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GENUS XVI. VANDA. 

 Crynandvia Sfonanclria. Sex: Si/st. 

 Berw. Vanda is the Spuscrit name of tte original species. 



Gen. Chae. Sepals flattened, all equal and narrowed at tie 

 base, usually petaloid : petals of the same form usually twisted at 

 the base : Hp saccate at the base or spurred, continuous with the 

 base of the apodous column, fleshy, usually much shorter than the 

 sepals, somewhat 3-lobed or entire, usually callous before the spur, 

 auricles dwarf or obsolete : column thick, dwairf, free, apodous : 

 cliQandrium vertical : stigma transverse : beak obtuse or retuse : 

 poUen masses waxy, plano-convex, twin, or 2 deeply partite: caudicle 

 lorate or cuneate, longer than the poHinia : gland large, sub-rotund 

 or triangular: anther ovate, 2-ceUed, valvelets half free. — Epip- 

 hytes : leaves coriaceous, distichous, oblique at the apex : flowers 

 usually racemose, conspicuous : peduncles lateral. . 



(1) V. EoxBTmoHH. fB. Br.) 



Ident. E. Brown in Bot. Eeg. t. 506. — ^Lindl. gen. and sp. 

 p. 215. 



Syn. Cymbidium tesseloides, Eoxb. flor. Ind. UI. p. 463. 



grav. Bot. Mag. t. 2245. — Paxt. fl. garden t. 42, fig. 2.— 

 ■Wight's Icon. t. 916. 



Spec. Chab. Stem short thick : leaves obliquely 3-toothed at 

 the apex : racemes erect, longer than the leaves : sepals and petals 

 oblong-oboyate, wavy, tessellated, obtuse : middle lobe of the lip 

 convex, ovate, emarginate, very obtuse, channelled, obtusely callous 

 before the spur, auricles acuminate, nearly equalling the column : 

 flowers largish, tessellated, lip blue. 



Mango trees in Bengal, flowering nearly aU the year. 



(2) V. TEEES. (lAndl.) 



Lindl. in Wall. Cat. No. 7324 ; fol. orch. 1853, p. 7. 



mgrcm. Bot. Eeg. t. 1809.— Bot. Mag. t, 4114. 



Spec. Chae. Scandent: leaves tapering: racemes ascending, 

 somewhat 2-flowered, equaUing the leaves: sepals oblong, obtuse, 

 uppermost one erect, lateral ones half-twisted, placed under the lip, 

 petals larger, sub-orbiculate, wavy : lip very large, hooded, pubes- 

 cent, dilated at the apex, round, emarginate, auricles sub-rotund 

 very large, incurved : spur large, fuimel-shaped : sepals white. 



