496 ORCHIDS. 
end. The flowers are jin. to 4in. in diameter, and are 
produced, four or five together, on stout racemes. The 
sepals and petals are broad-oblong, overlapping each 
other; the ground-colour is pale yellow, but it is almost 
covered with transverse bands of reddish brown. The 
lip is three-lobed, white, tinged with red on the side lobes, 
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Fig. 111, Flower of Vanda Cathcartii 
(nat. size). 
the margin of the middle lobe being yellow and curiously 
incurved. Sir Joseph Hooker, who discovered this Orchid, 
says that it inhabits hot valleys in the Eastern Himalayas, 
and is usually found in the neighbourhood of waterfalls. 
Syns. Arachnanthe Cathcarti, Esmeralda Cathcarti. 
Fig. 111; Botanical Magazine, t. 5845. 
