Var. flava.—Ground colour of sepals and petals yellow instead of white, marked 
with broad oblong brown spots, lip paler in colour. 
Var. Gottschalckei—Stouter growing. Sepals and petals more densely spotted, 
the pedicels tinged with rose-pink. Lip bright rose-purple, tipped with white. 
Var. rubra.—Sepals and petals suffused with orange instead of marked with red 
dots and dashes. Lip red. 
VANDA TERES. Native of India, Burma, etc. 
A climbing species with a long, slender, cylindrical, terete stem, dark green in 
colour and furnished with numerous lateral aerial roots and erect, cylindrical, 
terete, pointed leaves. Racemes are erect and bear from two to six large and 
beautiful flowers about 3 inches across. Sepals are oblong and are white tinged 
with rose. Petals larger and rounder than the sepals, which they overlap. Deep 
rose in colour. The lip is large and bifid, deep rose-pink in front with yellow 
veins, the crest is orange lined and spotted with crimson. Spur conical, Flowers 
in Summer and Autumn, and lasts about a month. Treatment as recommended 
for V. Hookeriana. 
Var. teres alba.—Flowers white. Throat yellow striped with red. (Syn. teres 
candida.) 
Var. teres Andersoni.—Flowers more brilliantly coloured. 
Var. teres aurora.—Sepals white, petals white tinted with rose, throat light yellow. 
Lateral lobes pink with two rows of small purple dots. 
VANDA TESSELLATA. Native of India. 
A handsome species with fairly stout, erect stems up to 2 feet high and narrow, 
leathery, recurved, channelled leaves up to about 8 inches long. Flower spike, 
erect, bears from six to twelve flowers each about 2 inches across. These are 
white on the outside, the inside of the sepals and petals being yellowish-green 
much mottled with olive-brown. The three-lobed lip has a violet-purple middle 
lobe with white laterals, the spur being rose-pink. The flowers are strongly 
scented. Flowers in early Summer and lasts up to six weeks. Treatment as for 
V. Arbuthnotiana. 
(Syn. Vanda Roxburghii.) 
VANDA TRICOLOR. Native of Java. 
One of the most popular species among orchid growers in Australia. It has stout, 
tall, erect stems amply clothed with two rows of strap-shaped, channelled, bilobed, 
recurved leaves somewhat lighter in shade than those of V. suavis. The racemes 
are shorter than those of V. swavis, but carry up to a dozen (sometimes more) 
attractive flowers from 2 to 3 inches in width. These fragrant flowers have 
oblong-obovate, obtuse, fleshy sepals and petals which are white on the outside 
and, on the inside, cream or pale yellow spotted with brownish-red. The three- 
lobed lip has a convex, deeply bilobed’ middle lobe of bright rosy-purple, usually 
paler at the tip, and with five or six white lines in the disk. The lateral lobes 
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