VANDA COERULEA. 
LORD ROTHSCHILD’S VARIETY. 
[Pare 517.] 
Native of the Khasya Hills, Northern India. 
Epiphytal. Stem erect, three feet or more in height, producing at intervals 
numerous long, stout, flexuous roots near the bases of the leaves. Leaves distichous, 
ligulate, channelled above, leathery in texture, and dull green in colour, from six 
to eight inches in length, unequally truncate at the apex, with a concave notch 
and acute lateral lobes. Scape erect, much longer than the leaves, racemes many- 
flowered (ten to twenty). Flowers three to five inches across; sepals and petals 
nearly equal (the lateral sepals being somewhat the largest), membranous, flat, 
obovate, blunt, shortly clawed, of a rick pale blue, varying in intensity in some 
parts, the petals of a much deeper shade, the whole flower tessellated with rich 
deep ultramarine blue; Zip small, deep violet-blue, linear-oblong, obtuse at the apex, 
with two diverging lobes, bearing three lamellae or plates on the disc, and 
furnished with two triangular acuminate lobes at the base; spur short, blunt and 
curved, smooth within. 
VANDA COERULEA, Griffith’s Itinerary, p. 88. Botanical Register, sub. t. 30. 
Pazxton’s Flower Garden, i., t. 36. Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, Art. Vanda, No. 8. 
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, 1851, vi. p. 8 (with woodcut). 
Warner's Select Orchidaceous Plants, i, t. 18.  Pescatorea, t. 29. Reichenbach, 
Xenia Orchidacea, L, t. 5. JL’ Illustration Horticole, 1860, t. 246. Flore des Serres, 
t. 609. Moore’s Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants, Vanda, t. 2. EP Horticulture 
Frangaise, 1862, t. 1. Jennings Orchids, t. 34. Lemaire, Le Jardin Fleuriste, 
t. 102. Flore des Serres, vi., t. 609. De Puydt, Les Orchidées, t. 45.  Lindenia, 
tv.» t. 160.  Reichenbachia, ii., t. 57. L’Orchidophile, 1890, p. 369. _ Gartenflora, 
1890, t. 1332. Revue d Horticulture Belge, 1891, p. 165, t. 21. Veitch’s Manual 
of Orchidaceous Plants, Part vii., p. 91. Linden, Les Orchidées Exotiques, p. 977. 
Hooker fil. Flora of British India, vi., p. 51. Williams’ Orchid Album, \i., t. 
282. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, p. 740. 
VANDA COERULEA, Lorp RorHscHILD’s VARIETY, supra. 
This is without doubt the finest dark-coloured variety of this, the Queen of the 
East Indian Orchids, that we have yet had the good fortune to see; it was kindly 
communicated to us by Mr. Hill, gardener to Lord Rothschild, Tring Park. The 
Sepals and petals are much broader than in the type, and of greater substance, the 
stound colour being cobalt-blue, distinctly and beautifully reticulated with deep 
ultramarine-blue; the lip is also of the same deep colour. 
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