VANDA INSIGNIS. 
[Puate 172.] 
Native of the Mountains of Timor. 
Epiphytal. Stems suberect, leafy, throwing out thick fleshy roots below. Leaves 
distichous, evergreen, linear, recurved, channelled, bifid and obliquely incised and 
toothed at the apex, of a deep green colour, rigid and leathery in texture. Peduneles 
axillary, erect, green, bearing a short five to seven-flowered raceme. Flowers two 
to two and a half inches across, the pedicels white or whitish; sepals obovate 
spathulate obtuse, bright ochraceous golden or Indian yellow, nearly covered with 
dark brownish crimson spots and blotches, confluent towards the tips, yellowish 
externally ; petals similar in form, colour, and marking; lip somewhat fiddle-shaped, 
the basal part subovate, white, with two short auricles or lateral lobes, and two 
low _Nidges on its disk, above narrowed, and then suddenly expanding into a 
semilunar concave limb, one inch broad, of a_ beautiful deep rose colour, the 
mirgin rounded and entire; spur compressed, obtusely conical, recurved, its mouth 
furnished with two rounded white lobes. Column short, terete, pinkish white, bent 
over the mouth of the spur. 
VanpA INSIGNIS, Blume, Rumphia, iv., 49, t. 192, fig. 2, and t. 197 b; Lindley, 
Folia Orchidacea, art, Vanda, No. 7; Id., Paaton’s Flower Garden, ii., woodcut 
under t, 42, 
We are pleased to be able to figure this beautiful and distinct Vanda, which 
has been very rare for many years. We are glad, however, to find that some good 
“Portations have been received within the last few years, and this will bring it within 
© Teach of all who are fond of these plants. This species does not make such fine 
“pecimens as V, suavis and V. tricolor, but is very compact-growing, and takes 
ond years to grow into a specimen. It has, however, its good qualities, it 
ts mi small state, and takes up comparatively little room. For the a 
_. Teptesented we are indebted to E. Wright, Esq., Gravelly Hill, Shepherds 
"een, Birmingham, who has flowered it in great perfection. Mr. Hodges, the 
gardener, has been growing Orchids for many years at this place, and has reared 
Some very fine specimens, 
Pa ™ 'Wo ranks, and growing about ten inches in length. The flower-spikes 
with d from the axils of the leaves, and are also about ten inches in length, erect, 
mm S¥etage of six flowere in a raceme; the sepals and petals are tawny yellow, 
