VANDA. 599 



at the apex, and erect rigid scapes a foot and a half long 

 from the base of the shoots. The flowers are about two 

 inches in diameter, white on the outside, the sepals and the 

 smaller petals obovate obtuse, yellowish green, dotted, not 

 tessellated, with reddish brown on the inside, and the lip 

 ovate in front, is convex, trilamellate on the disk, pink, with 

 a kidney-shaped bifid violet-coloured apex, the small basal 

 auricles and conical spur white. — Banfjoon. 



'FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5611; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 192; Gard. 

 Chron., 1867, 180', with fig. ; Flore des Serves, t. 2329. 



V. Catlicarti, Lindhy. — A tall scrambling but very distinct 

 and noble species, somewhat resembling lienanthera coccinea 

 in its general habit, but stouter. The leaves are arranged in 

 a distichous manner, pale green, six or seven inches long, 

 linear-oblong, unequally bilobed at the tip, the lobes rounded. 

 The flower-scape is erect, produced opposite the leaves, bearing 

 four or five fleshy flowers three inches in diameter ; the sepals 

 and petals roundish oblong sessile concave, white externally, 

 yellowish with numerous horizontal narrow often confluent 

 bands of reddish brown ; the lip three-lobed, the small lateral 

 lobes white with red streaks at the base, the middle lobe 

 whitish with a crenate incurved yellow border, and the disk 

 bearing two erect truncate calli. The thick prominent column 

 is green. This species has now become established in our col- 

 lections, but is rare. — Sikldm. Himalaya, 2,000 to 4,000 feet, 

 in hot places. 



Fig. — Boi. Mag., t. 5845; Jennings, Orch., t. 10 ; Flore des Serres, tt. 

 1251-2 ; Illust. Sort., t. 187 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 66 ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 

 168 ; Hook.Jil., III. Bim. PI, t. 23 ; Gard. Chron., 1870, 1409, fig. 251. 



Stn. — Esmeralda Cathcarti ; Arachnanthe Cathcarti. 



Y, CCBmlea, Griffith. — This remarkably handsome plant 

 produces an erect stem two to three feet high, with the usual 

 distichous loriform channelled coriaceous leaves, which are 

 unequally truncate with a concave notch and acute lateral 

 lobes. The erect scapes are much longer than the leaves, and 

 bear dense racemes of ten to fifteen flowers or more — the 

 flowers five inches across, with the membranaceous sepals 

 and petals flat oblong blunt and shortly stalked, of a beauti- 

 ful pallid blue, and the small lip linear-oblong, leathery, deep 

 blue, the point blunt with two diverging lobes ; the spur is 

 short and blunt, and the disk bears three lamellae. It does 

 not require so much heat as the other kinds. The flowers 



