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are produced during the autumn months, and last six weeks 

 in perfection. — Khasya Mountains. 



Pig. — Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., i. 1. 18 ; Pescaiorea, t. 29 ; Flore des Serves, 

 t. 609 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. t. 36 ; Moore, III. Orch. PL, Vanda 2 ; Jennings, 

 Orch., t. 34 ; IHust. Hort., t. 246 ; Lemaire, Jard. FL, t. 102 ; Puydt, Les 

 Orch., t. 45 ; L'Hort. Franq., 1862, t. 1 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 5. 



Y. COerulescens, Griffith. — This elegant little species has 

 elongated stems, with the leaves distichous, leathery, strap- 

 shaped, truncately bilobed, five to seven inches long, dark 

 green. The scapes are slender, axillary, erect, bearing from 

 ten to twenty flowers ; the cuneate ovate sepals and petals 

 are pale mauve-blue, twisted at the clawed base ; the lip 

 smaller obcuneate dilated emarginate, of a rich violet with 

 purplish hlac auricles, and the conical spur tipped with green. 

 It blooms during March and April, lasting a long time in 

 perfection. — Burmah. 



FlQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 5834 ; Orchid Album, i. t, 48 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., 

 t. 256 ; Griffith, Icon. PL As., t. 331 ; Gard. Chron., 1870, 529, fig. 97. 



Y. COerulescens Boxallii, Rchh. f. — A curious and charmiDg 

 form, in which the leaves are rigidly distichous, strongly 

 keeled, obliquely erose at the apex, and the flowers form a 

 rather close raceme on a comparatively short scape. The 

 flowers are white and blue and very effective, the obtuse or 

 retuse sepals and petals being white with a tinge of lilac, and 

 the lip with its dilated front lobe deep violet bordered with 

 white ; the disk bears some smooth longitudinal ridges, with 

 dark blue stripes alternating with white ones. — Transgangetic 

 India. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 6328. 



Y. COECOlor, Blume. — A distinct-looking plant referred by 

 Sir W. J. Hooker to V. Roxburghii. It has tall erect stems 

 five to six feet high, with lax membranaceous evergreen 

 leaves, which are obliquely tridentate at the ends. The 

 flowers are numerous, rather distant, in lateral elongated 

 racemes, the oblong obovate undulated sepals and petals 

 white on the outer surface, and of a uniform cinnamon-brown 

 within, the lip three-lobed, downy at the base, white with rosy 

 dots on the side lobes, the front or middle lobe cinnamon- 

 brown, cuneate and bilobed at the tip ; it has a conical 

 attenuated spur. — China. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3416. 



Syn. — V.furva {Bot. Beg., non Bl.) ; V. Roxburghii unicohr. 



