An objective-prism plate recently received at the Warner and Swasey Observatory from Dr. Pik-Sin The at the Bosscha Observatory, Lembang, Indonesia, centered on the open cluster NGC 3228, shows an unusually fine spectrum of the long-period variable W Velorum (period 394 days, 8.8-14.0 mv; HDE 299011, CoD 53°3420, CPD 53°3515). As this spectrum shows more detail than is usual for objective-prism spectra, it seems worth while to describe it here. The spectral class usually cited for this star, M7e, was obtained from two early Harvard plates ( Townley, Cannon, and Campbell 1928 ) taken a month and a fortnight after maximum light. Feast ( 1963 ) has published a spectral class, M8 lile, for JD 2435510, close to a time of maximum light. The Bosscha spectrum reproduced in Plate I was obtained with the 20/28-inch Schmidt-type telescope on JD 2439564. According to the epoch of maximum and period given in the 1958 edition of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars, JD 2434334 + 393^59 E, this plate was taken 113 days after predicted maximum. By comparison with Joy's ( 1926 ) spectra of Mira and Merrill's ( 1936 ) spectra of other long-period variables, this spectrum of W Vel appears to be a typical M8e star. On the original spectrum and the microphotometer tracing ( Fig. 1 ) all the 27 TiO band heads between X' 4085 and 5167 listed by Merrill ( 1940 ), except for two affected by the defect, could be identified. Numerous other features are present but for the most part are less certainly identified. ( The richness of detail reported by Merrill in 1946 and 1952 in slit spectra of R Leonis is, of course, not present