VANDA CATHCARTII. 
[PLATE 168. | 
Native of hot valleys in the Eastern Himalayas. 
Epiphytal. Stems terete, of scrambling habit, almost as thick as one’s little finger, 
throwing out stout roots from its lower parts. Leaves distichous, _linear-oblong, 
keeled, unequally bilobed, the lobes rounded, faleate, recurved, six to eight inches 
long, of a rather light green colour. Peduncles axillary, bearing a raceme of from 
three to six flowers, which are stout and shortly-stalked, with short broad sheathing 
bracts. Flowers nearly or quite three inches across, roundish in outline, leathery, 
remarkable for the close-set transverse bars of colour which mark the sepals an 
petals, and for their peculiar position, the dorsal sepal being erect, exactly — 
' the lip, while the petals and lateral sepals spread out to the right and left in 
parallel curving lines; sepals concave, oblong-obtuse, pale yellow, lined closely with 
transverse bands of dark crimson-brown, the lines slightly curved, so as to give the 
whole an appearance of concentric marking, the dorsal one erect, the lateral ones 
decurved, the exterior surface white; petals similar to the —_ in form, texture, 
and colour; lip somewhat shorter, three-lobed, the lateral lobes small, semicircular, 
ineurved, white, striated and spotted with crimson bars, the middle lobe larger, 
with two crimson stripes down the centre, the front portion cordate-obtuse, yel- 
lowish white, with the incurved downy margins bright yellow. Column prominent, 
green, stained with purple-red, the tip bright yellow. 
- ~Vanpa Carucartn, Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, art. Vanda, No. 17; Hooker, 
“OL, Illustrations of Himalayan Plants, t. 23; Id., Botanical Magazine, t. 5849 ; 
Mustration Horticole, t. 187; Flore des Serres, t. 1251; Jennings, Orchids, t. ll 
l Magazine, 2 ser., t. 66. 
_. Esmeratpa Carucartu, Reichenbach fil., Xenia Orchidacea, ii., t. 38; Id., in 
— Walpers'* Annales Botanices Systematice, vi., 871. 
Aracanantits Catacarri, Bentham and Hooker, Genera Plantarum, iii., 573. 
There can be no doubt that the Vanda we are now about to describe z oe 
(of the most distinct of this fine genus. It is not only distinct sat eal sr ga 
but also in its manner of growth, especially when well grown, 9% sce _ ur 
from which our drawing was taken, some time ago, in the well-known collection ° 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., who flowers it very freely. ipo apie a is 
4 well-grown specimen in the collection of G. Heriot, Esq., of i ate a a 
care of Mr. Aldous, the gardener, who exhibited it at the Royal Horticultura 
Gardens, with four spikes of its curiously showy blossoms. | 
ae Venda Cathearts ia on evergreen species, resembling Renanthera gt 
_ “ppearanee. The stems attain several feet in height, and oaseni cece ea 
in its 
