VANDA ROXBURGHII. 
[Puate 59.] 
Native of India. 
Epiphytal. Stems dwarf, stout, erect, leafy, with aérial roots from the lower 
portion. Leaves two-ranked, evergreen, leathery, light green, ligulate, channelled, 
obliquely tridentate at the apex. Flowers six to twelve, in erect axillary racemes 
longer than the leaves, tessellated;, sepals and tals oblong-obovate, obtuse, 
undulated, white on the exterior surface, the inner side pale green, marked with 
olive-brown in chequered lines; lip three-lobed, projected backwards near the middle 
to form a short pinkish spur; the lateral lobes lanceolate, sharp-pointed, about as 
long as the column, white; the middle lobe convex, with the sides inflected beneath, 
ovate, emarginate and very obtuse, channelled, violet-purple, deeper towards the apex. 
Column short, thick, obtuse, white. 
Vanpa Roxsurcuu, F. Brown, in Botanical Register, t. 506; Lindley, Genera 
and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 215; Id. Folia Orchidacea, art. Vanda, No. 4; 
Id. Pazxton’s Flower Garden, t. 42, fig. 2; Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 2245 ; 
Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, ii., t. 11; Wight, leones Plantarum Indie Orientalis, 
ul, t. 916; Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 5. ed., 307. 
VANDA TESSELLATA, Loddiges; Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, vii., 265 (var. with 
rosy lip). 3 
VANDA TESSELLOIDES, Leichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, 
v1, 864. 
CYMBIDIUM TESSELLOIDES, [toxburgh, Flora Indica, iii., 463. 
We now bring before our readers a plant that few of the present generation of 
Orchid growers have seen, but one which we think they all should possess, as it 
requires but little space, and produces its flower-spikes on very small specimens. 
Our plate will give some idea of this, as it represents a full-sized plant, with a 
spike of very charmingly coloured flowers. There are several varieties of this species 
known, among which we consider the one which our plate pourtrays to be an 
excellent form. . The plant represented is in the collection of W. Lee, Esq., 
Downside, Leatherhead. We are delighted to know that Mr. Lee is taking up the 
cultivation of the Vandas (of which he possesses a splendid collection), and intends 
devoting a centre table in one of his houses to their accommodation. There are 
no Orchids that flower so freely when they are well grown; indeed, Mr. Lee 
blooms many plants of Vanda tricolor while quite small. When the specimens 
attain a large size they flower two or three times a year, lasting each time some 
six weeks, or even more, in perfection. They are extremely fragrant, imparting a 
