDA, 915 
t. 1809; Bot. Mag., t. 4114; Paxt. Mag. Bot. V, t. 193; Griff. Notul. III, 353; 
Warn. Sel Orch. Ser. III, t. 2; Reichenbachia, I, t. 27; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 49. 
Dendrobium teres, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III, 485. 
Sikkim, common in the Terai and occasionally found in very hot valleys; in flower 
during March and April; Pantling No. 45. Assam, Sylhet, Khasia Hills, Chittagong 
and Upper Burma, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 
The sepals and petals are rose-coloured, as are the side lobes and apex of the lip. 
The spur is yellow or ferruginous, boldly lined with purplish-brown externally and 
speckled with red in the throat. A variety with the rose colour supplanted by white is 
occasionally met with. In this species as found in Sikkim the flowers measure only two 
and a half inches in expanse, the form with flowers four inches wide not yet having been 
observed in the Province. At the base of the Khasia Hills, and in many parts of Assam, 
the large and small-flowered forms grow together. ‘They are structurally the same. The 
nearest ally of this is the Malayan V. .Hookeriana, Benth. On the removal of the 
pollen apparatus from the anther, the pollinia fall forward because of the folding of 
the caudicle, and they ultimately rest on the gland. 
Prate 285.— Vanda teres, Lindl. Upper part of a plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 ovary, column and 
lip, side view, 2 column with anther in situ and foot, З apex of column with pollinia in situ, 4 pollinia 
after removal and after the bending of the caudicle, 5 empty anther, /ғот below; all enlarged. 
2. VANDA PARVIFLORA, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. XXX (1844) Misc. 45. 
Stem stout, 4 to 12 in. long, clothed with the remains of sheaths of fallen leaves. 
Leaves linear-oblong, conduplicate, keeled, unequally and obtusely. 2-lobed at the apex, 
the base not narrowed; length 3 or 4 in., breadth when flattened out +4 to ‘5 in. 
Inflorescence from below and about as long as the leaves; the peduncle as long as 
the raceme, bearing a few small scattered sheaths; raceme few-flowered. Flowers “6 іп. 
in diam. Sepals spathulate, obtuse, the lateral pair shorter than the dorsal. Petals 
spathulate-oblong, faleate, as long as the lateral sepals. Column thick, short, with a 
very short foot. Lip adnate to the foot of the column, spurred; the spur narrowly 
infundibuliform, half as long as the ovary, its mouth with erect oblong, rounded or 
sub-acute, side lobes; the apical lobe fleshy, decurved, oblong; the apex broad, erose, 
minutely emarginate or 2-lobulate; the upper surface caruncled and with a deep groove 
down the centre. Anther depressed, very slightly beaked in front; pollinia sub-globose, 
bifid. Capsule ‘8 in. long, fusiform, with winged ridges. Wight Ic. 1669; Reichb. fil. in 
Gard. Chron. 1877, II, 166; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 50. rides Wightianum, Lindl. 
in Wall Cat. 7320; Gen. and Spec. Orch., 238; in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 40; Bot. 
Mag., t. 5138; Wight Ic. V, p. 8; Dalz. and Gibs. Fl. Bomb., 265. 
Sikkim, at the base of the range and in the bottoms of hot valleys; in flower from 
April to June; Pantling, No. 270. Westward to Kumaon and Nepal; eastward and 
southward to Assam and Burma; also on the Western Ghdts of Southern India and 
in Ceylon. | us | 
The sepals and petals are pale buff, and the apical lobe of the lip is bluish- 
purple, There is, however, some variation as to colour, one form having sepals and 
petals brown, and another sepals and petals white; but neither of these has hitherto 
been found in Sikkim, 
