VANDA TRICOLOR. 
[PLate 77.] 
Native of Java. 
Epiphytal. Stems tall, erect, leafy, producing stout aérial roots. Leaves distichous, 
broadly lorate, channelled, longer than the inflorescence, overlapping at the base, obliquely 
bilobed and somewhat erose at the apex. Racemes few-flowered. Flowaks handsome, sweet- 
scented, roundish in outline, but longer than broad, their depth being about two and 
& half inches, beautifully spotted, the pedicels white, striately furrowed ; sepals oblong- 
obovate obtuse, the edges rolled back, unguiculate, fully an inch long, coriaceous, pale 
creamy yellow, with a narrow marginal band of delicate rosy pink, spotted throughout, 
except at the edge, with deep rich brownish-red, white at the back; petals similar in 
size, form, and colouring, but with the pink edge less distinct, and the spots somewhat 
fewer in number, and inclined to coalesce into stripes; lip of about equal length, three- 
lobed, with a pair of erect rounded colourless lobes, standing one on each side the short 
blunt compressed white spur, and a convex cuneate deeply emarginate middle-lobe, which 
has three ridges extending from the disk to the front, two of which run out quite 
to the apex, and two white ridges at the mouth of the spur behind the disk; the 
colour is a bright rosy magenta, paler at the tip, the disk marked with about five white 
lines, of which the three central ones are longest. Colwmn free, short, thick, white. 
VANDA TRICOLOR, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1847, in note under t. 59; Id. 
Pazton’s Flower Garden, ii., t. 42; Id. Folia Orchidacea, art. Vanda, No. 10 ; Pescatorea, 
t. 42; Warner, Select Orchidaceous Plants, ii., 39 (var. Warnerii); Van Houtte, Flore 
des Serres, t. 641 ; Lemaire, Jardin Flewriste, t. 136. 
VANDA SUAVEOLENS, Blume, Rumphia, iv., 49. 
It 1s with great pleasure that we here introduce to our readers a genus of 
Orchids, which has been grown and exhibited for many years, and of which we have in 
former days seen some wonderful examples produced. What a contrast with those we eee 
with » the present time, when few really fine specimens are brought out by exhibitors ! 
What is there more splendid or majestic than a Vanda when grown into a large specimen * 
® Vandas, indeed, possess good qualities that few other Orchids can boast of, for they 
Poe Stately in their growth, they have beautiful evergreen foliage, they. are of graceful 
a tte their showy flowers produced in fine spikes on either side of 
Fo aaly fragrant, and continue in perfection for six weeks or more. 
We lant that has but one stem will produce three or four spikes of flower, 
low... Yeat. We have had plants only twelve inches in height — 
wer spikes, and have bloomed many in an equally dwarf state, as we are gl 
the plant 
Sometimes 
and bloom 
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