140 ABOUT ORCHIDS. 
vallia—that genus most impatient of sunshine 
among all orchids, flourishing here in the hottest 
blaze! Snatching up half a dozen of the tender 
plants with a practised hand, he brought them 
safe to England. On the day they were put up to 
auction news of Livingstone’s death arrived, and in 
a flash of inspiration Roezl christened his novelty 
M. Livingstoniana. Few, indeed, even among 
authorities, know where that rarest of Masdevallias 
has its home; none have reached Europe since. 
A pretty flower it is—white, rosy tipped, with 
yellow “tails.” And it dwells by the station of 
Culebras, on the Panama railway. 
Of genera, however, doubtless the Vandas are 
hottest ; and among these, V. Sanderiana stands 
first. It was found in Mindanao, the most southerly 
of the Philippines, by Mr. Roebelin when he went 
thither in search of the red Phalcenopsis, as will be 
told presently. Vanda Sanderzana is a plant to be 
described as majestic rather than lovely, if we 
may distinguish among these glorious things. Its 
blooms are five inches across, pale lilac in their 
eround colour, suffused with brownish yellow, and 
covered with a network of crimson brown. Twelve 
or more of such striking flowers toa spike, and 
four or five spikes upon a plant make a wonder 
indeed. But, to view matters prosaically, Vanda 
