G06 OECHID-GEOWER's MANUAIi. 



gibbous spur and small white orange-striped auricles. It 

 flowers during the summer months. — Moiihnein. 

 Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 15. 



Y. ParisMi Marriottiana, Rchb. f. — A very distinct and 



beautiful variety, first flowered by Sir W. H. S. Marriott, 

 Bart. It is a dwarf compact plant, with the short stems 

 closely set with distichous ligulate-obtuse fleshy leaves, 

 slightly and unequally emarginate ; the scape is axillary 

 erect, bearing a raceme of about six handsome flowers, of 

 which the sepals and petals, instead of being spotted as in the 

 type, are bronzy brown richly sufi'used with magenta, and the 

 lip has white basal auricles and a rich magenta rhomboid 

 front lobe. The flowers of this variety are not scented. It 

 blossoms during the summer months. — Moulmein. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 61. 



V. EoxhurgMi, B. Br.— A well-marked old species, having 

 stout dwarfish erect stems, with two-ranked ligulate chan- 

 nelled recurved leathery leaves, obliquely tridentate at apex. 

 The peduncles are erect, and bear a raceme of six to twelve 

 flowers, which have the bluntly oblong-obovate sepals and 

 petals pale green with chequered lines of olive brown, the outer 

 surface white, and the lip violet-purple, and convex in the 

 front parts, deeper purple towards the point, the lanceolate 

 lateral lobes white, and the base projected backwards to form 

 a short pinkish spur. The flowers appear during the summer, 

 and last five or six weeks in beauty. There are several varieties 

 of this plant, one having a darker-coloured blue lip than the 

 other, and one having the lip pink. — India : Bengal. 



FiQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 2245 ; Bot. Reg., t. 506 ; Flore des Strres, ii.t. 2 ; Id., 

 t. 641, fig. 2 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., vii. 265, with tab. (pink lip) ; Wight, Icon, 

 PI. Tnd. Or., t. 916 ; Rchb. PI. Exot., t. 121 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 59; Paxt. 

 Fl. Gard , ii. t. 42, fig. 2. 



Syn. — V. tessellata ; V. tesselloides ; Cymbidium tesselloides, 



Y. Sanderiana, Bchb. f. — One of the most wonderful and 

 distinct Orchids that has been introduced for many years, 

 and one which produces the largest flowers of any Vanda 

 known up to the present time. It was first flowered by W. 

 Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhtad. The growth resembles 

 that of V. carulea, but the stem is stouter and larger in all 

 its parts, and more densely leafy ; the leaves are broadly 

 ligulate rigid leathery recurved, from nine to twelve inches 

 long and an inch broad, deeply channelled, and having the 



