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ORCHID- GROWER S MANUAIi. 



The true plant is, however, now in cultivation. Its stems 

 are sub-erect, clothed with distichous rigid linear-ligulate 

 curving channelled leaves, which are unequally cut away or 

 denticulate at the tip ; and producing five to seven-flowered 

 racemes about equalling the leaves in length. The flowers 

 are as large as those of V. tricolor; the obovate spathu- 

 late obtuse sepals and petals are of a light brown within 

 spotted with deep chocolate-brown, yellowish white on the 

 outside ; and the lip is large, almost fiddle-shaped, with two 

 short white side lobes, the front lobe white, semiovate at the 

 base, suddenly expanding into a concave semilunar limb of 

 a light purplish rose, the disk traversed by two low ridges. 

 It is exceedingly handsome, producing its blooms in May and 

 June. — Moluccas ; Timor. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5759; Jennings, Orch., t. 46 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, 

 i. t. 3 ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 172 ; Blume, Rumph., t. 192 and t, 197 ; Paxt. 

 Fl. Gard., ii. 19, with fig. 



V.insignis Sdiroderiana, Echb.f. — A very chaste and dis- 

 tinct novelty, which was exhibited by Baron Schroder in 

 1883. The flowers are similar in form to those of the type, 

 but their colours are quite distinct, being yellow and white ; 

 the sepals and petals are of a light yellow, and the lip, which 

 has a large concave anterior limb, pure white. It flowers in 

 autumn. — Malay Islands. 



Y. lamellata Boxallii, 



Pichb. f. — A very distinct 

 and charming variety, of 

 very free -flowering char- 

 acter, and which on ac- 

 count of its dwarf habit 

 takes up but little room. 

 It has slender erect stems, 

 long narrow ligulate chan- 

 nelled much recurved 

 leaves, obliquely and 

 acutely bidentate at the 

 tip, and handsome floral 

 racemes, which are longer 

 than in the type, bearing 

 fourteen to twenty flowers, 

 which are handsomely 

 coloured with white, rich 



VANDA LAMELLATA BOXALLII. 



