VAN DA. 



101 



slightly fiddle shaped, obscurely mucronate at the truncate tip ; disk 



tumid with 5 — 7 parallel grooves, margins reflexed ; claw with a 



prominent callus." — Botanical Magazine. 



Vanda limbata, Blume, Rumphia, IV. p. 49, sub. V. furva (1848). Lindl. Fol. 

 Orch. Vanda No. 13. Bot. Mag. t. 6173. Warner's Sel. Orch. III. t. 9. 



A native of Java, where it was detected by Dr. Blume prior to 



1848, the date of the publication of Biimphia. It was introduced 



to British gardens by the late Mr. B, S. Williams, of Holloway, 



notj however, from Java, but from Paris where he had acquired the 



plants figured in the Botanical Magazine and Warner's Select 



Orchidaceous Plants some time previous to their flowering in the 



summer of 1874. It is so seldom seen in cultivation that it may be 



assumed to be a rare species in its native island, 



V. Parishii. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, 6 — 9 inches long, 2\ — 3 inches broad, sessile 

 or sheathing at the base, unequally bi-lobed or emarginate at the apex. 

 Peduncles stoutish, sub-erect, longer than the leaves, racemose along the 

 distal half, 7 — 10 or more flowered. Flowers fleshy, 2 inches in 

 diameter ; pedicels stoutish, slightly twisted, with a broad subulate bract 

 at their base ; sepals broadly oval-oblong, keeled behind, greenish yellow 

 spotted with red-brown ; petals sub-orbicular, broader than the sepals 

 but coloured like themj lip witli two rounded auricles at the base, 

 and produced behind into a short gibbous spur; blade sub-rhomboidal 

 with a raised median Kne and a conic protuberance at its base, magenta- 

 purple witli pale margin. Column very short and thick, white. 



Vanda Parishii, Rchb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 138 (1867). Id. in Gard. Chron. 1870, 

 p. 890. Williams' Orch. Alb. I. t. 15. Hook. f. FJ. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 51. 



var.— Marriottiana. 



As compared with the type the racemes are fewer flowered, the 



flowers somewhat smaller but more symmetrical in outline, and with 



proportionately broader sepals and petals that are bronzy red toned with 



brown, passing into rose-purple towards the base, white at the very 



base ; the basal auricles of the lip white streaked with rose-purple, the 



blade magenta-purple. 



V. Parishii Marriottiana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIII. (1880), p. 743. Id. XV. 

 (1881), p. 726. Williams' Orch. Alb. II. t. 61. N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. XIX. 

 (1883), p. 307 (purpurea). 



The typical Vanda Parishii was discovered in Moulmein in 1862 

 by the Rev. C. S. Parish and shortly afterwards lost ; it was re- 

 discovered in 1870 and imported by Messrs. Low and Co., but it 

 is still comparatively rare in British collections. The variety, which 

 is greatly preferred by amateurs, although structurally identical, is a 



