[Plate 36.] 
THE BLUE VANDA. 
(VAN DA C<EBULEA.) 
A Stove Epiphyte, from Woods on the Kiiasya Hills of Isdia, belong g to Ohciiids. 
Jtycctttc Cljaractrr. 
THE BLUE VANDA.— Leaves distichous, leathery, equal- 
ended, truncate, with a concave notch and acute lateral 
lobes. Spikes close, erect, many-flowered. Bracts oblong, 
concave, very blunt, membranous. Sepals and petals 
light blue, membranous, oblong, very blunt, flat, with a 
short claw. Lip leathery, deep blue, linear-oblong, obtuse 
at the point with two diverging lobes, three plates along the 
middle, and a pair of triangular acuminate lobes at the 
base. Spur short, blunt. 
VANDA CCERULEA ; foliis distk-his coriaceit apice 
sequalibus truncatis sinu concavo lobis lateral i bus acutis, 
spicis densis erectis multifloris, bracteis oMmgis concavia 
obtusissimis membranaceis, sepalis petal isque azureis 
membranaeeis oblongis obtusissimis planis subunguiculatis, 
labello coriaceo lineari-oblongo apice divergent! -bilobo 
obtuso per axin trilamellato laciniis basilaribus triangu 
laribus acuminatis, calcare brevi obtuso. 
Vanda coerulea : Griffith MSS. ; Liadl. in Bot. Reg., 1847, sub t. 30. : No. 1284 Griffith, Itim y Kola, p. 88. 
" ^his glorious plant, perhaps the noblest of the Indian race, was called Vanda ccerulea by Mr. Griffith, 
who found it among the Kiiasya or Cossya Hills, and sent us dried specimens. Its flow. -re are 
as large as those of Vanda teres, and the foliage is as good as that of Aerides odoratum. It is to be 
regretted that we should have no more exact information as to where it may be found, but we can 
hardly suppose that it could be missed by any plant-collector who might be sent after it into Sylhct. 
" The leaves of this wonderful plant are five inches long by nearly one inch wide ; at their end 
they are two-lobed equally, and each lobe is sharp-pointed, so that the end looks as if a piece had 
been struck off by a circular punch. The flowers grow in upright spikes. A piece of a stem but 
four inches long bears four such spikes, which are from six to nine inches long, and carry from nine 
to twelve flowers. Each dried flower is between three and four inches in diameter, and if allowance 
