The plants which agree with Sarcanthus as above defined 
are Vanda teretifolia and paniculata, an unpublished species 
(Sarcanthus succisus) from China, and probably some plants 
at present referred to Aerides. Vanda trichorhiza of Hooker, 
which is nearly allied to, if not the very same as, Hpiden- 
drum triste of Forster; and the Aerides Arachnitis of Swartz, 
appear to be species’ of Cymbidium, a genus which differs 
from Vanda in scarcely any thing beyond the absence of a 
spur from the lip, and in the articulation of the latter with 
the columna.” 
A native of China, whence it was imported by the 
Horticultural Society in 1821. Our drawing was made at 
Mr. Colvill’s Nursery in June 1824. 
A branching epiphyte. Stems thick, purple, rounded. 
Leaves lanceolate, fleshy, somewhat recurved. Spike 
stalked, opposite a leaf, horizontal, as long as leaves. Ovary 
round, white. Sepals spreading, equal, oval, yellowish, 
banded with red. Labellum fleshy, bright purple, spurred, 
rostrate at point, incurved; Spur obtuse, shorter than 
ovarium, one-celled inside, very fleshy in front, with an 
opercular, smooth, simple appendage. Columna erect, 
clavate, half-round. Stigma roundish, hollowed out, with 
-arostellum lengthened into a long beak. Anther of the 
same figure, 2-celled.. Pollen-masses two, 2-lobed ; cauwdt- 
cula subulate, elongated; gland small. | 
J. L. 
