100 



VAN DA. 



var.— Boxalli. 



Leaves somewhat longer and narrower than in the type. Racemes 



longer and bearing more flowers. Flowers more brightly coloured ; sepals 



and petals cream-white,* the superior half of the broader lateral sepals 



also cream-white, the inferior half red-brown, the basal auricles of the 



lip white spotted with light purple, the blade rose-purple. 



V. lamellata Boxalli, Rchb. in GarJ. Chron. XIII. (1880), p. 743. Id. XV. (1881), 

 p. 87, icon. xvl. The Garden, XIX. (1881), t. 287. Williams' Orch. Alb. VIIL 

 t. 338 



Vanda lamellata Boxalli. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



The typical Vanda lamellata was first sent to Messrs. Loddiges 

 from the Philippine Islands by Cuming in 1838, but it is now 

 very rarely seen in the orchid collections of this country. The 

 variety, which has flowers of brighter and more showy colours, was 

 introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. in 1879, through the collector 

 whose name it bears. Both the type and its variety grow on trees 

 in the hot damp valleys in the neighbourhood of Manila. 



V. limbata. 



" Leaves 6 — 8 inches long and f — 1^ inch broad. Racemes as long 

 as the leaves, 10 — 12 flowered. Flowers 2 inches in diameter; sepals 

 and petals nearly equal and similar, spathulate, bright cinnamon colour 

 within and tesselated, with a golden border, pale and sufi'used with 

 lilac externally ; lip three-lobed, pale lilac, produced behind into a short, 

 conic, obtuse spur; lateral lobes small, rounded; mid lobe quadrate, 



* Light yellow in the plate in Williams' Orchid Album, loc. cit. 



