106 VANDA. 



V. tricolor. 



Leaves curved, 15 — 18 inches long, imbricating at base, unequally two- 

 lobed at apex. Eacem.es stoutish, ascending or spreading, shorter than 

 the leaves, 7 — 10 or more flowered. Flowers fragrant, fleshy, 2| — 3 

 inches in diameter, on angulate, twisted pedicels 2 — 3 inches long, white 

 usually stained with pale purple at the base ; sepals and petals similar, 

 varying in different plants from obovate-oblong to orbicular-obovate, 

 narrowed into a short claw at the base, undulate, leathery, more or less 

 densely spotted with bright red-brown on a light yellow ground, the 

 spots arranged in longitudinal rows and often confluent, sometimes 

 covering the greater part of the surface, white behind ; lip three-lobed, 

 the side lobe sub-quadrate, curved inwards, white ; the intermediate 

 lobe sub-panduriform, deeply emarginate, convex above, with three ridges, 

 two of which extend to the apical margin, whitish at the base with some 

 red-brown streaks, the remaining area bright magenta-purple ; spur short, 

 compressed, white. Column short, much swollen laterally at the base. 

 Vanda tricolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, sub. t. 59. Id. hi Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. 



t. 42. Id. Fol. Orch. Vanda, No. 10. Bot. Mag. t. 4432 (1849). Van Houtte's Fl. 



des Sevres, Fl. t. 641 (1850). Linden's Peso. t. 42. Warner's Sel. Orch. II. t. 39. 



De Puydt, Les Orch. t. 48. Williams' Orch. Alb. II. t. 77. V. suaveolens, Blume, 



Rumph IV. p. 49 (1848). 



var. — planilabris. 



The front lobe of the labellum less convex with the ridges almost 

 obsolete, the notch in the apical margin shallower, usually magenta- 

 purple with the apical part much paler, but sometimes light lose- 

 purple. 



V. tricolor planilabris, Lindl. Fol. Orcli. Vanda, No. 10. Id. in Paxt. Fl. Garden, 

 II. sub. t. 42. AVmiams' Orch. Alb. II. t. 87. 



var.— suavis. 



Kacemes longer and bearing more flowers ; sepals and petals white 



with fewer spots that are red-purple ; the middle lobe of the lip a 



little narrower with the margins more reflexed,* the basal half deep 



purple, the apical half paler. 



V. tricolor suavis, supra. V. tricolor, Rcbb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 866 (1864). V. 

 suavis, LindL in Gard. Cbron. 1848, p. 351. Id. Fol. Orch. Vanda, No. 9. Kchb. 

 Xen. Orch. I. p. 26, t. 12 (1854). Linden's Pesr. t. 8. JBot. Mag. t. 5174. Van 

 Hontte's Fl. des Sevres, t. 1604—5 (1862). De Puydt, Les Orch. t. 47. Jennings' 

 Orch. t. 23. Gard. Chron. XXII. (1884), p. 237. icon. xyl. Williams' Orch. Alb. 

 IV. t. 180. Godefroy's Orchidophile, 1886, p. 301. 



S\lb-va,VS. — Chatsivorth (Williams' Orch. Alb. VII. t. 324, sub. V. suavis), 

 sepals and petals white densely and evenly spotted with red-purple, 

 basal half of lip deep purple, apical half much paler ; Dalkeith, sepals 

 and petals pale yellow densely spotted with red-purple in longitudinal 

 rows with occasional interruptions and irregularities, lip bright red- 

 purple with some white streaks at the base ; flava (Fol. Orch. Vanda, sub. 



* This character is not constant. 



