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THE THEEE-COLOUEED VAXDA. 
(VANDA TRICOLOR.) 
A heaittiful Stove Epiphyte, native of Java, belonging to the Natural Order of Okciiids. 
specific C^aractn:, 
THE THREE-COLOURED VANDA. Leaves distichous, 
channelled, shorter than the few-flowered raceme. Sepals 
leathery, unguiculate, obovate, obtuse. Lip of the same 
length, three-lobed, with three lines in the axis. Spur 
short, obtuse; its lateral lobes rounded, broader than that 
in the middle, which is convex, cuneate and emarginate. 
VANDA TRICOLOR; foliis distichis canaliculatis racemo 
paueifloro longioribus, sepalis coriaceis unguiculatis ob- 
ovatis obtusis, labello sequilongo trilobo per axin 3-lineato, 
calcare brevi obtuso, laciniis lateralibus rotundatis inter- 
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Vanda tricolor : Lindley in BoL Reg., 1847, stii t o^ ; alias V, suaveolens. Blume Rumphia, iv., p. 49, (1848). 
T^His fine Orchid was first imported from Java by Messrs. Yeitch, but lias since readied England 
through other channels. It has the habit of Fanda RoxlnrgUi^ and its flowers appear in the same 
manner, but they are larger, have yellow and brown spotted sepals, and a rose-coloured lip, with the 
lateral lobes rounded, not acute, and colourless. It is near Y. Hmdsii, a New Guinea plant, not 
yet in cultivation ; but that species has a long many-flowered raceme^ extending as iiir as the points 
of the leaves. It has also been compared with Vanda hmgyiis, an account of which has been 
published by Dr. Blume, with a figure, of a part of which the follo^ving is a copy : 
From this we learn that Vanda insignis has a concave, not convex, lip, with 
very small lateral lobes, and the broad central lobe deeply heart-shaped. 
Many varieties of tliis species 
occur in collections, of which the 
tliree following are the most nota- 
ble: — 1- V. t ^aliens. Flowers 
cream-coloured^ with scattered 
brown spots. 2. V.t. cinnamo- 
mea. Flowers yellower, with lines 
coloured 
With 
a 
clear 
ground-colour 
brown spots, and a flat purple 
distinct from the others. 
nilahris 
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