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VANDA Batemanni. 
Crimson and Yellow Vanda. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDACE=. (Oncnips, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
VANDA. Supra, fol. 506. 
V. Batemanni (V. lissochiloides, Lindl. gen. & sp. orch. p. 216; Fieldia lisso- 
chiloides, Gaudich. voyage, 424. t. 36); radicibus crassissimis, foliis 
distichis coriaceis oblique emarginatis obtusis racemo laterali multifloro 
brevioribus, bracteis coriaceis cucullatis squameeformibus, floribus maxi- 
mis planis coriaceis, alabastris globosis, sepalis obovato-cuneiformibus 
obtusis, labello triangulari basi saccato lobis ascendentibus acutis apice 
carnoso sulcato uncinato dente elevato in medio et cristá brevi transversá 
juxta basin. . 
The honour of discovering this splendid thing is due to 
M. Gaudichaud, who met with it in the Moluccas ; of intro- 
ducing it to this country, to Mr. Cuming, who seht it from 
the Philippines; of first flowering it to Mr. Bateman, with 
whom it produced its magnificent sceptre in the stove at 
Biddulph Grange, in June and July last. 
It is a very large erect plant, with remarkably thick aerial 
roots, produced after the custom of its kindred, 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 half 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 indeseribably 
beautiful. If you look at them in 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. So that, 
regard them which way you will, there is nothing but the 
gayest and richest colours to be seen. 
What could possibly have led M. Gaudichaud to compare | 
this Epiphyte with the terrestrial Lissochilus we are unable to 
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