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rosy-lilac margined with white, the disk tumid with five to seven parallel 

 grooves. This species flowers in June, and lasts a long time in perfection. 

 — Java. 



Via.— But. Mag., i. C173 ; Wariur, Sel. Oreli. PL, ili. t. 9. 



V. LINDENI, Rchh. /.—This plant is closely allied to V. hastifera, and was 

 introduced by Mr. August Linden in 1885. The sepals and petals are cuneate 

 oblong, undulated at the margins, yellow spotted with red; lip three-lobed, 

 fleshy, the lateral lobes at right angles to the middle lobe, which is triangular 

 obtuse ancipitous. — New Guinea. 



Fig. — Lbiclcnia, ii. t. 56. 



V. LISSOCHILOIDES.-See V. Batemami. 

 V. LOWll.— See Eexantheea Lowii. 



V. PARISHII, Bchl. f. — A very handsome and distinct Vanda, having at 

 first sight the appearance of a Phalaenopsis. It is a dwarf stout-growing species, 

 and produces broadly ligulate-obtuse fleshy distichous bright green leaves with 

 an unequal bilobed apex ; and a stifE erect scape supporting several large 

 prettily-spotted flowers, of which the cuneate-oblong acute sepals and petals 

 are of a greenish-yellow spotted with somewhat bold dots of reddish-brown ; 

 and the lip, which is very powerfully scented with a peculiar odour, has the 

 front lobe pale magenta, narrowly margined with white, rhomboid, gibbous 

 below the apex with a median keel, and a violet-coloured conical callus at the 

 base, where is a short gibbous spur and small white orange-striped auricles. 

 It flowers during the summer mouths. — Moulmein. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, i. t. 15. 



V. PARISHII MARRIOTTIANA, Rchh. /.—A very distinct and beautiful 

 variety, first flowered by Sir W. H. S. Marriott, Bart. It is a dwarf compact 

 plant, with the short stems closely set with distichous ligulate-obtuse fleshy 

 leaves, slightly and unequally emarginate ; the scape is axillary erect, bearing 

 a raceme of about six handsome flowers, of which the sepals and petals, instead 

 of being spotted as in the type, are bronzy-brown richly suffused with magenta, 

 and the lip has white basal auricles and a rich magenta rhomboid front lobe. 

 The flowers of this variety are not scented. It blossoms during the summer 

 months. — Moulmein. 



Fig. — Orchid Allium, ii. t. 61 ; Veitch's Man. Orck. PL, vii. p. 101. 



V. PARVIFLORA.— See Aiskides Wigiitianum. 



V. ROXBURGHII, 11. Br. — A well-marked old species, having stout dwarfish 

 erect stems, with two-ranked ligulate channelled recurved leathery leaves, 

 obliquely tridentate at the apex ; the peduncles are erect, and bear a raceme 

 of six to twelve flowers, which have the bluntly oblong-obovate sepals and 

 petals pale green with chequered lines of olive brown, the outer surface white 

 and the lip violet-purple, convex in the front parts, deeper purple towards the 

 point, the lanceolate lateral lobes white, and the base projected backwards to 



