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THE THREE-COLOURED VANDA. 



( VANDA TRICOLOR.) 



A Beautiful Stove Epiphyte, Native of Java, belonging to the Natural Order of Orchids. 



Specific Character. 



THE THREE-COLOURED VANDA. Leaves distichous, channelled, shorter than the few-flowered raceme. Sepals 

 leathery, unguiculate, obovate, obtuse. Lip of the same length, three-lobed, with three lines in the axis. Spur short, 

 obtuse ; its lateral lobes rounded, broader than that in the middle, which is convex, cuneate and emarginate. 



Vanda tricolor : Lindley in Rat. Reg., 1847, sub t. 59 ; alias V. suaveolens. Bhvne Rumphia, iv., p. 49 (1848), 



THIS fine Orchid was first imported from Java by Messrs. Veitch, but has since reached 

 England through other channels. It has the habit of Vanda Roxbiirgkii, and its 

 flowers appear in the same manner, but they are larger, have yellow and brown spotted 

 sepals, and a rose-coloured lip, with the lateral lobes rounded, not acute, and colourless. 

 It is not far removed from V. Hindsii, a New Guinea plant; but that species has a 

 long many-flowered raceme extending as far as the points of the leaves. It has also 

 been compared with Vanda insignis, an account of which has been published by Dr. 

 Blume, with a figure, of a part of which the following is a copy : — 



From this we learn that Vanda insignis has a concave, not 

 convex, lip, with very small lateral lobes, and the broad central 

 lobe deeply heart-shaped. 



Many varieties of this 

 species occur in collections, 

 of which the three follow- 

 ing are the most notable : 

 — 1. V. t. pallens. Flowers 

 cream-coloured, with scattered 

 brown spots. 2. V. t. chaia- 

 momea. Flowers yellower, 



with lines of close cinnamon-coloured spots. 3. V- 

 t. planilabris. With a clear citron ground-colour, 

 scattered broad brown spots, and a flat purple lip. 

 This looks very distinct from the others. 



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