VANDA TERES ANDERSONIL. 
[PLaTE 475.] 
Native of North Eastern India, &c. 
VANDA TERES ANDERSONII, Williams, Warner’s Select Orchidaceous Plants, iii., 
t. 2. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6th ed., p. 609. 
This distinct and beautiful old species flowered for the first time in this 
country in the gardens of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Syon House, 
Isleworth, in the year 1836. At that time these gardens were celebrated for their 
great and valuable collection of tropical fruits and flowers, which has, however, since met 
with sundry vicissitudes; they are now in charge of Mr. Wythes, who is apparently 
striving to again restore their ancient prowess. From the Syon House collection, 
staged at the Royal Horticultural Society’s exhibition, held at the Temple Gardens 
in May of the present year, a plant of Vanda teres was shown, having eight flowers 
on one raceme, which we think is a very unusual number. The plant appears to be 
yielding to the more rational treatment of growers, by flowering profusely and well, 
as witness the specimens that were staged by Mr. Ballantine, from Baron Sir J. H. 
Schréder’s collection, and by Mr. White, from the garden of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
at the last Temple Show. Generally speaking, this variety is more free in flowering 
than the typical plant. The finest example that we know of, was grown by 
J. Broome, Esq., when he was living at Wood Lawn, Didsbury; it had no less than 
250 flowers, all open at the same time. The greatest number of flowers upon one 
raceme, however, that we remember to have seen upon this specimen was six in 
number. Neither V. ¢eres nor its varieties can lay claim to any beauty when not 
in flower, but when its blooms are expanded, their large size and soft delicate 
colour all tend to make it one of the most beautiful plants that we know. The 
specimen here figured by our artist, Mr. J. N. Fitch, was a very small one that 
