PES SCD XC: 
VANDA SPATHULATA sprenc. 
VANDA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 47. 
Vanda spathulata. Foliis ovato-oblongis oblique rea racemis erectis multifloris foliis et caule multo 
longioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis planis, labelli hypochilio antice bicalloso, epichilio rhomboideo apice 
incurvo medio cristato, ovario hexagonoptero. 
Species pulcherrima. Folia et racemi guttulis sanguineis notati. Biores aurei, immaculati, hypochitio intus albo. 
Vanda spathulata SPRENG. Syst., 3, 719. — LINDL. Orchid. Pl, Vand, 
Ponnampon Maravara SCHEEDE, 12, t. 3. 
Efidendrum spathulatum Linn., Syst. Pl., 1348, 
Limodorum spathulatum WiLuD., Sp., 4, 125. 
Aerides maculatum SmiTH! in Rees. Suppl. 
Hab. in Mysore. Buchanan, Wight (3 sp. comm. cel. Wight). 
Itough known to science over fifty years, this beautiful golden yellow 
_Vanda, which seems to inhabit a wide range, extending along the 
S| Mysore Hills to Ceylon, has never been introduced to gardens, other 
sah as an occasional plant, and therefore Orchid growers may be said to 
have never had.a chance of growing it to that perfection, which would admit 
of its producing its wealth of bloom, which always strikes those who see it in 
its native habitat with boundless admiration. Information from those who have 
seen it growing in wild points to the fact, that the plant should have abundance 
of light when cultivated, for naturally it grows on trees, above which the 
tips of the plants appear, and with them their gorgeous blooms, wich are often 
mistaken for the flowers of the tree on which it is growing. The growth of 
the tree keeps pace with the growth of the Vanda, and thus it always occupies 
the same position. Altough well-known to searchers among Orchid literature, 
it is yet a plant practically new to gardens, and in them has yet to become 
the favourite it merits to be. | 
James O’Brien. 
-Quoique connu des botanistes depuis plus de cinquante ans, ce beau Vanda 
jaune d’or, qui parait d’ailleurs avoir une aire de dispersion étendue, allant 
jusqu’d Ceylan et aux collines de Mysore, n’a jamais été, 4 proprement parler, 
introduit dans les cultures. Il n’y a fait son apparition qu’accidentellement, et 
Yon peut dire que les cultivateurs d’Orchidées n’ont jamais eu l'occasion de 
Vobtenir dans l'état de splendeur ot il se révélerait, chargé de cette profusion 
de fleurs qui produit toujours tant d’impression et eadoaaice sur les personnes 
qui le voient a l’état de nature dans sa patrie. 
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