VANDA. 497 
Usually this species does not flower with freedom; in 
Sir G. Macleay’s garden at Pendell Court, however, it 
blooms annually. There it is trained on a back wall, 
which is always damp, and the temperature in winter is 
kept between 5odeg. and 6odeg. A moist position, there- 
fore, should be selected, where the direct rays of the sun 
do not reach the plants. 
V. Denisoniana.—A dwarf species, whose lovely white 
flowers distinguish it from all other Vandas. The leaves 
are 6in. to roin. long, strap-shaped, and much decurved ; 
from their axils the four- to six-flowered racemes are 
produced, each flower being about 2in. in diameter. The 
upper sepal and the two petals are broadly spathulate, 
the lower sepals being more ovate, narrowed at the base. 
The lip is contracted in the middle, the terminal portion 
dividing into two outwardly curving lobes. Reichenbach 
compared its shape to that of a blackcock’s tail. A native 
of the Arracan Mountains, whence it was introduced in 
1869. It blooms during the summer months. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5811. 
Var. hebraica has sulphur-coloured sepals and _ petals, 
curiously marked on the inside with spots and bars, the 
resemblance of which to Hebrew characters suggested the 
name. Introduced from Burmah in 1885. 
Williams’ Orchid Album, t. 248. 
V. gigantea.—A robust plant, erect in habit, with deep 
green, broad, leathery leaves 13ft. long, bilobed at the 
apex. The spike is drooping, and usually bears ten to 
fifteen flowers, the sepals and petals of which are of a 
deep golden yellow, unevenly blotched with cinnamon- 
brown; the, lip is small, thick, and fleshy, and, like the 
column, is white; the whole flower measures jin. at its 
broadest diameter. Like V. Batemanni, this Orchid flowers 
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