Climate.—The plant is found at from 6000 to 8000 feet on the highlands of 
Travancore and Ceylon. The temperature range is from a minimum of 43 
degrees to a maximum of 74 degrees. It should therefore do well enough under 
bushhouse conditions in Queensland—and under glass in Sydney in the Winter 
time. Like most of the genus, it can take almost unlimited water in the Summer, 
with just sufficient in the Winter time to prevent withering. 
VANDA PUMILA. Native of Northern India. 
A small growing variety, similar in form and habit to V. Denisoniana. Flowers 
about 3 inches across. The sepals and petals whitish spotted with red towards 
the base. Lip blood-crimson with white stripes. Flowers in Spring and lasts 
three to four weeks. Treatment as for V. Arbuthnotiana. 
VANDA SPATHULATA. Native of India. 
I have not seen this variety. It has tall, stout stems with fleshy, recurved, tri- 
dentate leaves. Flower scapes erect and bear a dozen two-inch flowers which are 
wholly golden-yellow. Flowers in late Spring and early Summer. 
Syn. Renanthera spathulata. 
VANDA STANGEANA. Native of Assam. 
A fragrant species very similar to Vanda tessellata. Flower spikes erect and bear 
5 or 6 flowers each 1} to 2 inches across. Sepals and petals greenish or ochre 
coloured, tessellated with dark reddish-brown. Lip trilobed, the centre lobe 
rather heart-shaped and triangular, bilobed at the apex, white marked with mauve, 
sometimes wholly mauve. The auricles of the lip are blunt, white with yellow 
sparsely spotted with mauve. Flowers in late Spring and early Summer. Lasts 
five to six weeks. Treatment as for V. Arbuthnotiana. 
VANDA SUAVIS—Variety of V. tricolor. Native of Java. 
A noble and popular species which should be in every collection. It has tall, erect 
spikes, sometimes reaching a height of over 6 feet, clothed with strap-shaped, 
rather flaccid, dark green leaves, unevenly bilobed at the apex, and up to 16 inches 
long by 14 inches across. Racemes are long and bear a dozen or more handsome 
and sweet-scented flowers from 2 to nearly 5 inches across. Sepals and petals 
broadly spathulate and waved, white on the outside and freely spotted and barred 
with reddish-purple. In the type species the petals are often twisted so as almost 
to bring their backs to the front. In others the flower has the petals facing front- 
wise. The lip is three-lobed, the front lobe narrow and bilobed, pale rosy-purple 
in colour, lateral lobes ovate, flat and a deeper shade of purple. Flowers in late 
Spring and Summer. Lasts five to six weeks. This species likes slightly shadier 
conditions than most of the Vandas. It does well in an open bushhouse in Brisbane 
and the North, but glasshouse treatment would be necessary in the South. 
Var. Charlesworthii—More richly spotted and streaked. Lip rosy-purple flecked 
with darker dots, side lobes violet purple with white edges. 
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