South. It likes rather warmer treatment than Amesiana, and, like it, requires 
plenty of light. Flowers in midsummer and lasts three to four weeks. 
VANDA BATEMANII. 
(A synonym of Vandopsis lissochiloides, q.v.) 
VANDA BENSONI. Native of Northern Burma. 
A handsome species with strap-shaped, channelled, leathery leaves, unevenly bilobed 
at the apex, and from 6 to 8 inches long. Racemes are up to 18 inches long and 
bear from 10 to 15 flowers with obovate, rounded sepals and petals which are 
white on the underside, and yellowish-green on the inside dotted freely with 
reddish-brown. The reniform apex of the lip is a soft violet, the ovate, central 
part rose-pink, and the small side lobes and spur white. Treatment as for V. 
Arbuthnotiana. Flowers in Spring and lasts four to five weeks. 
VANDA BOXALLII. (See V. lamellata.) 
VANDA BRUNNEA. Native of Nepal. 
A rare species with stout, fleshy stems and crested, green, fleshy leaves, 6 to 7 
inches long, grooved on the upper surface and unevenly bilobed. Flower spikes 
8 or 9 inches long bearing six to eight flowers, each 1 to 1} inches across, Sepals 
and petals wedge-shaped, elongate and obtuse, deep-greenish brown on the inside 
and yellowish on the under parts. Lip cream or pale yellow, the long conical 
spur the same colour. Flowers in Summer and lasts three to four weeks, Treat- 
ment as for V. Arbuthnotiana. 
VANDA CATHCARTII.—See Esmeralda Cathcartii. 
VANDA CLARKEI.—See Esmeralda Clarkei. 
VANDA COERULEA (Sometimes CAERULEA). Native of Northern India 
and Burma. (Illustrated). 
This is a very lovely and probably the most popular species. It has stout, erect 
stems from 1 foot to 3 feet high with dark green, rigid, leathery, channelled 
leaves, about 6 to 8 inches long and unevenly bilobed at the apex. Scapes are from 
1 to 2 feet (even longer in fine specimens) in length and erect, and carry from 
10 to 20 good sized flowers which are from 4 to § inches across. The sepals and 
petals are flat, oblong and rounded. In good varieties the sepals and petals overlap 
at the base, making a particularly symmetrical and handsome flower. They are 
of a beautiful pale blue in colour, often tessellated with darker blue to a varying 
extent, so that in particularly fine plants the flowers appear to be almost cobalt 
in shade. (I have noticed that often the darker coloured flowers grow on plants 
with slightly broader leaves—this may be coincidence only.) The lip is small, 
narrow and oblong, the apex divided into two divergent lobes. The front portion 
is deep blue, the base and the lateral lobes being the same colour as the segments. 
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