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VANDAS 533 
A. LAWRENCE (Lady Lawrence’s). Leaves a foot long, and slender. 
Flowers large, wax-like, white, changing to yellowish, tipped with rosy 
purple; lip rosy purple in centre; spur conical, green; racemes 2 feet 
long, about thirty-flowered. May be called a glorified A. odoratum. 
Introduced from the Philippines, 1882. Syn. A. sanderianum. Plate 245. 
A. MULTIFLORUM (many-flowered). Flowers white, spotted with 
violet, and rose-tinted towards edges; lip deep violet, with a whitish 
central bar; in long, dense, drooping racemes. Introduced from 
Moulmein, 1868. Also known as A. affine, A. Veitchii, A. godefroyanumn, 
A. Lobbii. 
A. opORATUM (fragrant). Leaves oblique, with a hard point at the 
apex. Flowers very fragrant, white and creamy, tipped with pink; lip 
hood-shaped; spur conical, incurved; in many-flowered pendulous 
racemes. Introduced from India, 1800. 
A. QUINQUEVULNERA (five wounds), A. SUAVISSIMUM (very sweet), 
and A. VIRENS (green). ‘These three, which are very similar to 
A. odoratum, are other popular garden Orchids of easy culture. 
Aérides require tropical conditions such as are afforded 
by a stove, the summer temperature in which ranges from 
70° to 75°, and the winter temperature from 60° to 65°, with plenty of 
fresh air and a liberal allowance of sunlight. They require plenty of 
atmospheric moisture from March to October, and a fairly dry air in 
winter. Small individuals may be grown in baskets, but large plants 
thrive best in pots. These must be three-fourths filled with large pieces 
of clean, broken crocks and charcoal, and the remainder with living 
sphagnum pressed firmly about the roots, so that they may absorb 
moisture from it to supplement that obtained from the air by the upper 
roots. From spring till autumn—that is, during the period of growth, 
—water must be given freely. 
Description of Aérides Lawrencee. Fig. 1, entire plant, greatly 
Plate 245. reduced; 2, upper part of column; 3, portion of raceme, 
the flowers one-third less than natural size; 4, the pollinia. 
Cultivation. 
VANDAS 
Natural Order OncHIDEZ. Genus Vanda 
VANDA (the Hindoo name for one of the species). A genus of about 
thirty species of epiphytal Orchids of similar habit to Aérides, but 
differing in the structure of the flowers. The column is short, thick, 
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