VANDA. 605 



brown, and magenta. The dorsal sepals and two petals are 

 directed backwards, the dorsal sepal oblanceolate, creamy 

 white, the lateral ones obovate, with the inner side cut away 

 in a curve half-waj', this part reddish bi'own tinged with 

 purple ; the petals are oblong cuneate, white ; and the lip 

 has a squarish subpanduriform limb of a rich rosy magenta 

 towards the front, the disk with six reddish purple stripes 

 running back to the mouth of the tube. The creamy white 

 outer half of the lateral sepals, contrasting with the reddish 

 brown inner half, is peculiar. It flowers in November and 

 December, affords some variety, and is vastly superior to the 

 type. — Philippine Islands. 



Fm.— Garden, xix. 574, t. 287 ; Gard. Chron., N.S., xv., 87, fig. 18. 



V. limbata, Blume. — This rare and beautiful species is 

 distinct in growth, producing on longish peduncles the axil- 

 lary racemes of from twelve to thirteen flowers. The stems 

 are robust with long thick roots ; the leaves are leathery, 

 channelled, eight to ten inches long, and nearl}^ an inch 

 broad, with an obliquely retuse apex ; the flowers, which 

 grow in erect loose racemes, are two inches in diameter, 

 the spathulate sepals and petals cinnamon-brown, blotched 

 and tessellated with a darker shade of reddish brown, and 

 evenly bordered with yellow, the exterior tinged with lilac ; 

 the lip is quadrate, slightly pandurate, rosy lilac margined with 

 white, the disk tumid, with five to seven parallel grooves. 

 This species flowers in June, and lasts a long time in per- 

 fection. — Java. 



'ElG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6173 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, iii. t. 9. 



V. Parisllii, Bchh.f. — Avery handsome and distinct Yanda, 

 having at first sight the appearance of a Phalmiopsis. It is 

 a dwai-f stout-growing species, and produces broadly ligulate- 

 obtuse fleshy distichous bright green leaves with an unequal 

 bilobed apex ; and a stifi" erect scape supporting several large 

 prettily spotted flowers, of which the cuneate-oblong acute 

 sepals and petals are of a greenish yellow spotted with some- 

 what bold dots of reddish brown ; and the lip, which is very 

 powerfully scented with a peculiar odour, has the front lobe 

 pale magenta, narrowly margined with white, rhomboid, 

 gibbous below the apex with a median keel, and a violet- 

 coloured conical callus at the base, where is a short 



