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making its growth; when at rest less will suffije. This plant is exceedingly 

 well flowered by Mr. Bergman, gardener to Baron Alphonse de Eothschild, 

 Ferrieres, France, who grows a quantity of it in a stove with other plants, close 

 to the glass, the pots being plunged in sphagnum moss. These plants are 

 regularly cut down every year and are never allowed to attain a height exceed- 

 ing 2 to 3 feet ; treated in this way the plants flower abundantly, producing 

 hundreds of blossoms. — Burmah ; Martahan ; Sylhet; Khasia. 



FlQ.—JBot. Mag., t.llH; But. JS*//., t. 1809 ; Part on, Mag. Bot., v. p. 193, with 

 tab. ; Bev. Sort., 185fi, t. 22 ; JInok. FirH Cent. Oi-eli. Pl.,t. 88 ; Eeichcnhachia, 1. 1. 27 ; 

 Teitch's Man. Oi'vh. PL, vii. p. lOi ; The Garden, 1892, xlii. p. 276, t. 876. 



V. TERES ALBA -See V. teres caxdida. 



V. TERES ANDERSONI, Williams.— A. very fine variety of this handsome 

 and distinct species. It has the same habit of growth as the type, but is far 

 more free in blooming, producing its flowers when quite young. The racemes 

 are 10 inches in length, and bear from five to six flovrers, which are richer and 

 deeper in colour than in the old form. This plant was magnificently grown by 

 J. Broome, Esq., late of Wood Lawn, Didsbury, whose specimen, which was 

 trained cylindrically when exhibited, produced on one occasion over two 

 hundred and fifty flowers, and was a grand object. — Sylhet. 



Fig. — Warner, Sel. Oreh. PI., iii. t. 2 ; Orchid Album, x. t. 475. 



V. TERES AURORA, Uclib. f. — A. very pretty variety ; sepals white, petals 

 white with a slight rosy tint, throat light ochre-colour with rosy lobes, which 

 are furnished with two rows of small purple dots ; column light rose-purple. — 

 Sylhet. 



Fm.—.Iourn. of Sort., 1887, xiv. p. 135, f. 22. 



V. TERES CANDIDA, Rchh.f. — A distinct and chaste form which was first 

 flowered by Mr. Whittaker, gardener to Lord Crewe. It differs from the type 

 in bearing white flowers, which are produced during the summer months. It 

 is well flowered by Mr. Whillans, gardener to His Grace the Duke of Marl- 

 borough, Blenheim. — Sylhet. 



Fig. — Orchid Alhum, ix. 1. 109. 

 Syn. — V. teres alba. 



V. TESSELLATA — See Y. Eoxbuughii. 



V. TESSELLOIDES.— See V. Eoxbtogiiii. 



V. TESTACEA. — See Atsrides "Wightiaxum. 



V. TRICOLOR, Lindl. — ^A charming free-growing species with tall erect 

 stems clothed with distichous lorate channelled recurved leaves, obliquely 

 bilobed and somewhat erose at the tip. The peduncles are axillary from the 

 upper leaves, and support short dense racemes of handsome and fragrant 

 flowers, which are white outside. The oblong obovate obtuse sepals and petals 

 are coriaceous, pale yellow, spotted with brownish-red, the lip tbree-lobed, the 

 convex cuneate deeply emarginate middle lobe bright rosy-magenta, paler at 

 the tip, the disk marked with five white lines ; the basal lobes are erect rounded. 



