yellow dotted with brown. Flowers in late Summer or Autumn and lasts two to 
four weeks. Treatment as for Vanda Amesiana. 
VANDA LAMELLATA. Native of Philippine Islands. 
A small growing variety with slender, erect stems and long, narrow, strap-shaped, 
channelled, recurved leaves, with the typical notched tip. Flower spikes long and 
slender with up to a score of 2-inch flowers. Dorsal sepal and petals, bent back- 
wards, are creamy-white in colour. Lateral sepals divided longitudinally in 
halves, the outside halves white, the inner being reddish-brown with a purplish 
tinge. Lip somewhat fiddle-shaped in front, rich rosy-magenta in colour, side 
lobes creamy-white; disk marked with six reddish-purple stripes. Flowers in mid- 
winter and lasts four to six weeks. Treatment as for Vanda Arbuthnotiana. 
VANDA LIMBATA. Native of Java. 
A comparativeley rare species, with stout stems and long, thick, white roots and 
leathery, channelled leaves from 8 to 10 inches long and about an inch across. 
Racemes are erect, somewhat arching, and carry a dozen or more flowers each 
about 2 inches wide. Sepals and petals tongue-shaped, cinnamon-brown, blotched 
and mottled with reddish-brown and margined with yellow. The lip is squarish 
and somewhat pandurate. It is rosy-pink with a white margin, the disk having 
five to seven parallel grooves. Flowers in midsummer and lasts a month. Treatment 
as for V. Arbuthnotiana. 
VANDA LINDENI. Netive of New Guinea. 
A rare plant which I have not seen. It is similar in habit and form to Vanda 
hastifera. Sepals and petals oblong-cuneate with undulated edges, yellow spotted 
with red. Lip three-lobed and fleshy, lateral lobes erect, middle lobe triangular. 
VANDA LUZONICA. Native of Philippine Islands. 
A charming species, but very shy of blooming. Stems 18 inches to 2 feet tall, 
half an inch in thickness, rather woody, furnished with light green, arching leaves 
about 15 inches long. Racemes long with nine or ten flowers each about 2} inches 
across. Sepals and petals white tinged at the apex with magenta, the petals having 
a number of bars and dots of purple at the base. Lip white at the base, middle 
lobe magenta. Flowers in Autumn. This species requires warm, moist conditions 
and needs hothouse treatment in the South and a warm glasshouse in Brisbane. 
VANDA PARVIFLORA (syn: Aerides Wightianum). 
This species is mentioned as being worthy of attention by Australian growers. It 
is a very distinct, small growing variety from Southern India and Ceylon. Leaves 
are bilobed with a point between the two lobes. Racemes erect and fairly long. 
Flowers (5 to 9) rich yellow flushed with pink. Lip white and violet, spotted 
with lilac and having a crested disk. Sweetly scented with a honey-like fragrance. 
Flowers in midsummer. 
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