2.8, 
4t 
4a. 
Wal 
ev 
PEs CCCEVE 
VANDA INSIGNIS sume. 
THE REMARKABLE VANDA. 
VANDA. Sepala subaequalia, libera, patentissima, basi saepe angustata v. fere unguiculata. Petala sepalis 
similia, Labellum basi columnae affixum, continuum, patens, basi saccatum v. obtuse calcaratum; lobi laterales ad 
latera sacci erecti, rotundati v. ad auriculas reducti, medius patens, latus v. oblongus; discus laevis v. varie callosus 
v. lamellatus. Columna brevis, crassa, exalata, apoda; clinandrium truncatum v. prominens. Anthera terminalis, 
opercularis, incumbens, convexa v. semiglobosa, bilocularis; pollinia 4, cerea, late ovata, per paria in loculis contigua 
v. concreta, inappendiculata, anthera dehiscente stipiti plano latiusculo affixa, glandula crassiuscula v. plana. Capsula 
oblonga, v. longiuscula, erecta v. patens, crassiuscula, erostris, costis prominentibus. 
Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus foliatis non pseudobulbosis. Folia disticha, patentia, coriacea v. subcarnosa, apice 
Saepe emarginata v. breviter biloba, plana y. teretia. Pedunculi laterales, racemo simplici laxo. Flores speciosi v. 
rarius mediocres, breviter pedicellati. Bracteae breves, Capsulae saepe longiuscule pedicellatae. 
Species circa 40, Indiae orientalis et Archipelagi Malayani incolae, quarum una etiam in Australia tropica 
invenitur. 
Vanda R. Br. in Bot. Reg., VI (1820), t. 506. — BENTH. F. Gen. Plant., II, p. 578. 
Vanda insignis, Folia rigida, ligulata, apice oblique abscissa et dentata, canaliculata. Racemi foliis breviores, 
4-7 flori. Sepala patentia, unguiculata, obovato-spathulata. Petala similia. Labellum trilobo-subpanduratum, lobis late- 
ralibus parvis auriculiformibus erectis rotundatis; intermedio late unguiculato dilatato reniformi-semilunato concavo 
integro, disco subtiliter rugoso basi bicarinato, calcari conico compresso recurvo. Columna brevissima. 
Vanda insignis BLUME in Rumphia, IV, p. 49, tt. 192, fig. 2, 197, fig. B. — Linpv. in Paxt. Fl, Gard., 
II, pp. 19, 21, cum xyl. — Ip., Fol. Orch., Vanda, p. 4. — Bot. Mag., t. 5759. — Reus. ¥F. in Gard. Chron., 
1868, p. 1259. — Warn. Sel. Orch., ser. I, t. 3. — WarN. & WILL. Orch. Album, IV, t. 172. — JENN. Orch., 
t. 46. — VerrcH Man. Orch., pt. VII, p. 97. 
Var. Schroederiana Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1883, pt. II, p. 392. — The Garden, XXV, p. 168, t. 429. — 
VeITcH Man, Orch., pt. VII, p. 98. 
his handsome Vanda was originally discovered in the island of Timor, 
by Biume, who described and figured it in 1848. It was first introduced 
to cultivation in 1867, by Messrs James Verrcu & Sons, of Chelsea, 
through their ill-fated collector Hutton, who after despatching his collection, 
including the Aérides which bears his name, returned to Java, where he died 
quite suddenly. It flowered for the first time in their establishment in October 
of the following year, on which occasion it was exhibited at a meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, and was awarded a First-class Certificate. It conti- 
nued very rare in gardens until 1882, when Messrs Verrcu again imported a 
batch through their collector Curtis. 
It is a distinct and handsome species, with flowers from two to two and a 
half inches in diameter, with white, twisted and grooved pedicels. The sepals 
and petals are bright tawny yellow, with dark brown oblong spots which are 
more or less confluent at the margins and apex. The lip is bright rose-purple, 
