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first flowered by W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leathcrliead. The growth resembles 

 that of Vanda coerulea, but the stem is stouter and larger in all its parts, and more 

 densely leafy; the leaves are broadly ligulate rigid leathery recurved, from 9 to 

 12 inches long and 1 inch broad, deeply channelled, and having the usual distichous 

 arrangement ; the racemes are axillary and many-flowered, the largest on Mr. 

 Lee's plant bore twelve blossoms; the flowers themselves are spread out flat, .ind 



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ESMERALDA SANDEEIANA. 



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are about 4 inches in diameter ; the dorsal sepal is roundish obovatc, and the 

 smaller petals are obovate-cuneate, all these being blush-pink slightly stained with 

 buff -yellow ; the lateral sepals are much larger and broader, being about 2 inches 

 across, divergent, obliquely and broadly obovate, pale nankin outside, greenish - 

 yellow, "distinctly reticulated with dull crimson over the entire surface ; the lip is 

 small, concave, pale purplish-red at the base, the strongly recurved tip chocolate- 



