VANDA PARISHITI. 
[PLaTEe 15. ] 
Native of Moulmein. 
Epiphytal. Plant evergreen, dwarf. Stem a span high, stout-growing, densely 
leafy. Leaves distichous, broadly ligulate-obtuse, with an unequal bilobed apex, very 
stout and fleshy in texture. Scape stiff, erect, bearing a spike of several show 
blossoms. Flowers large, distinct in character, prettily spotted; sepals and petals 
' ceuneate-oblong, acute, somewhat undulated, of a greenish-yellow colour, decorated with 
numerous round reddish-brown spots, white inside at the base; lip furnished with 
linear-ligulate auricles at the base, and produced into a short gibbous spur, white, with 
a pair of orange-coloured stripes, the larger anterior part violaceous, rhomboid, gibbous 
below the apex, with a keel along the median line, and a violet-coloured conical 
callus at the base. Column white, the caudicle ligulate, the glandule triangular. 
Vanpa Parisutt, Reichenbach" fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1870, 890. 
This glorious thing, as Professor Reichenbach calls it, was first discovered by 
the Rev. C. Parish in 1862, and then lost sight of, but was rediscovered in 1870, 
from which discovery, we presume, the first plants were obtained by Mr. 8. Low, of 
the Clapton Nursery; since then we have received living plants of it on several 
occasions, and the plant now figured was from one of these importations. It is a 
small and distinct growing Vanda, and is well worthy of a place in every collection 
on account of its compact habit of growth, which resembles that of a Phalaenopsis. 
The Vandas are for the most part large growers, but, as will be seen from the 
accompanying figure, Vanda Parishii is an exception to the general rule, Our 
plate was prepared from a plant which bloomed in the collection of the Right Hon. 
J. Chamberlain, M.P., of Birmingham—a gentleman who is making a grand collection 
of Orchids, and is a great admirer of them. The plant above referred to was a 
well-grown specimen, bearing a good spike of flowers. 
The leaves are about eight inches in length by four inches in breadth, and of 
a lively green colour; and the flower-spike reaches from ten to twelve inches in 
length, the flowers being as large as those of Vanda gigantea and V. lissochiloides. 
The sepals and petals are greenish-yellow, freely spotted with reddish-brown bs the 
base of the lip, which is keeled, is white, the front lobe violet-mauve, faintly 
margined with white. Altogether it is a very distinct species, and is very strongly 
scented, with a peculiar odour; it lasts for several weeks in bloom. Zz 
Vanda Parishii requires about the same treatment as other Vandas, and should 
be grown in the East India-house, in sphagnum moss, with plenty of drainage. It 
