353 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VANDA HOOKERIANA. 
Durinc the past month a plant of the above has flowered in the garden of 
the Agri-Horticultural Society at Alipur. This distinct and beautiful 
species, somewhat resembling a small form of V. teres, has resisted 
repeated attempts to establish and flower it in Calcutta. But a well-rooted 
plant having been obtained, it was frequently syringed in the day time, and 
has produced five spikes with two to four flowers on each. The plant has 
long, terete, rooting stems, and erect, terete leaves about two to three inches 
long, tapering to a point; the flower stems grow out near the top and bear 
a raceme of two to five flowers, each about two inches in diameter; the 
sepals are white, tinted with rose, the large, oblong petals white, spotted 
with magenta, and the expanded lip, which is three-lobed and measures 
about two inches across, is white, beautifully lined longitudinally in the 
centre, transversely on the side lobes, and spotted near the edge on all the 
lobes with rich magenta-purple, a large, triangular, deep purple auricle 
standing on each side of the column. In Singapore Vanda Hookeriana 
flowers profusely and without any trouble, the equable climate suiting it. 
whereas the cold of the winter months and dry heat in the summer in 
Culcutta are unfavourable to successful cultivation. Said to be a native of 
Borneo, Perak, and Cochin China.—H. in Indian Gardening, Oct. 31st, 
IgOI, p. 307. 
INCONSPICUOUS AND RARELY-CULTIVATED ORCHIDS. 
THE very interesting paper on the above subject which was read by Mr. W. 
H. White, Orchid grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.; at the R-BS: 
meeting on March 26th last, is published in the last issue of the Society’s 
Journal (pp. 136-152), and is accompanied by sixteen illustrations prepared 
from photographs. The following is a brief outline :— 
Mr. White commences by remarking that Orchid culture during the last 
quarter of a century has extended with great rapidity, due to the increased 
taste for, and the appreciation of, this beautiful and interesting class of 
plants. But there has always been a general disposition to cultivate only 
the more showy genera. The author does not wish to persuade those who 
have not a real liking for the curiously-constructed and inconspicuous 
genera known as “Botanical Orchids ” to attempt their culture, for unless 
undertaken seriously it would only result in disappointment and _ the loss of 
plants, of which the supply is all too limited for those who, having a taste 
for these little plants, find in them a real and ever-varying pleasure. The 
remark that Orchids, like domestic animals, soon find out whether they are 
under the care of those who really love them, and thrive or fail accordingly, 
is very well illustrated by these frail little genera. For while with care and 
