VANDA. 597 



state it is a long time before it recovers ; it blooms during the 

 summer months, and lasts some time in beauty. Propagation 

 is effected by dividing the plant when it has done growing, or 

 just as it begins to push. 



TJ. Lindeni, Lindley. — A monotypic plant of much interest 

 on account of the singular structure of its flowers. It forms 

 a distichous tuft of erect leathery ligulate obtuse pale green 

 leaves, about ten inches in length, resembling those of Cypri- 

 pediiim caudatum, the branching two-flowered velvety scape 

 growing up a foot high or more from the centre of the leaves. 

 The blossoms, which are produced from the loose spathaceous 

 bracts, are large and singular in shape ; the sepals are broad 

 oval lanceolate with wavy edges, white with green veins, the 

 linear-ligulate petals, and the lip which is oblong lanceolate 

 at the base, are velvety white streaked with green at the base, 

 the points being lengthened out into purplish red tail-like 

 appendages, which frequently attain as much as two feet in 

 length. It flowers in May. — ]>!eiv Grenada. 



Fig. — Pescatorea, t. 2 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 15 ; Flore des Serves, vi. 123, 

 with fig. ; Belg. Hort., 1854, 193, with tab. ; Gartenjlora, t. 315. 



Vanda, B. Brown. 



{Tribe VandeEe, subtribe Sarcantheae.) 



This genus contains a number of magnificent species ; 

 indeed, there are not many Orchidaceous plants that surpass 

 Vandas in the beauty of their foliage and flowers. What 

 more beautiful picture can there be than an Orchid-house 

 with flowering Vandas, and what more delightful than the 

 atmosphere of such a structure filled with their delicious fra- 

 grance ? Their habit of growth is the same as that of 

 Aerides and Saccolabiuni, that is to say, they have erect 

 leafy stems, the leaves being evergreen, usually channelled, 

 distichous and leathery, often long and gracefully decurved, 

 praemorse or bilobed, sometimes though rarely terete ; the 

 peduncles are lateral, produced from the axils of the leaves, 



