main stem, there being usually up to six or seven flowers in each cluster. Sepals 
and petals white with a faint tinge of pink. Lip funnel-shaped, the front portion 
being recurved. It is white with a pink tinge on the outside, and brownish-orange 
inside. 
VANILLA PLANIFOLIA. Native of West Indies. 
The Vanilla of commerce. Flowers about 2 inches across and pale, rather dingy 
greenish-white in colour. 
VANILLA WALKERIAE. Native of India. 
A leafless species. Sepals and petals pure white inside, the outside having a brown- 
ish tinge with a green streak down the centre. Petals with the same green streak, 
narrower than the sepals and translucent in appearance. The lip has the same 
semi-transparent appearance, and is bearded near the base. All the species flower 
in Spring and Summer. The blooms are rather short-lived, a week to ten days 
being about their average span. 
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A trigeneric, artificially created genus consisting of hybrids of Miltonia, Cochlioda 
and Odontoglossum. They are remarkable for their symmetry and brilliant colour- 
ing. Treatment as for Odontoglossums will serve, but they like rather warmer 
conditions. . 
WARREA 
A small genus of terrestrial orchids closely related to the Maxillarias and also to 
the Zygopetalums. They are all natives of South America and are very rarely 
seen in cultivation in Australia. They will do well in a compost of loam, leaf- 
mould, some fibrous peat and a little matured cow-dung. They need copious water 
during the growing season, but only sufficient to keep the compost reasonably 
damp during the Winter months. They relish good light and a rather warm 
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