OcroBeR, 1911.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 317 
VANDA MARONIZ. 
At the R.H.S. meeting held on September 26th last a very fine plant of 
Vanda Maroniz was exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards 
Heath, bearing a spike of ten flowers. It is a hybrid between V. teres and 
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V. suavis, and was raised by M. Ch. Maron, Brunoy, France, and flowered 
in 1903 (Orch. Rev., xi. p. 209, fig. 38). The flowers are most like those of 
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V. suavis in shape, and the sepals and petals light rosy lilac with a few 
minute dark dots, bright purple ir 
colour, and the disc ot the plant is 
very distinct, the leaves belie § rete, narrowed upwards from a somewhat 
broader base, and much longer than in V. teres. One of the leaves is 
indistinctly shown in the illustration. It may 
the figure for comparison with V. Joaquimiz, anot thee V. teres ead: 
figured on page 297, and the only other artificially-raised Vanda known. 
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