VANDA SUAVIS. 
[PLaTe 180. | 
Native of Java. 
~ leaves, the ends of which are directed downwards. Leaves lorate, flaccid, recurved, 
uely dentate at the apex, leathery in texture. Peduneles issuing from the 
* three-lobed, the middle lobe white, narrow, deeply bifid, the disk with three ribs 
_ %F Coste, the lateral lobes ovate acute, spreading, and with the central part a rich 
" ey ole, the auricles erect, rounded, white. | Column sharp, thick, white 
‘ VaNDa SuAVIS, Landley, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1848, 351; Id., Paxton’s Flower 
«Garden, ii, +. 42, fig. 3; td., Folia Orchidacea, art. Vanda, No. 9; Pescatorea, 
ft 8 (var, media) ; Xenia Orchidacea, i., t. 12. . 
; “8 ae TRICOLOR (A), Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, 
Bae Ang 6. 
The Vanda which we are about to describe is well known to almost vA? opm 
who has had anything to do with Orchids, and we have no doubt that it will at 
EO be acknowledged that Vanda suavis is one of the best of its class, making a noble 
“ecimen plant when well grown. It is one of the freest growing of the species, 
and also one of the most free to produce flowers, its numerous flower-spikes being 
tmusually well filled, 2 
There are a few new species of this genus recently introduced, some of which we 
have figured, as, for example, Vanda Sanderiana (see Vol. iil, Pl 124), which is a 
- lendid. plant and very distinct in its blossoms; but V. swavis has an advantage 
P that species in its free habit of growth, as well as in its free blooming 
_ Witics, making noble specimens, and often producing its flower scapes three scomenae 
® year when it attains the size for blooming. If well cultivated it na ” 
; Hower when small— about eighteen inches to two feet high ’ and when three or iour 
eS high, if strongly grown, the stems will often produce four spikes. If the 4 uns 
meets are allowed to pee as many as six or seven stems may Po er nenes on 
