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‘the genus Lutsia, to which 
A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). š 
and petals many-nerved, Lip about as long as the sepals; claw dilating into a 
cup-shaped spur, in front of which are the erect, wing-like lobes or arms of the 
hypochil, which is produced beyond them into a broad projecting spur with a subulate 
point; between the lobes of the hypochil is a shorter erect transverse membranous 
plate, truncate, notched in the middle and toothed, and in front of that again isa much 
smaller one which I have assumed to be a very rudimentary epichil, but this is 
little better than a guess, 
Deseribed from the drawing, and a very few detached flowers in a very bad state contained in 
an attached pocket. The analysis of the lip of the latter was most difficult, and, though conducted 
with extreme care, I cannot vouch for its perfect accuracy. The fact is that the parts of the lip, 
as usually disposed in orchids, are so deformed and mixed up, as it were, in this and the six 
preceding Sarcochili that it is very difficult from dried specimens or the analyses of native artists to 
pronounce on their nature and relations. 
Fig. 1 flower with a sepal and a petal removed; 2, dorsal sepal; 3, petal; 4, front, and 6, back view of lip; 
6, front, and 7, side view of column and anther; 8, anther; 9, pollinium:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 68, 
VANDA (Cristate) Pumita, Hook. f. 
V. pumila, caulibus brevibus, foliis loriformibus recurvis concavis apice 2-lobis 
lobo altero premorso altero rotundato, pedunculo brevi paucifloro, floribus primulinis 
v. albis, sepalis lateralibus ovatis v. lineari-oblongis acutis incurvis, dorsali angustiore 
petalis linearibus acutis, labelli purpurei v. rubro picti, lobis lateralibus oblongis v. 
rotundatis, terminali late ovato obtuso, calcare conico lobo terminali szquilongo. Hook, 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vi. 58. V. cristata, var. Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Vanda p. 10. 
Назв.--біккім AND Внотан HIMALAYA, alt. 2,000 ft. 
Stems 1—2 in., tufted, stout. Leaves 3—5 in., pale, bright green. Peduncle from near 
the base of the stem, 1—2 in., rather flexuous, with one or two ovate acute bracts; 
floral bracts similar, } in. long; pedicel with ovary 1—14 in. Sepals 2 in. long; 
petals rather shorter. Lip i shorter than the sepals, rather fleshy. Column very 
short; pollinia small, globose, strap short, gland large. 
A very distinct species belonging to the small group with V. cristata. Lindl. and V. alpina, Lindl, 
It is smaller than either, with the lip of the latter, but furnished with a long conical spur which at 
ce distinguishes it. Аз with those species, the flowers resemble in their incurved sepals and petals 
۳ indeed Lindley referred ۳. alpina, but their habit is totally different. The 
flowers is not well given in Plate 68, but is admirably well rendered in a drawing 
ما‎ plant in the Cathcart collection of Sikkim orchids at Kew, in which the flowers are 
represented as white and the lip as marked with purple, not the bright red here depicted. 
The Calcutta drawing is ‘inscribed “Vanda cristata, Lindl, var. В, grown at Mungpo, 
: 1888. Brought from Bhotan, 1887; said to grow at 2,000 ft.” 
the lateral sepals removed; 2, flower with the sepals and petals displaced and lip removed ; 
5 and 6, anther; 7 and 8, pollinia:—all except figs. 3 and 4 enlarged. 
Darjeeling, 
Fig. 1, flower with ; 
3, side and 4, front view of lip; 
