202 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VANILLA WIGHTIANA. 
THIS very rare species has just flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, apparently for the first time in cultiva- 
tion. It belongs to the leafless section of the genus, and is a native of the 
Deccan Peninsula, South India, but has previously only been known by the 
original specimens, collected by Wight, and named by Lindley, over sixty 
years ago (Wight Cat., p. 123). No description was published, and Lindley — 
afterwards reduced it, somewhat doubtfully, to the Malayan V. aphylla, 
Blume (Gen. and Sp. Orch., p. 436). The flowers are 1} inches long, and 
the sepals and petals are linear-oblong, slightly spreading, and pale yellow, 
tipped with green. The lip is obscurely 3-lobed, with a broad line of 
slightly retrorse hairs, about a line long, from the apex down to the crest, 
which is similar except that the hairs are rather more retrorse. The hairs 
of the crest and throat are red-purple, but those near the apex are pale 
yellow, like the rest of the lip. The flowers are fragrant, something like 
heliotrope. Wight afterwards figured the species (Ic. Pl. Ind. or., V, t- 
931), but the figure is very inaccurate, as the imperfect type specimens 
show. Twelve leafless species of the genus are known, five being Asiatic, 
four African and Mascarene, and three West Indian, but only three are 
certainly known in cultivation, namely, V. Phalznopsis, Rchb. f. (FJ. des 
Serres, t. 1769-70), a native of the Seychelle Islands; V. Walkeriz, Wight 
(Ic. Pl. Ind. or., v. t. 932), a native of Ceylon; and the present one. This 
indeed was thought to be V. Walkeriz until it bloomed, but that species 
has white flowers, of nearly twice the size, with two slightly pubescent 
lines on the lower part of the lip. A more complete account of these 
plants may be found in my monograph of the genus (Journ. Linn. Soe., 
XXXll., pp. 439-478). 
R. A. ROLFE. 
VANDA ROXBURGHII AT HOME. 
AmMonGst the numerous species of Orchids belonging to our Indian flora, 
very few are so widely distributed as the old Vanda Roxburghii. It is 
mostly found in the plains, and it is one of our commonest species in 
Lower Bengal, chiefly in the Calcutta district. It is also found up to 
Behar, Gugerat, and Concan, and in a southern direction down to Ceylon, — 
where we noticed many good specimens not very far from the cinnamon 
gardens, a well-known place for visitors to Colombo. It is found under 
various conditions, sometimes strongly fastened to the branches of trees, 
sometimes simply hanging down. We have several times noticed splendid 
specimens thriving wonderfully well on the branches of some tall Ficus 
religiosa, F. bengalensis, and on the well-known Indian mango tree. Its 
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