146 VANDEJE. 
PrATE 116. Vanda Roxburghii R. Br. Portion of plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, а 
flower; 2, ditto with sepals and petals removed; 3, vertical section of column and 
lip; 4, front view of column; 5, anther; 6, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
3. VANDA CRISTATA Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7328. 
Stem 78 to 1:5 сш. stout, covered with the remains of old sheaths. Leaves 
bifarious, crowded, 7:5 to 10 em. long, narrowly oblong, conduplicate, truncately and 
unequally bilobed at the apex, dilated at the sheathing base. Aacemes not exceeding 
the leaves, axillary, 2—5-flowered. Flowers 3۰5 to 5 cm. across. Sepals and petals 
ineurved, pale olive-green or yellowish. Sepals subequal, oblong, obtuse, Petals 
narrower than the sepals, oblong. Zip adnate to the base of the column, longer 
than the sepals, green blotched with dull purplish-brown, basal lobes егесі, trian- 
gular, terminal lobe oblong, with two divaricate oblong lobules and а horn-like fleshy 
beak pointing downwards from under the apex, upper surface with five carunculate 
ridges. Column short, without a foot. Anther depressed, with a prominent central ridge, 
pollinia ovoid, attached by a short broad caudicle to a quadrate gland. Capsule narrowly 
clavate, 5 to 6:5 cm. long. Lindl. беп, & Sp. Orch. 216; бегі. Orch. frontisp. fig. 3; 
in Bot. Reg. (1842), t. 48; Fol. Orch. 10; Bot. Mag. 4304; Walp. Ann. vi, 869; 
Warners Orch, Alb. vii, t. 290; Gartenfl. t. 680; Hook. f. Fl. Br, Ind. vi, 53; King 
& Pantling in Ann. В. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 210, t. 287. rides cristatum Wall. 
MSS. Æ. sp. Griff. It. Notes, 203, No. 1188. 
Dehra Dun and Mussoorie range up to 4,000 feet, Mackinnon (Duthie’s No. 21785); 
Garhwál, Duíhies collector No. 25827; Kumaon 3 to 4,000 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom 
No. 21, Colonel Davidson. Flowers in May. 1+ extends eastwards to Sikkim, Bhutan 
and Sylhet. 
4, ‘VANDA ALPINA Lindl. Fol, Orch. 10. 
Stem and leaves as in V. cristata. Racemes much shorter than the leaves. Flowers 
solitary or in pairs, nodding, about 2 cm, long. Sepals and petals subequal, connivent, 
oblong, blunt, the colouring as in V. cristata. Lip adnate to the column, gibbous but 
not saccate or spurred at the base; side lobes shallow, rounded; terminal lobe retuse, 
its upper surface with shallow ridges. Column short, stout, with no foot. Anther flattened ; 
pollinia ovoid, caudicle subquadrate, gland transversely oblong. Capsule 7'5 cm. long, 
narrowly clavate. Hook. f, Fl. Br. Ind, vi, 53; King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. 
Gard. Cale. viii, 217, t. 289. V. Grifithii Lindl, in Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii, 22; Fol. Orch. 
10 (excl. eit. Griff.). Lista alpina Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1888 Misc. 59. j 
Garhwál, T. Thomson; Kumaon 3,500 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 22. 
Flowers during June and July. It extends eastwards to Nepai, Sikkim and the Khasia 
Hills, 
25. Saccolabium Blume. 
Epiphytes without pseudo-bulbs. Leaves coriaceous, flat or conduplicate, often 
keeled. Flowers usually small, in  leaf-opposed ог supra-axillary racemes corymbs 
umbels or panicles, floral bract minute. Sepals and petals adnate to the column, sub- 
equal, spreading or reflexed. Гір sessile on the footless column, consisting of a 
cylindric or saccate spur, without calli and non-septate, with or without small lateral 
