Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore. 
1st. trch. 1929. 
Tl 
oar By. 
Very many thanks for your letters of 29th. 
January and 3rd* February, with determinations of Coeloy./ ng 
vary ns . and Vanda sumatrana , Tho sheet of C. vegans was not 
meant to be retur ted. 
I an sending you two more specimens in alcohol, on 
which I should oe ylau to have y >ur o pinion. Both are 
from Vr. J. Laycock's collections. 
The first was received by him from a dealer in Manila 
labelled Vanda, clitollari a * I.chb., but looks more like a 
! •• * i,* 
Ro_nailthe ra. The sten- r-.ro about a foot and a half long, 
the leaves vey thiol-:, dark green v/ith a thickened od-e, 
if 
sessile and up to about 8-9 inches long. Part of a leaf 
is in the spirit tube. The inflorescence is a little longer 
than the leaves, with 8-10 flowers. The flowers are uniform¬ 
ly yellow v/ith red spots. 
Tue seconu, a local plant, seea 3 to be very close to 
M? -y e.3 Jdorataa, apparently differing so.lewhat in col v.r. 
Tf.e aepels and petals are white, faintly suffuse;, with 
amethyst, with an amethyst patch at the tips. This colour 
i3 much more prominent on the backs of the speals and petals 
Llp yel:Low » mldlo ' oe wit & a Pink bar inside and out, the spur 
P^®^ ^°t,j and lines, out greenish ai the very tin. 
Base of sidelobes within and foot of column with pink spots 
anu lines, otherwise the column white. Pedicel of the oa..e 
a,ethyst colour as on hie speals and petals. 
3r. J.J.'Smith, 
Dorpstraat 64, 
Oostgeest (Lei 
fours sincerely, 
eiden) 
’Holland 
Curator of the Herbariu. i 
