SEPTEMBER, 1906. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 281 
VANDA TERES CANDIDA. 
VANDA TERES Is one of our most beautiful Orchids when successfully grown 
in a nice sunny position, and the splendid group shown at the Temple 
Show three years ago from the collection of Leopold de Rothschild, Esq. 
will not soon be forgotten. But it is remarkable how rare the white variety 
candida is, though it was described as long ago as 1875 (Rchb. f. in Gard. 
Chron. 1875, ii., p. 225), when 
it appeared in the collection of 
Lord Crewe. Reichenbach de- 
scribed it as having flowers 
with the “colours of Den- 
drobium = infundibulum—white 
with some yellow on the lip.” 
We are inclined to think that 
it must have been lost sight 
of in this country, for the one 
figured in the Orchid Album 
(ix. t. 409) under this name 
has a rosy stain on the front 
lobe of the lip, and thus is 
more like the variety aurorea 
(Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, 
i. p. 688), which was described 
as a lovely variety, with snow 
white tlowers, and a light rosy 
hue on the interior part of the 
lip, and some light-yellow in 
the throat. The one here 
figured flowered in the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, in 
April, 1899, and Mr. Griessen 
describes the flowers as pure 
white, as white as any Orchid Fig. 38. VANDA TERES CANDIDA. 
may be expected to be, with ; 
only the disc yellow, and he remarks that he only knows of snothier 
Specimen, which flowered in the Agri-Horticultural Gardens at Allipore. 
It is evidently as rare as it is beautiful. 
Vanda teres is one of the few Orchids which seems able to stand the 
brightest sunlight without injury, and should be grown in a couier of 
the Warm house where it can get plenty of direct sunlight, without any 
attempt at shading. 
