AprIL, 1918.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 81 
Ae VANDA TERES CANDIDA. [BA 
HITE varieties of Vanda teres are decidedly rare, and the flowering 
of the chaste V. teres alba at Kew, as recorded at p. 50, serves to 
recall an earlier white form, namely, V. teres candida, which flowered as 
long ago as 1875, in the collection of Lord Crewe, in Cheshire. Flowers 
were sent to Reichenbach, who remarked (Gard. Chron., 1875, ii. p. 225): 
Fig. g. VANDA TERES CANDIDA. 
“ There has been for years and years much talk about the phenomenon of a 
cream-white Vanda teres, just as there would be of a rosy one, provided the 
common form were white. I have finally been so lucky as to obtain this 
ravissima avis.” The plant here figured, which evidently represents the 
same form, is one that flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 
