98 VAN PA. 



auricles ami two low white ridges between them ; blade broadly clawed, 



semilunar, concave with entire edge, bright rose purple ; spur conic, 



compressed, recurved. Column very thick, stained with pale rose. 



Vanda insignis, Blnme, Rumjihia, IV. p. 48, t. 192, f. 2 (1848). Lindl. in Paxt. 

 FI. Gard. II. p. 19, icon. xyl. Rchb. in Oard. Chron. 1868, p. 1259. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5759. Jennings' Orch. t. 46. Williams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 172. 



var.— Schroederiana. 



Sepals and petals light yellow shailed with orange ; lip cream-white 

 with two orange lines in front of the spur. 



V. insignis Schroederiana, Rchb. in Gaid Chron. XX. (1883), p. 392. The Garden, 

 XXV. (1884), t. 429. 



First discovered by Blume in the island of Timor some time prior 

 to 1848, the date of the publication of Biimjyhia in which it is figured 

 and described. It was re-discovei*ed by our collector, Hutton, in 1866, 

 and introduced by us through him in the following year ; it flowered 

 for the first time in this country in our Chelsea Nursery in the 

 autumn of 1868. It continued to be very rare in British collections 

 till re-imported by us in 1882 through Curtis, at that time collecting 

 for us in the Malay Archipelago. It occurs along the coast of Timor 

 and the adjacent small island of Semao, and on low hills up to 1,000 

 feet elevation, growing on low trees where it gets but slight shade, 

 and flowering in March and April. The variety Schroederiana was 

 received with Curtis' consignment, a single plant only; it is a 

 most remarkable colour deviation from the type, and one of the 

 handsomest of Vandas ; it is now in the collection of Baron Schroeder, 

 at The Dell. 



The Yanda insignis described above should not be confounded with 

 another Yanda sometimes met Avith in cultivation under the same 

 name, which is but a colour variation of F. tricolor. 



V. Kimballiana. 



Leaves sub-cylindric, acuminate, 6 — 9 inches long, channelled down the 

 face, deep green with a purplish bronzy hue. Peduncles slender, scarcely 

 longer than the leaves, Avith a small papery sheath at each of the 

 joints, and a small, brown, acute bract at the base of the stalked 

 ovaries, 8 — 12 flowered; pedicels (with ovary) \\ inch long, obscurely 

 grooved, very pale purple. Flowers 1| — 2 inches in diameter; upper sepal 

 and petals shortly clawed, obovate-spathulate, white sometimes faintly 

 flushed with pale purple, and with light purple nerves ; lateral sepals 

 longer than the upper one, oblong, falcate, white ; lip threelobed, the 

 side lobes ovate-triangular terminating in an incurved, horn-like cirrus, 



