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Vanda Batemanni. 

 Vancla Bensonii. 

 *Vancla coerulea. 

 *Vanda coerulescens. 

 * Van da Denisoniana. 

 Vancla gigantea. 

 Vancla limbata. 

 *Vanda insignis. 

 *Vanda suavis. 

 Vanda teres. 



ORCHIDS. 



*Vanda tricolor (in vaiiety). 



Warrea Lin ieniana. 

 Warscevviczella velata. 



Zygopetalum crinitum. 

 *Zygopetalum crinitum cceru- 



leum. 



Zygopetalum maxillare. 

 *Zygopetalum rostratum. 



SIGNIFICATION OF THE NAMES APPLIED TO 

 ORCHIDS. 



" Botanical or scientific names have usually been given for 

 some good reason. As a rule they are generally intended to 

 point out something remarkable or characteristic in the plant, 

 and are no more than classical ways of stating facts iden- 

 tically the same in nature as those expressed in ' blue-bell,' 

 ' white-thorn,' and * dandelion ' or * dent-de-lion.'' To persons 

 acquainted with Greek and Latin their meaning is obvious'; 

 but as many lovers of Orchids are unversed in those lan- 

 guages, we subjoin the interpretation of every classical name 

 and epithet which occurs in the preceding pages. Many of 

 the names bestowed upon Orchids, as upon other plants, 

 are of the kind termed commemorative and complimentary. 

 They are the names, that is to say, of persons who deserve 

 our respect or admiration, converted into Latin by the addi- 

 tion of the necessary final letters. Brassia^ for example, Cat- 

 tleya, and Broughtonia. When it is the specific name of the 

 plant that is so derived, the rule is that if the name be that of 

 the discoverer or introducer it shall end in ce or 2, as Wraya 

 or Pierardi. When, on the other hand, the name has been 

 bestowed purely in compliment, it ends after the manner ex- 



