VANDA DENISONIANA HEBRAICA. 
(PLaTeE 248.] 
Native of Burmah. 
Epiphytal. Stems erect, free-growing, furnished with rigid dark green leaves 
broader and ae er as yore of Vanda Benson, which it much resembles in_ its 
mode of growt Leaves distichous, lorate, channelled, recurved, deeply and 
obliquely two-lobed at the apex, the lobes sharply pointed, Peduncle axillary, 
stout, ascending, pale green, terminating in a raceme of several prettily marked 
blossoms. lowers medium-sized, with the segments spreading, thick and fleshy in 
texture; sepals oblong-spathulate obtuse, wavy, emarginate, tapered into a 
claw ; petals spathulate, somewhat wavy, with the claw narrower than in the sepals— 
both sepals and petals of a pale ochre yellow, paler and unspotted behind, marked 
on the inner surface with numerous short transverse lines between the faint 
longitudinal veins, giving it a somewhat tessellated character; lip pandurate, the 
apex two-lobed, the lobes divaricate like the tip of a blackeock’s tail, pale sulphur- 
yellow, still paler in the roundish broad lateral lobes, in the centre between which 
is an orange-yellow crest, the ovary and pedicels pale straw yellow; spur orange 
inside according to Reichenbach, who says the anterior part of the blade of the 
lip is olive-green. © 
VanpA Denisontana HEBRAICA, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, ».s., 
xxiv., 39; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 601. 
The Vandas, without doubt, rank among the most useful as well as the most 
noble and beautiful of Orchids. They, indeed, always present a feature of beauty 
whether in flower or not, as their foliage is so displayed as to give them a bold 
and striking appearance. Some of these plants, moreover, may be found in bloom 
all the year round, especially such as Vanda tricolor and its varieties, of which 
there are many, varying very much in colour, as there are also of V. suavis. 
These are all free-flowering plants, and when strong and vigorous they produce 
flower spikes two or three times in a year, and often last six weeks in beauty at 
one time, so that there are comparatively but short periods when they are not in 
bloom. They have a delicious fragrance, sufficiently powerful to scent the whole 
house in which they are kept. 
Several new Vandas, such as V. Sanderiana, have made their appearance during 
the past few years; and now we have the one we are here figuring, which is very 
distinct in colour from any we have seen, and is deliciously fragrant. We last 
year bloomed the plant from which our drawing was taken, and since then it has 
passed into the collection of the Duc de Massa, in France. The Duke was pleased 
to be able to procure this rare plant, as he is forming a grand collection of 
