CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 3G9 



Cyrtopera. 



C. flava. Native of India ; a terrestrial Orchid ; flowers large, 

 golden yellow, very beautiful upon their large spike ; grows in 

 the ground of the common border, where its spike of blossom 

 springs up in May, before any of the leaves appear. 



Vanda. 



1 V. gigantea. A noble Orchid ; flowers large, thick-petalledj 

 expanded, and somewhat resembling buffish-yellow butterflies 

 upon their fine large, deep-green, handsome foliage. 



2 V. Roxburgh!!. Native of Bengal ; often met with growing 

 upon the boughs of Mango-trees ; flowers above checkered with 

 yellow and dusky ferruginous-purple, beneath white; not 

 attractive. There are several varieties ; one entirely of cream 

 colour. 



3. V. teres. Native of Assam and Khassya; a curious plant, with 

 pale-green stem-like cylindrical leaves, which vary from the 

 thickness of a cedar-pencil to that of a quill; flowers large, 

 erect, very handsome, of a pale-rose colour ; the lip having the 

 form of a monk's cowl, large enough to hold a walnut, deep pink 

 with dark bars, tied on by two broad ribbons below the chin. 

 Not an uncommon plant in Calcutta. 



4. V. cserulea. Flowers borne in splendid racemes about a 

 foot long, ten or twelve in each raceme ; having the general 

 form of a star four inches across, with five wavy, pear-outlined 

 rays, beautifully mottled by the reticulations being of a deep 

 violet blue upon a paler ground of the same colour ; the base of 

 the lip small, deep-purple, projecting from the centre of the 

 flower. The flowers fade in time to an almost pure white. In 

 full blossom in November. Leaves strap-like, coriaceous, polished, 

 and equitant. One of the loveliest and most valued of 

 Orchids. 



5. V. Cathcarti. Native of Jynteah; flowers represented as 

 very large, rose-coloured externally, petals yellow internally, 

 densely striped with transverse lines of deep orange red. Dr. 

 Lindley says : " No more remarkable Orchid has been found 

 in Northern India ; and though not so showy as the gorgeous 



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