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Vanda (To the species and varieties)

To the species and varieties described on pp. 133-6, the following should now be added:

V. Amesiana (Ames'). fl. creamy-white, with a rich rosy hue mostly on the lip (which changes, when the flowers begin to fade, into light yellow), deliciously perfumed, thin and delicate in texture; sepals and petals cuneate-oblong, blunt-acute; side laciniae of the lip small, nearly square, the middle one reniform, bilobed; spur conical, empty; inflorescence one to twelve-flowered. l. lorate, complicate. India, 1887. V. Clarkei (Clarke's). fl. much as in V. Cathcarti; sepals and petals dark brown, barred ochre, yellow inside, cuneate-oblong, obtuse; lip whitish, marked brown, three-lobed, with a conical, acute spur, the front lobe cordate, oblong-elliptic, with a rough, lobulate border, and seven to nine whitish keels; the mouth of the spur covered by two retrorse crests, with another crest in front. Himalayas, 1886. SYN. Esmeralda Clarkei. The correct name of this species is Arachnanthe Clarkei.

V. Dearei (Deare's). fl. yellow; sepals and petals shortly stalked, elliptic, obtuse; lip with small, squarish side lobes, and a broad, transverse, pandurate front lobe, the conical spur having a short, rounded, grooved crest over the front of its mouth. Sunda Isles, 1886. Allied to V. tricolor. V. Sanderiana albata (whitish). fl., upper sepal and petals quite white, with a few purple dots at the base, the lateral sepals red-nerved; hypochil sulphur, striped brownish-purple, the anterior lacinia brownish-sulphur (sometimes purple-striped) at base. 1887.