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leaves. Both leaves and flower-stalks are marked with 

 crimson spots. 



18. Vanda lamellata Lindl. in Bot. Reg. misc. 1838, no. 125. 

 V. foliis distichis coriaceis oblique et acute bidentatis, 



spica multittora, sepalis petalisque obovatis obtusis 

 undulatis inferioribus subincurvis majoribus, labello 

 basi mammoso, limbo obcuneato retuso auriculato 

 bilamellato pone apicem bituberculato. 

 Found wild in the Philippines ; 



Flowers in long loose racemes, pale yellow, streaked with 

 dull pale red. Not very handsome. 



1 9. Vanda peduncularis Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 2 5 6, no. 6. 

 V. foliis loratis apice alte et oblique bilobis, pedumculo 



longissimo filifornii subramoso apice paucifloro corym- 

 boso, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis duplo minoribus, 

 labello oblongo retuso villoso basi bilamellato. 

 Grows on trees in Ceylon. 



Peduncle very long, slender, branched, purple. Flowers 

 the size of Oplirys apifera, not unlike them. Sepals 

 and petals pale green, streaked with purple. Lip 

 shaggy, purple, bordered with green. 



20. Vanda cristata Lindl. Gen. & Sp. no. 9 • Sertum Orchi- 

 daceum, f. 3. in f route ; Bot. Reg. t. 48. 



V. foliis canaliculars recurvis apice truncatis oblique excisis 

 tridentatis, racemo erecto trifloro foliis brevi ore, sepalis 

 oblongis obtusis fornicatis, petalis angustioribus incurvis, 

 labelli lobis lateralibus brevibus acutis intermedio 

 vittato oblongo convexo apice saccato ineequaliter 

 tricorni, cornu brevi conico. 



Not uncommon in Nepal. 



Flowers large, green, with a large broad lip, regularly 

 striped with rich purple on a buff ground, and divided 

 at the end into 2 narrow acute diverging lobes. 



Sect. B. — Lip contracted at the end, undivided, curved 

 upwards or downwards. 



21. Vanda Griffithii (Vandue Sp. Griffith, Ltinerary Notes, 

 p. 132, no. 846.) 



V. facie foliisque V. cristate, floribus minoribus, labello 

 basi concavo conico laciniis lateralibus nanis erectis 

 intermedia linguif'ormi convexa. emarginata basi minute 

 bicallosa. 



Found in Bootan, in Northern Hindostan, on the Monass 

 River banks, on trees, at an elevation of 2,300 feet. — 

 Griffith. 



In appearance this resembles a small specimen of V. cristata. 

 Flowers yellowish-brown inside, and somewhat tes- 

 sellated. Lip lilac, with deep yellow stains near the 

 base. Capsule said to be nearly a span long, with six 

 wings. 



22. Vanda Batemanni Lindl. in B. R., 1846, t. 59 ; alias 

 Fieldia lissochiloides Gaudich. 



V. radicibus crassissimis, foliis distichis coriaceis oblique 

 emarginatis obtusis racemo laterali multifloro breviori- 

 bus, bracteis coriaceis cueullatis squamseforinibus, 

 floribus maximis planis coriaceis, alabastris globosis, 

 sepalis obovato-cuneiformibus obtusis, labello triangulari 

 basi saccato lobis ascendentibus acutis apice carnoso 

 sulcato uncinate dente elevato in medio et crista brevi 

 transversa juxta basin. 



Found wild in the Moluccas, Philippines &c, growing on 

 trees near the coast. 



A very large erect plant, with remarkably thick aerial 

 roots, sword-shaped curved two-ranked hard leaves 

 averaging two feet in length, and a still longer spike of 

 some score of flowers, each full two inches and a hall 

 across, flat, leathery, and long enduring. But it is not 

 alone for their size that these flowers are so especially 

 worthy of notice. Their colour is indescribably 

 beautiful. If you look them in the face, they are the 

 richest golden yellow, spotted all over with crimson ; 

 but when seen from behind, they are wholly a vivid 

 purple, fading away at the edges into the violet of 

 Cereus speciosissimus. 



23 Vanda gigantea Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7326 ; alias 

 V. Lindleyana Griffith HISS. 



V. foliis late loratis apice obtusissimis emarginatis sub- 

 Eequalibus, racemis foliis duplo brevioribus, sepalis 

 petalisque oblongo-obovatis obtusis, labello incurvo 

 canaliculate basi cordate apice dolabriformi obtuso : 

 callo conico in medio. 



A native of Mmdmein, and other parts of the Burmese 

 empire. 



Leaves very long and broad, tough and fleshy. Flowers 

 of the size of V. Roxburghii, resupinate ; deep yellow 

 with cinnamon brown blotches. Mr. Griffith found 

 it in flower at Mergui, March 1, 1835. 



24. Vanda Lowei Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1847, p. 239. 



V. (foliis coriaceis rigidis distichis) ; racemo longissimo 

 pendulo flexuoso scabro-piloso, floribus maximis dis- 

 tantibus coriaceis. sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acumi- 

 natis valde undulatis extus scabris, labello parvo ovate 

 glabro cucullato acutissimo supra medium cornu refracto 

 setaque sub apice aucto. 



Native of the forests of Borneo on high trees in very damp 

 places. 



Flowers lemon-yellow, barred and blotched with bands and 

 spots of the richest cinnamon, three inches in diameter, 

 disposed in pendulous racemes 10 — 12 feet lon»r. 



