are roundish and white, the spur white and compressed. Flowers in Spring and 
early Summer, the blooms lasting a long time in perfection. I find that in Bris- 
bane Vanda tricolor grows excellently, well out in the open where it gets ample 
sunshine and fresh air. If it can be placed where the midday rays of the sun are 
partially broken the leaves are less likely to become yellowish. The effect of the 
strong light is to make for stronger, firmer plants and better flowers. Bushhouse 
treatment will suit them also, but there must be ample light. They grow natur- 
ally on shrubs and trees exposed to the full glare of the tropical Java sun, and 
buffeted by every breeze that blows. In the South a sunny place in a glasshouse 
will serve, but in the very cold parts artificial heat in the coldest part of the 
Winter is desirable. It is a very variable plant, some of the best varieties being:— 
Var. Corningii.—Foliage rather broader and darker coloured. Flowers large. Sepals 
and petals rich yellow spotted and streaked with deep crimson, the margins being 
rosy-purple. Lip dark reddish purple, the base pink. 
Var. Dodgeonii—Flowers large and numerous. Sepals and petals light amber, 
streaked and blotched with reddish-brown with violet margins. Lip large, 
purplish-violet, with a few white blotches near the base. Highly fragrant. 
Var. formosa.—Sepals and petals bright yellow covered with oblong red-brown 
spots arranged in rows, sometimes the spots flowing together into large blotches. 
Var. insignis.—Sepals and petals light yellow spotted with crimson. Lip pale 
rosy-lilac. A very free flowering species which blooms twice or even thrice a year. 
Var. Patersonii.—Flowers smallish (about 2 inches). Sepals and petals creamy- 
white, very thickly spotted with cinnamon-brown, the lip bright magenta. 
Var. planilabris—Flowers very large. Sepals and petals very broad. Citron yellow 
densely marked with brown spots. Lip large and flat, rose-pink with a purplish 
margin, the disk being striped with deep brownish-purple. 
Var. Wallichii—Spots on petals reddish-brown, with a rose border. Lip rose-lilac 
lined at the base with deep magenta. 
Var. Warnerii—Leaves narrower and prominently ribbed. Sepals and petals have 
a deep rose margin. Lip wholly deep rose-purple. 
VANDA VIOLACEA.—Syn. Anota violacea, which see under Saccolabium. 
VANDA VITELLINA. Native of India. 
A small growing species with stems from 6 to 12 inches tall, with leathery, 
channelled leaves unequally bilobed at the apex. Scapes, slender and erect, carry 
from 10 to 20 flowers, rarely an inch in diameter, and a deep golden-yellow in 
colour. Flowers in Spring and lasts four to five weeks. Treatment as for V. 
Arbuthnotiana. 
VANDA WATSONI. Native of Annam and Lower Burma. 
A slender species with short, slight stems up to a foot or 15 inches tall, with 
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