Many other instances of this relation between the botanical 
characters of Asiatic plants and their geographical distribution 
may be cited; and the same remark applies to the animal 
kingdom and especially to the insects, which are so closely 
correlated in form, colouring, and habits of life, with the 
flowers they affect. 
_ Vanda limbata was introduced by Messrs. Williams of Hol- 
loway, with whom it flowered in July of last year. 
Duscr. Stem in the cultivated species three feet high, as 
thick as the little finger, green, with long straggling roots as 
thick as a goosequill. Zeaves six to eight inches long, dis- 
tichous, linear, three-quarters to one and a half inches broad, 
recurved, keeled, obtusely unequally bifid at the top; dark 
green. taceme six to eight inches long; peduncle about as 
long, laxly 10-12-flowered, green; bracts minute, triangular. 
Pedicel and ovary nearly two inches long, white. Pertanth two 
inches in diameter. Sepals and petals nearly equal and similar, 
spathulate bright cinnamon-coloured within and _ tesselated, 
_ with a golden border, pale and suffused with lilac externally. 
Lip 3-lobed, pale lilac, produced behind into a short conic 
obtuse spur; lateral lobes small, rounded; midlobe as long 
as the sepals, quadrate, slightly fiddle-shaped, obscurely 
mucronate at the truncate tip, angles rounded, disk tumid, 
with five to seven parallel grooves, margins reflexed, claw 
with a prominent callus. Column short, hooded.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary, lip, and column; 2, front view of lip and column :—both 
magnified, 
