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with two small white rounded auricles and two small white keels between them. 
The very stout column is suffused with pale rose. 
It is somewhat variable in colour, as a glance at the above cited figures 
will show, but the most marked deviation from the typical form is the variety 
Schroederiana, described by RetcHENBACH, in 1883. In this the sepals and petals 
are light yellow shaded with orange, and the lip cream-white with two orange 
lines in front of the spur. It appeared as a single plant in the consignment sent 
home by Curtis, and is now in the celebrated collection of Baron Scuroper, 
of The Dell, near Windsor. 
According to Curtis, Vanda insignis occurs along the coast and on low 
hills up to 1000 feet elevation, in Timor and the small adjacent island of Semao. 
It prefers low growing trees in rather open situations, where it gets but slight 
shade, but not on rocks or in dense shade. This traveller remarks that he 
happened to be in Timor during the flowering season, namely March and April, 
and saw thousands of flowers, though none approaching the variety Schroederiana. 
The existence of this unique variety was not suspected until it flowered in 
cultivation. 
The accompanying figure was prepared from a plant in the collection of 
M. pe 1a DevansayeE, a French amateur of Orchids, President of the “ Société 
dhorticulture d’Angers et du Maine et Loire. ” 
R. A. Ro.re. 
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