Tas. 4452. 
VANDA _  Trico.or. 
Three-coloured Vanda. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4304.) 
~ Vanna tricolor ; foliis distichis canaliculatis racemo pauci-(multi-)floro longiori- _ 
bus, sepalis coriaceis unguiculatis obovatis obtusis, labello eequilongo trilobo 
per axin 3-lineato, calcare brevi obtuso, laciniis lateralibus rotundatis inter- 
medio convexo cuneato emarginato latioribus. Lindl. 
_ Vanna tricolor. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847. p. 59, ad calcem. 
One of the many very fine plants recently introduced by 
Messrs. Veitch and Son from Java, through Mr. Thomas Lobb. 
Dr. Lindley compares it with V. Hindsii, a New Guinea plant, 
with which we are unacquainted, and he distinguishes it from 
Vanda insignis of Dr. Blame (Rumphia, t. 192. f. 3), most justly. 
It is besides a far handsomer species, and indeed one of the 
most beautiful of this eminently beautiful genus. Our specimen 
was kindly communicated by Messrs. Veitch in December, 1848. 
Dzscr. The stem is of moderate length, sending out large 
fleshy roots from the base, by which it is supported on trees, 
clothed with distichous linear-lorate, canaliculate, bright green 
leaves, a foot and more long. The raceme is drooping, of many 
large, handsome flowers, upon long clavate ovaries, striated and 
resembling thickened flower-stalks. The flowers are among the 
largest of the genus. Sepals obovate, attenuated at the base, 
Spreading, waved, rich full yellow, with numerous spots and 
streaks of a dark blood colour: petals similar in general shape 
and colour, but rather narrower. Lip as long as, or rather 
longer than, the perianth, thick and fleshy, oblong-cordiform, 
or it may almost be called lyrate, being three-lobed, the two 
lateral lobes rounded, the middle oblong, a little dilated at the 
apex, and there imperfectly two-lobed: the colour of the lip is 
generally purple, with elevated lines and streaks, the base and 
MARCH Ist, 1849. 
