This species is found high up on the mountains and requires cool, sunny con- 
ditions. In Brisbane an ordinary bushhouse, where the morning sun can reach the 
plant and where there is plenty of fresh air, will do. In Sydney a cool glasshouse 
will be suitable. In the North, except on cool highlands, a bushhouse where the 
fierce rays of the sun are broken will be best. Abundance of water during the 
growing period, but very little from the beginning of Winter. The normal flower- 
ing period is Autumn or early Winter, but it is somewhat variable in this respect, 
fine specimens often being seen in Spring or even Summer. In the cooler seasons 
the blooms last about a month, but in Summer rather less. 
VANDA COERULESCENS. Native of Northern Burma. 
A rather slender species of great charm, the stems being from 6 to 12 inches or a 
little higher, with leathery, channelled leaves about 6 inches long, dark green in 
colour and with the usual apical notch. Scapes are slender, erect and about 15 
inches high, and bear from 10 to 20 flowers, each from 1 to 1} inches across, with 
ovate, spreading, somewhat incurved sepals and petals of pale mauve-blue, and a 
small rich violet-blue lip whose front lobe stands at almost right angles to the 
base, which is furnished with a green-tipped, conical spur. Treatment as for V. 
Arbuthnotiana, Flowers in Spring and lasts six weeks. 
Var. Boxallii.—Sepals and petals white tinged with lilac. 
VANDA CONCOLOR. Native of China. 
An interesting species which has stems from a foot to 5 or 6 feet high, with 
somewhat drooping, fleshy leaves obliquely three-pointed at the apex. Racemes 
are long and carry a considerable number of widely spaced flowers each from 
about 14 to 2 inches across. Sepals and petals are oblong-ovate, slightly un- 
dulated, white underneath and cinnamon-brown on the inside. The base of the 
lip is white and downy, the side lobes having a few pinkish dots. The front 
lip is cinnamon-brown and is bilobed at the tip. Sweetly fragrant. This species 
should be treated as prescribed for V. Arbuthnotiana, but a slightly warmer 
situation is desirable. Flowers in early Summer and lasts three to four weeks. 
(Syn. Vanda furva and Vanda stella.) 
VANDA CRISTATA. Native of Himalaya Mountains. 
A rather unsatisfactory and not very attractive species, having shortish, erect 
stems with the usual leathery, strap-like, notched leaves which are 3 to 5 inches 
long. Flower spikes short, erect and bearing from three to six fair-sized flowers 
with oblong, obtuse, incurved sepals and somewhat narrower petals of pale 
yellowish-green. The lip is oblong and convex, the apex being divided into three 
divergent lobes. On the inside this is brownish-yellow marked with red-purple 
stripes lengthwise, the side lobes being almost wholly of this reddish-purple. The 
under part of the lip is similar in colour to the sepals. Flowers in Spring and 
Summer, and lasts six weeks or more. Treatment as for V. Amesiana. 
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