Tab. 5834. 

 vanda oerulescens. 



Pale Blue Vanda. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5174.) 



Vanda cwrulescens ; caule elongato folioso, foliis angustis loratis truncato- 

 bilobis profunde carinatis, scapis distanter vaginatis pendulis, racemis 

 elongatis multifioris, pedunculis trigonis, sepalis petalisque pallide 

 csruleis patentibus incurvis subundulatis obovato-spathulatis subun- 

 guiculatis, labello parvo, lobis lateribus minutis columcaa adnatis, lobo 

 intermedio-obcuneato apice subdilatato emarginato, marginibus deflexis 

 disco violaceo callis 2 elongatis crassis carinaeformibus instructo, calcare 

 labello paulo breviore incurvo subacuto. 



Vanda c£erulescens, Griff. Notulce, p. 352 ; Ic, t. 331 ; Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 

 Vanda, p. 9; Walp. Ann., vol. vi. p. 868.— GW. Chrm., 1870, p. 529, 

 Fig. 97. 



It has long been known that a second blue Vanda, allied 

 to the celebrated Vanda carulea, but much smaller in all its 

 parts, had been discovered by Griffith near Bamo, in Birmah, 

 so long ago as 1837 ; but nothing further was known of the 

 plant until it was rediscovered by Colonel Benson in 1867, 

 when he communicated specimens and a coloured figure to 

 the Kew Herbarium, from hills near Prome, at an elevation 

 of 1500 feet above the sea. Thanks to his energy, live 

 specimens were shortly afterwards sent to Messrs. Veitch, 

 which flowered in the Eoyal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, in 

 March of the present year, and from which the accompanying 

 drawing was made. Though by no means comparable either 

 for size or colour with Vanda carulea, it is a very elegant 

 plant, and well worthy of cultivation. 



Descr. Stems one to two feet long, as thick as the little 

 finger, woody, with long, stout, flexuous roots at the bases 

 of the leaves. Leaves numerous, distichous, dense, five to 



May 1st, 1870. 



