VANDA. 



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No. 10), " flowers wholly yellow except a faint violet stain on the lip " ; * 

 formosa, sepals and petals bright yellow uniformly covered with oblong 

 red-brown spots arranged in rows that are frequently confluent ; Mr. 

 Dodgson's, sepals and petals light amber-yellow more sparingly spotted 

 with red-brown than in most of the sub-varieties, lip light magenta- 

 purple ; Mr. GotfschaM-e's (Williams' Manual, p. 608, sub. F. suavis), 

 sepals and petals white densely spotted with red- purple, lip rose purple 

 with white anterior margin; insignis (Warner's Sel. Orcli. I. t. 7), sepals 

 and petals bright yellow regularly spotted with red-brown, lip rose- 

 carmine imssing into white at the margin ; Dr. Patterson's {The Garden, 



Vanda tricolor, var. suavis. 



XXIII. (1883), t. 375), sepals and petals cream colour much spotted 

 with dark chestnut-brown, the spots confluent at the margin, lip magenta- 

 purple with five slightly divergent white lines at the base, of which 

 the middle one is the longest; i^rchtexta (Godefroy's Orchidoph/le, 

 1886, p. 301), sepals and petals light sulphur-yellow bordered with pale 

 rose, and with broad oblong spots scattered over the yellow area. 

 Vanda tricolor was introduced by us from Java in 1846, through 



* This form is unknown to us ; that usually cultivated as Fanda tricolor flava has the 

 perianth segments sparingly spotted with red-brown as represented in the Botanical Magazine, 

 t. 4432. 



