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VANDA TERES CANDIDA. 
In 1875 Reichenbach wrote :—‘‘ There has been for years and years much 
talk about the phenomenon of a cream-white Vanda teres, just as there 
would be ofa rosy one, provided the common form were white. I have finally 
been so lucky as to obtain this rarissima avis by the kindness of Mr. Harry 
Veitch. It has the colours of Dendrobium infundibulum—white, with some 
yellow on the lip. It comes from Lord Crewe, in Cheshire, and was grown 
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by Mr. Whittaker, his gardener” (Gard. Chron., 1875, iv., p- 225). After- 
wards a plant was figured in the Orchid Album (vol. ix., t. 409) under the same 
name, when it was remarked .—‘ This is the purest white form of Vanda 
teres that has come under our notice; for several years we have been aware 
of the existence of an albino form of this species, and we have waited 
anxiously for it. Various plants have from time to time been pointed out to 
us as being the veritable plant, but upon examination they have proved to 
