ORCHID SPECIES 



pelago. The flowers are tawny -yellow in colour with dark brown oblong 

 spots, and the lip is bright rose-purple. 



VANDA INSIGNIS, Blume, var. SCHEODEEIANA, Rchb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xx. p. 392 ; The Garden, 1884, vol. xxv. t. 429. 



This variety, which is remarkable for the colour deviation from the 

 type, was introduced in Curtis's consignment. 



VANDA SUAVIS, Lindl 



Syns. V. tricolor, var. suavis, Veitch. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 351, fig. ; Bot. Mag. t. 5174 ; Paxt. PI. Gdn. t. 42, fig. 3 ; 

 PI. des Serres, 1862, tt. 1604-1605 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 107, fig. 



Introduced from Java through Thomas Lobb, and for many years one of 

 the rarest Vandas in cultivation ; it was first exhibited in flower on April 

 4th 1848. 



Always associated with Vanda tricolor in its native home, it was 

 imported mixed with the latter, although in small quantities. 



The flowers are fragrant, produced in racemes in the axils of the leaves ; 

 they are white in colour spotted with red-purple, and the basal half of the 

 lip is deep purple. 



VANDA TEICOLOK, Lindl. 



Bot. Eeg. 1847, sub t. 59 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4432, PI. des Serres, 1850, torn. vi. t. 641 ; 

 Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 106. 



Vanda tricolor was introduced from Java in 1846 through Thomas Lobb, 

 who discovered it in the western part of the island, at 1,500-2,500 ft. 

 elevation, growing chiefly on large trees. 



Eesembling V. suavis in foliage, habit and inflorescence, it may be 

 distinguished by the ground colour of its pale yellow flowers, which is 

 white in V. suavis. 



ZYGOPETALUM BUEKEI, Rchb.f. 



Echb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xx. p. 684; Orchid Album, t. 142; Veitchs' 

 Man. Orch. PI. pt. ix. p. 44. 



Introduced in 1881 through David Burke, by whom it was discovered 

 on Eoraima in British Guiana. 



It inhabits rocks in the swamp, in which Cypripedium Lindley- 

 anum and Heliamphora nutans have their home, at elevations of about 

 6,000 ft. 



The colouring of the parts of the flower is very striking ; the sepals 

 and petals are green with seven to nine longitudinal chocolate-brown 

 stripes, which sometimes become broken up into dots ; the lip is milk 

 white, irregularly dentate along the margin, with about thirteen violet 

 purple ribs, and the column is yellow streaked with purple. 



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