SACCOLABIUM. 917 
with two small knobs near the apex and four to six short thickened ridges in the centre. 
Column thick, short, with no foot. Ап ағ depressed, slightly apiculate behind; pollinia 
broadly ovate, their apices divarieate; the caudicle quadrate; the gland large, broad, 
angled. Cupsule clavate, ridged, 9:75 in. long. Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 53. Vanda 
cristata, var. B., Lindl. Fol. Orch, 10. 
Sikkim, in the bottoms of hot valleys; in flower during May; Pantling, No. 73. 
The flowers are cream-coloured, the lip having long red markings, and the sepals 
aud petals being slightly speckled with the same colour. They are very sweet-scented, 
Prate 288.—Vanda pumila, Hook, &1.- A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, stalked ovary, column 
with anther in sifu, and lip, 2 lip, 3 column with anther in situ, front view, 4 under surface of anther, 
5 pollinia with the caudicle extended and the gland, 6 the same after removal, the caudicle having bent 
and brought the pollinia into contact with the gland; ай jenlar ged. 
5. VANDA ALPINA, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 10. 
Stem and leaves as in Р. cristata, Racemes much shorter than the leaves, 2-flowered, 
or flowers solitary, nodding, “75 in. long. Sepals and petals sub-equal, oblong, blunt, 
rather connivent than spreading, the petals somewhat smaller than the sepals. Lip 
adnate to the column, gibbous but not saccate or spurred at the base; side lobes shallow, 
rounded; apical, lobe ovate, oblong,. obscurely trilobnlate. towards the apex; the side 
lobules small, entire; the apical lobule retuse, its upper surface with shallow ridges. 
Column short, stout, with no foot. Ал е” flattened, pollinia ovoid, caudicle sub-quadrate, 
gland broadly and transversely oblong. Capsule narrowly clavate, ridged, 3 in. long. 
Hook, fil. Fl, Br. Ind. VI, 53. V. Grifithii, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. П, 22; Fol, 
Orch. 10 (ezel. cit. Griff.) Ішініа alpina, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Mise. 56. 
Sikkim, at Tendong, elevation 5,000; in flower during July; Pantling, No. 164. 
Westward to Gharwal. Khasia Hills; Hooker and Thomson. 
This has pretty nearly the colouring of V. cristata, Lindl., but the lip is different, 
there being no sac at its base, but only an expansion; the anterior lobe, moreover, has 
neither shallow smooth ridges nor is it carunculate like that of V. cristata, In habit 
and foliage it resembles V. pumila and V. cristata, 
Рілте 289.—Vanda . alpina, Lindl. .A.plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 bract, ovary, 
column with anther in sifu, and. lip, 3 section of the foregoing, 4 column with anther in situ, 5 under 
surface of anther, 6 pollinia and caudicle in situ on the apex of the eolumn, 7 the same some time 
after removal; aH enlarged. 
‚51.. Saccolabium, Blume. - 
Epiphytes without pseudo-bulbs. Leaves coriaceous, flat or conduplicate, often keeled. 
lüflorescence leaf-opposed or supra-axillary, racemose, sub-corymbose, umbellate or panicled ; 
floral bract minute, much shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals and petals adnate to the 
column, sub-equal, usually spreading, sometimes reflexed. Lip sessile on the footless 
column, consisting of a cylindric ог saccate'spur, without calli and non-septate, (with calli 
and horizontal septum іп 8. érichromum), with or without small lateral lobes; the apical | 
lobe small, without a scale or callus under the short broad truncate column, often hairy. | 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Garn., Carcurra, Vor. VIII. 
