. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . tip, and of a pale green colour. The long erect scapesare axillary, and bear many large spreading flowers, of whichthe sepals and petals are thick and fleshy, falcate, obtuselyobovate ensiform, yellow spotted with crimson in front,rosy purple at the back, fading to violet at the edge ; and thelip is triangular saccate at the base, and of a purple-crimsoncolour, the front part furrowed and incurved, the diskbearing an elevated tooth, and its base a short transversecrest. It blooms i
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . tip, and of a pale green colour. The long erect scapesare axillary, and bear many large spreading flowers, of whichthe sepals and petals are thick and fleshy, falcate, obtuselyobovate ensiform, yellow spotted with crimson in front,rosy purple at the back, fading to violet at the edge ; and thelip is triangular saccate at the base, and of a purple-crimsoncolour, the front part furrowed and incurved, the diskbearing an elevated tooth, and its base a short transversecrest. It blooms in July, August, and September, andcontinues blooming for three months.—Philippine Islands;Moluccas. FiG.—Bot. Reg., 1846, t. 59 ; Moore, III. Orch. PI, Vanda 1; Flore desServes, tt. 1921-2 ; Gaudickaud, Freyc. Voy., t. — V. lissochiloides, Fieldia lissochiloides. Y. Bensoni, Bateman.—A very elegant addition to thisbeautiful genus, and allied to V. Roxburghii. It is a free-growing plant a foot or more in height, producing distichouschannelled leathery lorate leaves, which are unequally toothed. VANDA CATHCARTII. VANDA. 599 at the apex, and erect rigid scapes a foot and a half longfrom the base of the shoots. The flowers are about twoinches in diameter, white on the outside, the sepals and thesmaller petals obovate obtuse, yellowish green, dotted, nottessellated, with reddish brown on the inside, and the lipovate in front, is convex, trilamellate on the disk, pink, witha kidney-shaped bifid violet-coloured apex, the small basalauricles and conical spur white.—Banfjoon. FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5611; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 192; , 1867, 180, with fig.; Flore des Serves, t. 2329. V. Catlicarti, Lindhy.—A tall scrambling but very distinctand noble species, somewhat resembling lienanthera coccineain its general habit, but stouter. The leaves are arranged ina distichous manner, pale green, six or seven inches long,linear-oblong, unequally bilobed at the
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