VAN DA. 



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form a short pinkisli spur. The flowers, which are very sweet-scented, appear 



during the summer, and last five or six weeks in beauty. There are several 



varieties of this plant, one having it 



darker coloured blue lip than the other, 



and one having the lip pink. — India : 



Bengal. 



Fig.— Sot. Mag., t. 2245 ; Id., t. 3-tlG 

 (var. unicolor') ; Bik. Reg., t. 506 ; Flore cle.^ 

 Serves, ii. t. 2 ; Id., t. 641, f. 2 ; Pa-uioii, Maij. 

 Bot., vii. p. 265, with tab. (pink lip) ; Wight, 

 Icon. PI. Ind. Oi:, t. 916 ; Mchb. Fl. Exot., 

 t. 121 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., ii. t. 42, f. 2 ; 

 Hooh. First Cent. Oreh. PL, t. 87 (var. 

 unioolor') ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 69. 



Syn. — V. tessellata ; V. iasdloides ; 

 Cymbidium tcsselloides. 



V. ROXBURGHII 



V. CONCOLOIi. 



UNICOLOR.-See 



V. SANDERIANA.-See Esmeralda. 

 Sanderiana. 



VAXDA KOXBUKGHII. 



V. STAN GE AN A, Rchh. f. — A species somewhat resembling V. Roxburghii, 

 producing from four to five flowers on a spike. The sepals and petals inside 

 are at first greenish, afterwards ochre-coloured, tessellated with dark purple- 

 brown ; the auricles of the lip are blunt, white with yellow and some mauve- 

 blue spots, the centre lobe cordate triangular, emarginate at the apex, white 

 with mauve-blue, or wholly mauve-blue. — Assam. 



Fia.—Xciiin Orch., ii. t. 102. 



V. STELLA.— See V. concolor. 



V. SUAVIS, Lindl. — A truly magnificent species, and one of the finest of 

 Orchids for exhibition purposes. It is a strong-growing plant, of erect habit, 

 with lorate flaccid recurved dark green leaves, obliquely dentate at the apex. 

 The peduncles are axillary, and bear a bold elongate raceme of large handsome 

 flowers, which are very freely prodiiced, and deliciously fragrant. The sepals 

 and petals are bluntly spathtilate, the dorsal sepal and two petals turned back- 

 wards away from the lip, convex, much undulated, and sub-lobate, the petals 

 twisted so as to bring their hinder face foremost, all pure white unspotted 

 outside, but on the inner surface freely spotted and barred, with rich blood- 

 purple ; the convex three-lobed lip has the front lobe narrow, deeply bifid, and 

 of a pale rosy purple, while the lateral lobes are ovate, flat, and of a deeper 

 bright rosy-purple. It blossoms at different periods of the year, and lasts a 

 long time in perfection. So noble and sweet a plant should find a home in 

 every Orchid collection. — Java. \_For Illustration see page 748.] 



jH''ie. — Bot. Mag., t. 5174 ; Batevi. Second Cent. Orch. PI, t. 125 ; Pescatorea, t. 8 

 {media) ; Jennings. Orch., t. 23 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., ii. t. 42, f. 3 ; Piiydt, Lcs Orch., 

 t. 47 ; Xenia Onh.,'i. t. 12 ; VUort. Fratig., 1861, t. 1 : Flore de.t Serres, t. 641, f . 3 ; Id., 

 tt. 1604-5 {Hrubyana) ; Gard. Chron., N.S., xxii. 237, f. 47 (Wingate's var.); L'Orchid- 

 opUle, 1886, p. 301 ; Revue Hurt. Beige, 1890, p. 157, t. 19; Gard. Chron.. 3rd ser., 1890, 

 vii. p. 133, f. 20 ; Vcitch's Man. Orch. PL, vii. p. 107 ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 180. 



