VANDA. 145 
conduplicate, keeled, unequally and obtusely 2-lobed at the apex, not narrowed at the 
base. Inflorescence from below the leaves and about as long; peduncle as long as the 
raceme, bearing a few small scattered sheaths; roceme few-flowered ; floral bract ovate, 
acute, deciduous. Flowers 195 ст. in diam. Sepals and petals yellow. Sepals spathulate, 
obtuse, spreading, the lateral pair shorter than the dorsal. Petals spathulate-oblong, 
faleate, as long as the lateral sepals, spreading. Zip adnate to the foot of the 
column, spurred; side lobes erect, oblong, rounded or subacute; terminal lobe deeurved 
fleshy, oblong or cuneate-obovate, with a dilated truncate or retuse erose apex; the 
upper surface blue, caruncled and with а deep groove down the centre; spur slender, 
conical, half as long as the lip. Column short and thick, with a very short foot. 
Anther depressed, slightly beaked in front; ро та subglobose, bifid, attached to a short 
caudicle. Capsule about 8 сш. long, fusiform, with winged ridges. Wight Ic. 1669; 
Reichb. f. in Gard, Chron. 1877, ii, 166; Hook, f. Fl. Br. Ind; vi, 50; King & 
Pantling in Ann. В. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 215, t. 286. rides Wightianum Lindl. in 
Wall. Cat. 7320; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 938; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 40; Bot. Mag. 
138; Wight Ic. v, p. 8; Dalz. & Gibs, Bomb. КІ, 265. 
Debra Dun, Mackinnon ; and along the bases of the outer ranges of Garhwál and 
Kumaon, Edgeworth, Duthie’s collector Nos. 25824 to 25826. Flowers in May. This 
species extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Assam and Burma; also southwards through 
Central, W. and 8. India to Ceylon. 
2. VANDA Кохвовони R. Br, in Bot. Reg. t, 506, 
Stem climbing, 3:6 dm, long, emitting many thick white fleshy roots. Leaves 
bifarious, approximate, l'ó to 2 dm. long, narrow, complicate, keeled, the apex præ- 
morse.  Zacemes 3-10-flowered, longer than the leaves; peduncle 65 to 2 dm. long. 
Flowers 3'5 to 5 cm. in diam. Sepals and petals subequal, spreading, clawed, obovate, 
undulate, yellowish-green or bluish tessallated with brown, their claws and outer surfaces 
white. Lip about half as long as the sepals; side lobes small, acute; apical lobe 
panduriform, with a purple dilated truncate 2-lobed apex, the margins deflexeds; disk 
convex, with fleshy ridges. Spur conical, hairy inside. Poilinia globose; caudicle broad, 
attached to a subquadrate gland. Capsule clavate, sharply ridged. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 
Orch. 215; Fol. Orch. 3; Wight Ic. t. 916; Fl. des Serres ii, t. 11; Paxt. Fl. Gard. 
t. 42, f. 2; Reichb. Fl. Exot. t. 121; Ill, Hort. t. 185 (var.); Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
vi, 52. V. tesselloides Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 864. Cymbidium tesselloides Roxb, 
Fl. Ind. iii, 469. С. tessellatum Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi, 75; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv 
192; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. c. С. Allagnatea Herb. Ham. Epidendrum ан ВохЪ. Сог. 
Pl. i, 34, t. 42. Aerides tessellatum Wight in Wall. Cat. 259 Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 
940. Vanda Jones in Asiat. Res. iv, 302. 
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Forests in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Oudh, Е. Thompson ; Bahraich district 
near the Nepal frontier, Duthie’s collector No, 28867 (а & b); northern portion of the 
Gonda district, Duthie’s collector Nos. 22792 & 23867. Often found on the branches 
of mango trees and of Bassia latifolia. Flowers during the rains. It is also found in 
Bengal, Behar, the Central Provinces and westwards to Guzerat and the Konkan, 
extending southwards to Travancore, Ceylon and Tenasserim. Іп the Chanda district 
the roots, called rasna or nai, are used medicinally. 
Ann. Roy. Вот. GARD., Carc, Vor. IX. 
