A-CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (7. D. HOOKER). 9T 
latere compresso linguiforme apice truncato v. retuso, disco 3-carinnto, Hook. f. Fi. Brit. 
Jnd. vi. 27. Vanda undulata, Lindl. in Journ, Linn, Soc. iii, 42; Reichb, f. in. Gard. 
Chron, 1875, ii, 212 et 1878, i. 108, 
EASTERN SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Sikkim and Bhotan, ascending to 7,000 ft. The 
Кнава His, alt, 5— 60,000 ft, 
Stem 6—10 in. long, flexuous, as thick as a goose-quill, pale greenish, studded with 
small warts, as on the peduncle and rachis of the raceme and bracts, Leaves 3 —4 by 1—3 
in., recurved, dark green, terminal lobes unequal, sides convex, Peduncle 6—8 in., striate, 
rigid, bright green, as thick as a crow-quill; sheaths ovate, obtuse; raceme 4--8-84,; 
bracts 5—5 in., green; pedicels with ovary 1-12 in., ascending, nearly white. Flowers 1} 
in, diam.; sepals and petals spreading and more or less recurved, lateral sepals with their 
tips often crossing under the lip, which is only half their length and nearly straight. 
Column very short; anther depressed, 2-lobed, red; pollinia nearly globose or ellipsoid, 
strap moderate inflexed; gland large, transverse, 
I have followed Bentham in placing this in Stawropsis, though it bears little resemblance to its 
gigantic, golden flowered congener, S. giganteus. From Vanda it differs in the base of the lip being 
adnate to the sides of the column, but it resembles in habit V. cærulesoens. From Phalacnopsis it 
differs in the lip being adnate to the sides of the column, and in wanting a forked appendage on 
the disk of the lip. Lastly, should the lip prove to be jointed at the base and mobile, which I cannot 
determine on the dried specimens, it may better be placed in Arachnanthe. Тһе warted stems, 
scapes, &c., are characteristic of this species alone amongst the allied Vandee known to me. 
It will be observed that there is great discrepancy in the accompanying plate between the form 
of the lip as represented of the natural size and the enlarged figures 1 and 2; the latter are more 
like what I find in the dried specimens. The colouring of the flowers, too, may admit of correction. 
The drawing is inscribed “Renanthera; Vanda Jerdoni, Darjeeling, 3rd June 1862, on trees 7,000 
ft, T. Anders.” ` 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, column and lip; 3, pollinia:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 56. 
و‎ L: PuALZNoPSIS Massu, Reichb, f. 
P. Manni; subcaulis, folis sessilibus obovato-oblongis v. oblanceolatis subacutis 
striatis, peduneulo subradicali valido, bracteis majusculis ovatis acutis viridibus sepalisque 
oblanceolatis acuminatis flavidis rufo-brunneo pallide maculatis, labello breviter ungui- 
eulato, hypochilii lobis lateralibus oblongis falcatis truncatis appendicula furcata interposita, 
epichilio panduriformi lobis terminalibus elongatis recurvis carunculatis serrulatis. Reichb, 
f. in Gard, Chron, 1871, 902 et 1876, 503; Rolfe ما‎ с. 1886, ii. 270; Hook. f. Fl. Brit 
Ind, vi. 30. d id. 
Assam, Mann, Біккім HIMALAYA, Rungbee Valley (Је. in Hort, Саг.). 
few, rather flaccid, 6—10 by 2—2} in., pale green. ۴ 776 3—12 in., simple 
ата вА stout, نو‎ green decurved or pendulous; bracts }—} in.; flowers few 
or many, 12 in, diam.; sepals broader than the petals, Zip white with red markings 
ic baie d the epichil and on the processes of the hypochil; disk with a flattened 
appendage in front of the forked опе. Column long, with a short foot,‏ ایم سم 
valli anther subhemispherie; pollinia pyriform; strap large, spathulate; gland smull, 
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