indeed, that I was quite disposed at first to consider our plant as 

 a white-flowered variety of it. Indeed, generically, I do not see 

 how these two plants are to be distinguished. The " rostellum 

 subulatum" and the " labellum indivisum " are the same in 

 both ; but our plant exhibits nothing of the five elevated lines 

 described and so distinctly figured in the Vanda. The flowers 

 too of the latter are said to have a faint and rather disagreable 

 smell. As Vanda violacea, however, is not introduced into the 

 genus Vanda in Dr. Lindley's ■ Folia Orchidacea,' a memoir 

 published six years after that of V. violacea, it is probable the 

 author may have thought it right to remove the latter from 

 Vanda. Neither on the other hand is it mentioned in Dr. Lind- 

 ley's list of " species excluded" from that genus. 



Kg. 1. Front view of a flower, the perianth being removed. 2. Side new of 



the same : — magnified. 



