VANDA. 601 



V. cristata, Lindley. — A distinct and curiously marked 

 Orchid. The stems are erect free-growing, with distichous 

 carinate leathery ligulate leaves, truncate and three- 

 toothed at the apex. The peduncles are short axillary 

 erect, three to six-flowered, the oblong obtuse arching sepals 

 and narrower petals of a yellow-green, and the lip oblong, 

 convex saccate towards the front, and divided at the apex into 

 three narrow acute diverging lobes, green beneath, the upper 

 surface deep velvety tawny yellow marked with blood-purple 

 longitudinal stripes, the basal auricles ovate, of a deep blood- 

 purple on the inner face. It produces its flowers from March 

 to July, and lasts in bloom for sis weeks or two months. — 

 Nepal ; Bhotan ; Sikkim. 



'Fig.— Sot. Mag., t. 4304; Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 48 ; Moore, 111. Orch. PI, 

 Vanda 3. 



V. DemsOEiana, Benson and Rchb. f. — A very chaste and 

 desirable species, the first white Vanda which has yet been 

 discovered. In its habit of growth it much resembles V. 

 Bensoni, but the foliage is broader and somewhat longer. Its 

 stems are erect, with lorate rigid recurved dark green leaves 

 deeply two-lobed at the apex, both the lobes being sharp- 

 pointed. The racemes are axillary, five to six-flowered, on 

 stout ascending peduncles, while the flowers themselves are 

 medium-sized, thick and fleshy, the oblong spathulate dorsal 

 sepal and the broadly ovate lateral ones, as well as the 

 spathulate petals, being white slightly tinged with green, the 

 lip being also white, pandurate, the apex two-lobed with the 

 lobes divaricate like the tip of a blackcock's tail, the base 

 with two sub quadrate auricles, and the spur short and 

 conical. — Arracan Mountains. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. fiSll ; lUust. Hort., 3 ser., t. 105; Florist and Pomol, 

 1869, 249, with fig. ; Card. Chron., N.S., xsiv. 105, fig. 21. 



V. Denisoniana hebraica, BcU. /.—In this new variety, 



which was introduced by us, the sepals and petals are sulphur- 

 coloured on both sides, but darker within, where they are 

 covered with numerous spots, and transverse short bars, 

 somewhat resembling Hebrew characters ; spur orange in- 

 side ; anterior part of the blade of the lip olive green. 

 Flowers in July. — Burmah. 



V. gigantea, Lindley. — A noble and stately plant, with 

 bold distichous dark green broadly lorate recurved tough 

 fleshy leaves a foot and a half long, very blunt at the apex. 



