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VANDA violacea. 
Violet Vanda. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ VANDEÆ. (Oncuips, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p.173) : 
VANDA.—R. Brown. 
V. violacea (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 32.) ; foliis canaliculatis obliqué 
abscissis rotundatis, racemis multifloris densis pedunculatis pendulis, 
sepalis obovato-oblongis obtusis planis incurvis, petalis angustioribus, 
labello oblongo apiculato plano: venis 5 crassis elevatis, sacco intus 
pubescente. 
Although it is nearly six years since we first became 
acquainted with this species, it was only in February, 1846, 
that we had an opportunity of having it drawn. It then 
flowered in great perfection with Messrs. Loddiges. 
It is one of those charming epiphytes which are only 
procured in the fertile regions of the East. Mr. Cuming 
found it in Manilla, and introduced it to Europe. 
The flowers are in short pendulous racemes, rather large, 
with an ivory white ground spotted with light violet; of the 
latter colour there is one large blotch within the extremity of 
each sepal and petal, and a few small dots are scattered over 
their surface ; the lip is wholly violet. The flowers have a 
faint and rather disagreeable smell, which is not, however, 
perceived till they are nearly approached. 
Fig. 1. represents a side view of the column and lip of this 
plant. 
Although we now possess several Vandas of much beauty, 
the finest is still unknown in Europe. This glorious plant, 
perhaps the noblest of the Indian race, was called Vanda 
cerulea by Mr. Griffiths, who found it among the Khasya or 
June, 1847. M 
