142 VANDEZ. 
deciduous bracts; the rachis flexuous, Flowers 13 mm. іп diam., white or rose-coloured. 
Sepals spreading, oblong, obtuse. Petals broader, spreading. Zip gibbous or slightly 
saccate at the base, with a long claw; side lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, disk 
between the side lobes pubescent; midlobe truncate, emarginate. Column very short; 
rostellum indistinct. Anther broadly ovate, furnished with 2 or З slender sete; pollinia 
two, 2-lobed, caudicle very short, gland large. Capsule 85 cm., slender, slightly curved, 
glabrous. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 37. Chiloschista usneoides Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 
7330; Gen, & Sp. Orch. 219; Bot. Reg. under t.. 1522; Sert. Orch. frontisp. f. 4; 
in Journ, Linn. Soc. iii, 43; Gard. Chron. (1846), 135. Thrixspermum usneoides Reichb. 
f. Xenia ii, 190. Epidendrum usneoides Don. Prod. 37. 
On oak trees near the village of Chamassoorie in Garhwal at an elevation of 
about 5,000 feet, found by Colonel Vicary in 1833. Previously discovered in Nepal 
by Dr. Wallich. 
22. Ærides Lour. 
Epiphytie, with leafy stems. Leaves linear or terete, coriaceous. Flowers usually 
numerous and brightly coloured, in decurved racemes, sometimes solitary ; floral bract 
minute. Sepals and petals broad, spreading, the lateral sepals adnate to the base or foot 
of the column. Јар adnate to the column, spurred; the side lobes large or small, 
sometimes absent; the mid-lobe larger than the side lobes, or smaller and incurved. 
Column short, its foot short or long; roséellum short or long, bifid. Anther 2-celled, with 
or without a beak; pollinia 2, globose, sulcate; caudicle long or short, gland various.— 
Species about 50, Eastern Asiatic. 
Terminal lobe of lip large, hastate, acute. ete nus x. d Ж-тыңи/оғыв, 
Terminal lobe of lip small, narrowly oblong. . ©.  . «  . 2. ДЖ, odoratum. 
1. {RIDES MULTIFLORUM Roxb. Согот. Pl. iii, 63, t. 271. 
Stem 1 to 25 dm. long, stout. Leaves 1:5 to 2:5 dm. long and 2 to З em. broad, 
narrowly oblong, conduplicate, recurved, slightly tapering to the oblique bifid apex, not 
narrowed to the base, often tinged with red. Razemes longer than the leaves, simple, 
axillary, densely many-flowered; peduncle long, clothed with short distant sheaths. 
Flowers 2 cm. across, rose-coloured. Sepals and petals subequal, oblong, blunt. Lip 
twice as long as the sepals, triangular, entire, adnate to the base of the column, acute or 
obtuse at the apex, margins erose, its basal portion thick and with a retrorse tooth or 
callus across the mouth of the rectangularly bent spur. Column without a foot, its 
margins thickened and slightly winged near the Базе. Anther depressed and with a long 
curved beak in front; pollinia globular, caudicle Нотт, gland narrow. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
іш, 475; Belg. Hortic. (1876), 286; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 897; Hook. f. Fl. 
Br. Ind. vi, 44; King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. үші, 212, t. 283. 
Ж. afine Wall. Cat. 7316; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 239; Sert. Orch. t. 15; in Jourr. 
Linn. Soc. 11, 41; Bot. Mag. t. 4049; Warner Sel. Orch. Ser. i, t. 91. 27. roseum 
Lodd. ex Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii, 109, t. 60; Regel Gartenfl. Vili, 253, t. 207 Ж. 
Lobbi Hort. ex Ш. Hort. (1868) t. 559. Æ. Veitchii Hort. ex Morven in Belg. 
Hortic. (1876), 291. Æ. trigonum Klotzeh in Otto. & Diet. Allgem. Gartenz (1835), 
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