VANDA DENISONIANA. Native of Burma. 
A very lovely, small growing species, with typical stems and very much decurved 
leaves, about 6 to 10 inches long. Racemes are short and stout, and carry about 
five to six flowers, each about 2 inches across. The upper sepals and the petals 
are broadly tongue-like, and the lower sepals are ovate, narrowed at the base. 
All these segments are white, delicately tinged with green, the lip being the same 
colour. The apex is divided into two broad, divergent lobes, the base having two 
erect side lobes. Treatment as for V. Arbuthnotiana. Flowers in Summer and 
lasts well. 
Var. Hebraica.—Petals and sepals sulphur-yellow, curiously barred and spotted 
with deeper yellow, these marks being, allegedly, like Hebrew characters. The 
front part of the blade of the lip is olive green. 
VANDA DENSIFLORA.—Syn. of Anota giganteum, which see under Sacco- 
labium. 
VANDA HASTIFERA. Native of Dutch East Indies. 
A very rare species with tall, rather slender, erect stems with recurved leaves of 
typical Vanda type. Racemes, long and rather drooping, bear 14 to 20 flowers 
about 2 inches across. Sepals and petals spathulate and undulate, light yellow 
blotched with red. The lip is triangular in front, and has two erect, triangular 
side lobes at the base. White marked with brown and purple, the crest hairy. 
Column white spotted with brown. Flowers in Summer. Treatment as for V. 
concolor. 
VANDA HELVOLA. Native of Java. 
This species is probably a variety of Vanda tricolor, being similar to that species 
in habit, but the flowers are smaller. Sepals and petals are pale yellow marked with 
reddish-brown. The lip is violet purple. Flowers in Summer and lasts about a 
month. Treatment as for Vanda tricolor. 
VANDA HINDSII. Native of Arnheim Land, North Australia. 
The only Australian species, and, from the description, probably more or less 
synonymous with Vanda tricolor. | have not seen this plant. Lindley’s descrip- 
tion is, in effect:—Stems of moderate length, much linear, canaliculate leaves 1 
foot or more long. Racemes 6 inches to 1 foot in length, with from three to ten 
large flowers, the spreading pedicels 2 to 3 inches long, including the ovary. 
Sepals and petals nearly 1 inch long, broadly ovate with sinuate margins con- 
stricted into a claw of a pale yellowish white outside, white inside with purple 
spots, slightly stained with yellow at the base and with pink towards the margins. 
Labellum at least as long as the sepals, convex, rather thick and fleshy, generally 
purple but with more or less of white towards the base and darker streaks on the 
disk; the lateral lobes broad and short, the middle lobe much longer, opovate, 
white. 
Lindley (Hook. Lond. Journal 11 237—Bentham Flora Australiensis). 
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