VANDA TRICOLOR PLANILABRIS. 
[Puate 87. | 
Native of Java. 
VANDA ‘TRICOLOR PLANILABRIS, Lindley, Paston’s Flower Garden, ii., t. 42, ™ 
note; Id. Folia Orchidacea, art. Vanda, No. 10. 
This species is one of the most beautiful of the Vandas, and comprises many 
varieties which differ much both in form and colour—sufficiently so, we think, to justify 
the adoption of distinctive names; but the botanists tell us that we must them 
a varieties of Vanda tricolor, and distinguish them from each other ” oe bey 
may. That which we are now about to figure and describe, 18 very distinct in ; * 
form of its flowers, as well as in colour, from the typical V. ent es 
at Plate 77. The plant from which our drawing was taken is a ig a Oa oe 
in the collection of J oseph Broome, Esq., Woodlawn, Didsbury, oh ; ) pe ine 
ay only a great lover of plants, but also one who does much 10F | 
wivancement of the interests of horticulture. : ‘hs # is 
Vanda tricolor planilabris is a plant having a stately habrt : apes a of 
furnished with dark green foliage, and produces its flower-spikes gt © is yu 
the plant, from the axils of the two-ranked leaves, at different - a ile ae 
usually bearing from seven to ten flowers on a spike. : The a colour, margined 
Yellow, thickly marked with rich brown spots ; - continues for at least 
e with purplish mauve, and striped with chocolate-brown. 
‘ix weeks in perfection. 
