144 УАКОЕЖ. 
Lip very variable in shape ; spur compressed, ав me к سا‎ p ^ = 
clavate, 25 to 95 сш. long. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 82; King & Pantling in 
6 iB dbi бом لی‎ эй, 913. t. 284. R. ‚ praemorsa Blume Bijdr. 286. 
R. guttata Reichb. f. in Bonplandia ii, 93. R, garwalica Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 
vi, 888. Saccolabium guttatum Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7308; Gen. & Sp. Orch. d , 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 32; Bot. Mag. t. 4108; Wight Ic. tt. 1745-6; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 263; De Vriese Orch. t. 14; Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. Notul. 22, t. 8 & 9. S. præ- 
morsum Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 291. S. Rheedii Wight Ic. v, 19. 8. retusum Fl. des 
Serres tt, 1463-4. S. Неайй Hort. ex Gard. Chron. (1885), п, 869. 5. Blume Lindl, 
Sert. t. 47; Bot. Reg. (1841), mise. 55. S. gurwalicum Lindl. in Journ. Linn. бос. iii, 
32; in Gard. Chron. (1879), ii, 102. Sarcanthus guttatus Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1443, 
Ærides guttatum Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 471; Regel Gartenfl. (1863), 415. Æ. retusum Swartz 
in Schrad. Dar. (1799), 130; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv, 130; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 264. 
Limodorum relusum Swartz іп Nov. Act, Upsal vi, 80. Epidendrum retusum, Linn, Sp. 
Pl. 953. 
Kangra Valley, Punjab Himalaya, Edgeworéh ; Siwalik range, Royle; Debra Dun, 
King, Mackinnon, &c., and up to 4,000 feet on the Mussoorie range; Gathwal, Falconer, 
Duthie’s collector Nos. 25828, 25830, 25840; Sub-Himalayan tract in the Gonda district of 
N. Oudh, Duthie’s collector No. 22800; Kumaon, 7, Thomson, T. Anderson, &c. Flowers 
in June and July. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, the Khasia 
Hills and Burma, and occurs also in 5, India, Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago. 
24. Vanda R. Brown. 
Epiphytes with leafy stems. Leaves thickly coriaceous or fleshy, flat and keeled or 
terete. Flowers usually large and handsome, in axillary simple racemes, sometimes 
solitary; floral bract much smaller than the ovary. Sepals and petals subequal, spreading 
or connivent, narrowed at the base. Lip large, its base usually saccate or spurred, the 
side lobes large or small, rarely absent, adnate to the short foot of the column or to 
the sides of the sac or spur; apical lobe fleshy, varying in shape, the disk usually 
ridged or lamellate, sometimes carunculate. Column short, stout, foot short or none. 
Anther 2-celled, rostellum small; pollinia 2, didymous, subglobose or obovoid; caudicle 
broad and short, or long and geniculate, gland usually large.—Species about 30, in 
Tropical Asia and Australia. 
Lip spurred at the base ё 
Sepals and petals spreading :— 
Flowers small, disk of lip without со. ДР parviflora. 
Flowers 3'5 to 5 em. in diam., disk of lip with fleshy 
08ل‎ . . š VO WoW ws . . 2. У. Rozburghit, 
Sepals and petals incurved i . . . re. š 2.2: ФР. cristata, 
Lip gibbous, not spurred or saccate at the base У i o АГ. alpina. 
1. VANDA PARVIFLORA Lindl, in Bot. Reg. ххх (1844), Misc, 45, 
Siem stout, 1 to 3 dm. long, enveloped in the sheath-bases of fallen leaves. Laeves 
CO to 10 em. long and 1 to 13 em, broad (when flattened out), linear-oblong, ` 
