102 VANDA. 



very remarkable deviation from the type as regards colour. It 

 flowered for the first time in this country in the collection of Sir 

 W. H. Marriott, Bart., at the Down House, Blandford, to whom 

 it is appropriately dedicated. 



V. parviflora. 



" Leaves lorate, unequally notched at the apex, and having a mucro at 



the sinus beneath. Racemes longer than the leaves, many flowered ; 



sepals and petals testaceous, spreading, sub-uniform, obovate-spathulate ; 



lip three-lobed, the side lobes small, incurved, the middle lobe large, 



broadly oblong, dilated and crenate at the apex, white above with 



elevated lamellae on the thick fleshy disk that is stained and spotted 



with purple ; spur moderately long, obtuse, incurved." — Botanical Magazine, 



Vanda parviflora, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1844, inisc. No. 57. Wight, Icon. t. 1669. 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 50. V. testacea, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. VIII. (1877), 

 p. 166. Aerides Wightiamini, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 238 (1832). Id. in Jomn. 

 Linn. Soc. III. p. 40. Bot. Mag. t. 5138. A. testaceum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 

 p. 238. 



This is the commonest and most widely dispersed of all the 



Indian Vandas, and in this respect it presents a remarkable exception 



to the restricted habitats of most of the other species. It occurs in 



the tropical Himalaya from Kumaon eastwards into Assam ; in 



Burmah generally and other parts of the eastern peninsula ; on the 



western Ghauts from Bombay southwards to Travancore; also in 



Ceylon. It appears to have been first introduced into British 



gardens in 1844 by Messrs. Loddiges ; and it has been since 



frequently imported with other Indian orchids ; it is best known in 



cultivation under the name of Aerides Wightianum. 



V. Roxburghii. 



Stems 12 — 20 inches high under cultivation. Leaves linear, curved, 

 very leathery, 5 — 7 inches long, and | — f inch broad, tridentate at the 

 apex. Kacemes ascending, longer than the leaves, 5 — 9 or more 

 flowered. Flowers 2 inches in diameter, on white, grooved, slightly 

 twisted pedicels ; sepals and petals oval-oblong, undulated, pale green 

 tesselated with brown on the inner side, white behind ; lip three-lobed, 

 produced behind into a conic, obtuse spur, the side lobes small, 

 lanceolate, acute, white ; the intermediate lobe first roundish then 

 quadrate with a notch in the anterior margin, convex above, violet- 

 purple, paler towards the base. Column white. 



Vanda Roxburghii, E. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 506 (1820). Bot. Mag. t. 2245 (1S21). 

 Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 215 (1832). Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, II. t. 11. 

 Wight's Icon. III. t. 916. Williams' Orch. Alb. II. t. 59. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. p. 52. V. tessellata, Paxt. 3Iaq. Bot. VII. p. 265 (1840). V. tesselloides, 

 Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 864 (1864). Cymbidium tesselloides, Roxb. Fl. ind. 

 III. p. 463 (1832). 



