VANDA TERES CANDIDA. 
[PuatTe 409. ] 
Native of Northern India and Burmah. 
Epiphytal. Stems scandent, emitting a large quantity of roots, and bearing 
terete leaves, which are from three to four inches long, and deep green. Raceme 
ascending, bearing usually a pair of flowers, although at times one only is produced; 
they measure some four inches across. Dorsal sepal erect, much smaller than the 
lateral ones ; petals sub-rotund, much larger than the sepals, slightly undulated, all 
pure white; lip three-lobed, lateral lobes large, rolled over the column, forming a 
ood, white on the exterior, stained with pale yellow on the inner sides; anterior 
lobe narrow at the base, dilated and emarginate at the apex, white, faintly flushed 
with rose on the disc. Spur infundibuliform. 
VANDA TERES CANDIDA, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.s., iv., p- 225; 
Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6 ed., Pp 
VANDA TERES ALBA, Hort, 
This is the purest white form of Vanda teres that has yet come under our 
notice ; for several years we have been aware of the existence of an albino form 
of this species, and we have waited anxiously to see it. Various plants have from 
time to time been pointed out to us as being the veritable plant, but upon 
examination, they have proved to be but pale forms of the type. More 
especially was this the case when, after making a long journey, we were much 
annoyed to find only a specimen in which the sepals and petals were white more or 
less flushed with rose, whilst the lip was almost as much coloured as the typical 
plant. The first white form of this species was flowered by Mr. W. Whittaker, 
gardener to Lord Crewe, at Crewe Hall, Cheshire, and from this plant the variety 
was named by Professor Reichenbach. The specimen here illustrated was flowered in 
the gardens of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire, 
under the care of Mr. Whillans, and we must congratulate him upon being the first 
to show us this chaste and _ beautiful variety. 
Vanda teres candida resembles the typical plant in its habit of growth and 
general appearance, but upon closer examination it will be found to be more 
slender in its stems, and the terete leaves also are more acute, whilst in their 
colour the leaves are paler in the shade of green. The raceme on this plant 
bore only a single flower, but should it eventually produce a many - flowered 
raceme as in the variety known as V. teres Andersonii, it will then prove itself 
to be a most effective and charming variety, as, in addition to the size of 
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