94 VAN PA. 



Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges prior to 1835^ in which year it 

 flowered in the garden of Earl Fitzwilliam, at Wentworth Woodhouse, 

 near Sheffield. It is now but rarely seen in orchid collections, the 

 homely colour of its flowers offering but little attraction to amateurs, 

 Its habitat is vaguely stated to be China. 



V. cristata. 



Leaves .")— 7 inches long, i- — | inch l)i(>a(l, irregularly three-toothed at 



the apex Racemes usually shorter than the leaves, 6 — 6 flowered. 



Flowers 2 inches in diameter on twisted six-ribbed pedicels ; sepals and 



petals incurved, of a uniform light yellow-green, the former spathulate- 



oblong, the latter narroAver, linear-oblong ; lip broadly oblong, with two 



incurved triangular basal lobes above the short conical spur ; the blade 



traversed longitudinally by 5 — 7 thickish raised white lines between 



which are deep red-purple stripes, and terminating in front in two lateral 



horn-like processes, and a similar smaller one beneath at the sinus 



between the other two. Column white. 



Vanda cristata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 216 (1832). Id. Sert. Orch. fig. 3, 

 in frontisp. Id. Fol. Orch. Vanda, ISTo. 23. Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 48. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4304. Kegel's Gartcnfl. 1870, t. 680. Williams' Orch. Alb. VII. t. 290. Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 53. V. striata, Echb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 137. 



A very distinct Vanda, inhabiting the lower or tropical Himalayan 



zone from Kumaon eastwards into Bhotan, It was gathered by 



the earlier Indian botanists in various localities aloug that rich orchid 



belt^ first in 1818;, in Nepal, by Dr. Wallich^ who subsequently sent 



it to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where probably it flowered for the 



first time in Europe, but no date is recorded. It was next found 



by Griffith in Bhotan, subsequently by Cathcart in Sikkim, and later 



by Falconer near Darjeeling. Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, in whose 



nursery it flowered in 1842, were probably the first to distribute 



it among the orchid collections of Great Britain. 



V. Denisoniana. 



Leaves pale green, 7 — 12 or more inches long, and about f inch 

 wide. Racemes shorter than the leaves, few flowered. Flowers 2|- inches 

 across vertically ; sepals and petals more or less reflexed, mucji undulated, 

 ivory-white, the upper sepal and petals oblong-spathulate, the lateral 

 sepals broader, obliquely obovate ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes erect, 

 rotund, concave on the inner side, and of a purer white than the 

 other parts of the lip ; the intermediate lobe oblong, contracted at the 

 middle and with an angular sinus in the anterior margin, convex above, 

 with four — five longitudinal thickened raised lines, greenish white ; spur 



