. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. VAN DA. 747 form a short pinkisli spur. The flowers, which are very sweet-scented, appear during the summer, and last five or six weeks in beauty. There are several varieties of this plant, one having it darker coloured blue lip than the other, and one having the lip pink.—India: Bengal. Fig.—Sot. Mag., t. 2245 ; Id., t. 3-tlG (var. unicolor') ; Bik. Reg., t. 506 ; Flore cle.^ Serves, ii. t. 2 ; Id., t. 641, f. 2 ; Pa-uioii, Maij. Bot., vii. p. 265, with ta
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. VAN DA. 747 form a short pinkisli spur. The flowers, which are very sweet-scented, appear during the summer, and last five or six weeks in beauty. There are several varieties of this plant, one having it darker coloured blue lip than the other, and one having the lip pink.—India: Bengal. Fig.—Sot. Mag., t. 2245 ; Id., t. 3-tlG (var. unicolor') ; Bik. Reg., t. 506 ; Flore cle.^ Serves, ii. t. 2 ; Id., t. 641, f. 2 ; Pa-uioii, Maij. Bot., vii. p. 265, with tab. (pink lip) ; Wight, Icon. PI. Ind. Oi:, t. 916 ; Mchb. Fl. Exot., t. 121 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., ii. t. 42, f. 2 ; Hooh. First Cent. Oreh. PL, t. 87 (var. unioolor') ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 69. Syn.— V. tessellata ; V. iasdloides ; Cymbidium tcsselloides. V. ROXBURGHII V. CONCOLOIi. V. Esmeralda. Sanderiana. VAXDA KOXBUKGHII. V. STAN GE AN A, Rchh. f.—A species somewhat resembling V. Roxburghii, producing from four to five flowers on a spike. The sepals and petals inside are at first greenish, afterwards ochre-coloured, tessellated with dark purple- brown ; the auricles of the lip are blunt, white with yellow and some mauve- blue spots, the centre lobe cordate triangular, emarginate at the apex, white with mauve-blue, or wholly mauve-blue.—Assam. Fia.—Xciiin Orch., ii. t. 102. V. STELLA.—See V. concolor. V. SUAVIS, Lindl.—A truly magnificent species, and one of the finest of Orchids for exhibition purposes. It is a strong-growing plant, of erect habit, with lorate flaccid recurved dark green leaves, obliquely dentate at the apex. The peduncles are axillary, and bear a bold elongate raceme of large handsome flowers, which are very freely prodiiced, and deliciously fragrant. The sepals and petals are bluntly spathtilate, the dorsal sepal and two petals turned back- wards away from the lip, convex, much undulated, and sub-lobate, the p
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