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AERIPKS 



on the upper side. Flowers solitary or in short 2 — 3 flowered racemes, 



white, 2 inches across vertically ; sepals and petals of semi-transparent 



texture, the sepals obovate-oblong, much undulated, the petals spreading, sub- 



rhomboidal, much broader ; side lobes of the lip linear-falcate, acuminate, 



unequally toothed at the apex, and bearing a small toothed lobe near 



the inner base ; middle lobe bent downwards, broadly obcordate with 



crenulate margin, clawed, the claw with three elevated short plates ; 



spur subulate, terete, f inch long. 



Aerides Vandarum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 18C7, p. 997 ; III. (1875), p. 591 ; 

 XXIV. {1885), p. 629, icon. xyl. Williams' Orch. Alb. III. t. 116. Hook. f. 



Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 44. A. cylindricum, Hook. Bot. 

 Lindl. in .lourn. Linn. Soc. III. p. 41 (Sikkim plant), 

 p. 537, icon. xyl. 



[Si 



Mag. t. 4982 (not Lindl). 

 Gard. Chron. HI. (1875), 



Aerides Vandarum. 

 (From the GanUners' Chronicle.) 



The earliest notice we find of this singular* Aerides occurs in the 

 Botanical Magazine of 1857, tab. 4982, where it is figured and 

 described under the name of Aerides cylmdricum, a species with a 

 very different labellum, which had been discovered in southern 

 India in the early part of the present century, and which is not, 



