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in 0111- Chelsea nursery in April of the following year^ when it was 

 dedicated by the late Professor Reicheubach to Lady Londesborough. 

 The variety, which is a horticultural form of great merit, differing 

 in nothing from the type except in colour, appeared some years 

 ao-o amongst an importation by the late Mr. B. S. Williams, of 

 Hollo way. 



V. Hookeriana. 



Stems cylindric, somewhat slender, 5 — 7 or more feet long in the 



wild state, much shorter under cultivation. Leaves like the stems, hut 



more slender, 2 — 3 inches long, channelled on the face, and mucronate 



at the apex. Peduncles from the upper part of the stem, 2 — 5 or 



more flowered. Flowers 2| inches in diameter, on white, slightly 



twisted, obscurely grooved pedicels 1 J- inch long ; sepals obovate- 



oblong, the upper one bent forward and much undulated, white faintly 



flushed with light purple, the lateral two narrower and keeled behind, 



wholly white ; petals broadly oval, undulated, white flushed with light 



purple and dotted with deeper purple, chiefly on the inferior half ; lip 



threedobed, the side lobes triangular-falcate, amethyst-purple with paler 



striatious ; front lobe broadly fan-shaped, itself three-lobed, the lobes 



rounded with crenulate margin, white much spotted and marked mth 



amethyst-purple, the spots and markings aggregated towards the short 



claw below which is a twodobed, white, fleshy crest ; spur short, acute. 



Column terete, bent, purple above, paler beneath ; anther shortly beaked. 



Yanda Hookeriana, Echb. in Bonpl. IV. p. 324 (1856). Id. in Gard. Chron. 

 XVIII. (1882), p. 488. The Garden, XXIII. (1883), t. 370. Williams' Orch. 

 Alb. II. t. 73. Illus. liort. 1883, t. 484. Sander's Reichenbachia, II. t. 74. 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 50. 



This lovely Vanda was communicated to Sir W. J. Hooker, at 



Kew, by Motley, some time prior to 1856, in which year the herbarium 



specimen was examined by the late Professor Reichenbach, and the 



species described by him in Seeman's Bonjylandia. There can be but 



little doubt, however, that the plant had been previously met with 



by Thomas Lobb and Sir Hugh Low, for Mr. Burbidge, who has 



also seen it in situ, states that it is common in north Borneo along 



rivers and in brackish swamps near the sea. It is particulaily 



abundant along the Tandaram and Limbang Rivers, about twentj'- 



miles from Brunei, and there Lobb, Low and others obtained it,* 



but failed to introduce it alive. It was not till 1879 that a very few 



living plants at length reached this country, and these were received 



by us from a correspondent at Labuan, and were immediately afterwards 



* The Garden, XXII. (1883), p. 10. Id. XXXVIII. (1890), p. 72. 



