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VANDA CCERULESCENS. 
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Native of Burmah. oe, * a : ,, | 
Epiphytal. Stem one to two feet high or more, producing long stout ins ¢ | 
roots from the leaf bases. Leaves close set, distichous, linear- ligulate, truncately- 
bilobed, coriaceous, channelled, five to seven inches long, of a deep green colour, 
carinate, the keel forming an angular projection at the tip. ‘Scapes or Peduncles 
slender, distantly vaginate, with small appressed sheaths, axillary, erect, bearing a — 
ten to twenty flowered raceme longer than the leaves, Flowers neat and ve 
pleasing, pale mauve-blue ; sepals incurved, cuneate-ovate, obtuse, clawed, of a pale! 
eyish blue; petals sithilar in size, form, atid colour, twisted at the base: with the 
two lateral lobes tawny- -yellow, and adnate to the column, the middle or front lobe 
obcuneate dilated and emarginate at the apex, the margins deflexed, of a rich 
violet-blue, with a pair of keel-shaped ‘deep violet calli and a short intermediate one 
on the disk, the spur straight or Incurved, conical, tipped with green. Column 
small, blue. 
VANDA C@RULESCENS, Griffith, Notule, 352: Id., peed t 331 : Brdiey, Folia 
Orchidacea, art. Vanda, No. 19; Reichenbach Jil... in Walpers’ of ion ci Botanices 
Systematice, vi., 868; Id., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, "1869, 498; 1870, 529, fig. 97 
Hooker fil., Botanical Magazine, t. 5834 (colour faulty) ; Williams, Orchid Grower's 
Manual, ed. 5, 305. 
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The Vandas are a most noble family of Orchids, including amongst them many. 
beautiful species, such as V. suavis, V. tricolor, V. Batemanni, and others. They 
are well furnished with leaves, and make splendid yspecimens, requiring considerable 
Space in which to grow them, but they are plants of great beauty, and when not 
bloom make grand objects of attraction. No collection should be without them, 
as they flower at all times of the year. “Where a number of these Orchids are 
grown, as at Chatsworth, we have seen as many.as 193 spikes in blossom at one 
time, presenting a most glorious sight. 
The Vandas are of easy cultivation. The species which we now figure is a 
small, elegant-growing, free-blooming plant, and also very distinct in character, as 
will be seen from the plate, which gives a good representation of it. Our drawing 
was taken from a beautiful specimen growing in the splendid collection of 
C. Dorman, Esq., The Firs, Laurie Park, Sydenham, who has one of the best 
grown collections of Orchids we have seen, and one which does great credit to 
Mr. Coningsby, the gardener. 
Ve caerulescens is a compact growing species, as may be ‘seen from our 
plate. In this instance it produced a flower spike of a drooping habit fifteen inches 
