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VANDA SUA VIS (CHATSWORTH VARIETY). 



[Plate 324.] 



Mative of Java. 



Epiphytal. Stem erect, laxly branclied, and emitting a profusion of stout, white 

 fleshy roots. Leaves distichous, ligulate, sheathing at the base, recurved and pen- 

 dent, obliquely dentate at the ends, carinate beneath, leathery in texture, and 

 deep green. Peduncle axillary from the upper leaves, bearing a more or less lax, 

 drooping raceme of beautiful flowers, which are delicately fragrant, and upwards of 

 three inches in diameter ; sepals and petals nearly equal, spathulate, retrorse, con- 

 vex, undulate or lobate at the edges, the latter twisted when fully expanded, so 



that the china-white of the reverse side is exposed to view, ground colour of both 



surfaces china-white, profusely spotted and streaked with deep rich purple in front ; lip 

 convex, three-lobed, middle lobe narrow and deeply bifid, rosy purple freckled with 

 dots of deep purple and furnished with three raised lines or costee on the disc ; 

 side lobes rounded or ovate, spreading, and with the upper part of the lip intensely 

 rich violet-purple ; the auricles erect, rotundate, white. Column short and obtuse. 



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Vanda sua vis, Lindley, Gardeners^ Chronicle, 1848, p. 351; Id., Paxtons 

 Flower Garden, ii., t. 42, fig. 3 ; Id., Folia OrcTiidacea, art Vanda, No. 9 ; 

 Bota7iical Magazine, t. 5174 ; Bateman's 2nd Century Orchidaceous Plants, t. 125 ; 

 Fescatorea, t. 8 (var, media) ; Orchid Album, iv., t. 180 ; Flore des Serres, t. 

 641, fig. 3; Id., tt. 1604—5 (Hrubyana) ; L' Orchidophile,yi. t. 301, fig. 1; 

 Id., fig. 2 (flava) ; Id., fig. 3 (prsetexta) ; Botanical Magazine, t. 4432 (flava) 



Jennings' Orchids, t. 23 ; Xenia Orchidacea, i., t. 12 ; Gardeners' Chronicle, N.S., 

 xxii., 237, fig. 47 (Wingate's var.) ; Williams, Orchid-Grower's Manual, 6 ed., 

 p. 607. 



Vanda tricolor (a), Reichenhach fil., in Walper's Annales Botanices Systematica, 

 vi., 866. 



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Vanda tricolor (5), Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 4432 ; non Lindley. 

 Vanda sua vis (Chatsworth variety), supra. 



There can be little doubt that Vanda suavis will always hold a high position 

 among the Indian Orchids. We have already figured a form of this plant in our 

 fourth volume, plate 180, and that w^e consider the true type of the species — a 

 ant that was introduced some years ago by the Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 

 of Exeter, and now of Chelsea, it being one of the discoveries of their energetic 

 ■collector, Mr. William Lobb. The Chatsworth variety of V. suavis differs materially 

 in the spotting of its flowers, as will be' seen by a comparison of the plates. 

 This variety has been grown in the celebrated garden of the Duke of Devonshire, 

 at Chatsworth, for many years past, and we have seen very fine large specimens 



