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oblong triangular auricles, and a hastate blade covered with hairs at its base 

 which is dilated thick tumid blunt and shining in front, white marked with 

 brown and mauve, and the column is white spotted with brown. — Sondatc 

 Islands. 



V. HOOKERIANA, Rchb. f.— This distinct and very beautiful species, which 

 is in habit something like a small form of V. teres, has resisted many attempts 

 to introduce it in a living state, but, thanks to the zeal of our collectors, we 

 have now a plentiful supply. It has elongate rigid terete pale green rooting 

 stems, and erect terete pale green leaves 2 to 3 inches long, and tapered to a 

 subulate point ; the peduncles grow out near the top of the stem, opposite the 

 leaves, which they exceed in length, and bear a raceme of from two to five 

 membranaceous flowerp, each 2| inches in diameter, the sepals white tinted with 

 rose, the larger spathuliite oblong undulated petals white spotted with magenta, 

 and the lip expanded from a cuneate base, three-lobed, upwards of 1^ inch 

 broad, white, beautifully lined longitudinally in the centre, transversely on the 

 side lobes, and spotted near the edge on all the lobes with rich magenta-purple, 

 a large triangular deep purple auricle standing on each side the column. It 

 was recently flowered in the collections of Lord Eothschild, at Tring Park, and 

 W. R. Lea, Esq., Hallow, Worcester. In these cases only two flowers have 

 "been produced on the spike, but we have reason to believe that with improved 

 cultivation it will produce as many as five. It flowers in September, and 

 requires the same treatment as that recommended for V. teres. A form of this 

 plant, which has been introduced from Cochin China, appears to be a very 

 shy bloomer. — Borneo ; Ferak ; Cochin China. 



Fig.— OroIUd Album, ii. t. 73 ; L'lll. HoH., 3rd ser., 1883, xxx. t. 484 ; Reichen- 

 hachia, ii. t. 74 ; Veitch's Man. Oreh. PI., vii. p. 96. 



V. INSIGNIS, Blume. — This very beautiful plant has by repute been an 

 inmate of our gardens for years, but its name was for a long time given in 

 mistake to a variety of V. tricolor. The true plant is, however, now in cultiva- 

 tion. Its stems are sub-erect, clothed with distichous rigid linear-ligulate 

 curving channelled leaves, which are unequally cut away or denticulate at the 

 tip ; and producing five- to seven-flowered racemes about equalling the leaves 

 in length; the flowers are as large as those of V. tricolor ; the obovate spathu- 

 late obtuse sepals and petals are of a light brown within spotted with deep 

 chocolate-brown, yellowish- white on the outside ; and the lip is large, almost 

 fiddle-shaped, with two short white side lobes, the front lobe white, semi-ovate 

 at the base, suddenly expanding into a concave semi-lunar limb of a light 

 purplish-rose, the disk traversed by two low ridges. It is exceedingly hand- 

 some, producing its blooms in May and June. — Moluccas ; Timor. 



Fig. — Sot. Mag., t. 5759; Jennings, Orch., t. 46 ; Orchid Album, iv. 1. 172 ; Blume, 

 UmnpTi. t. 192 and t. 197 ; Paxton, Fl. Oard., ii. p. 19, with fig. ; Lindenia, viii. t. 355. 



V. INSIGNIS, Warner. — See V. TRicoLoa insi&nis. 



V. INSIGNIS SCHRODERIANA, iSofefe. /.— A very chaste and distinct variety, 

 which was exhibited by Baron Schroder in 1883. The flowers are similar in 

 form to those of the type, but their colours are quite distinct, being yellow and 

 white ; the sepals and petals are of a light yellow, and the lip, which has a large 

 concave anterior limb, pure white. It flowers in autumn. — Malay Archipelago. 



