460 MR. R. ALLEN ROLFE ON THE GENUS VANILLA. 
Planta 20-30 ped. alta. Folia 4-6 poll. longa, 1-13 poll. 
lata. Racemi 1-1} poll. longi. Bractew 14-2 poll. longee. 
Sepala et petala 14-13 poll. longa. Labellum 13-14 poll. 
longum. Columna 2 poll. longa. Capsula 5-6 poll. longa, 
? poll. lata. 
I have only seen a fruiting specimen from Borneo, which 
has more numerons bracts than in Blume’s original figure, 
though in other respects it agrees well with it. It is very 
distinct from V. Grifithii, Reichb. f., which has been confused 
with it. The fruit appears not to be aromatic. 
19. VANILLA BoRNEENSIS, Rolfe; caule crassiusculo flexuoso ; 
foliis petiolatis oblongis vel elliptico-oblongis, acuminatis ; 
racemis brevibus flexuosis paucifloris, bracteis ovatis vel 
triangulari-ovatis acutis ; capsulis elongato-linearibus. 
Hab. Borneo, at Banjarmassing, Motley, 1248! 
Internodi 23-4 poll. longi. Folia 4-6 poll. longa, 1-2 poll. 
lata; petioli 4-6 lin. longi. Racemi 1-1$ poll. longi. Bractez 
2-3 lin. longer. Capsula 3-33 poll. longa. 
Readily distinguished from its allies by its lax, few-flowered 
racemes. 
A sketch of a flower and leaf, made by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, 
and preserved at the British Museum together with a piece of 
the stem, may belong here, both the leaf and the habitat being 
substantially identical. The sepals and petals are oblong and 
obtuse, and the lip has largish rounded side lobes, a short, 
broad, front lobe, and five verrucose keels near the front. The 
details of the central crest are not clearly indicated. It is 
labelled Tawaran and Tampasuk Rivers, N.-W. Borneo. 
Flowers large, waxy white and brown, Fruit not seen. Grows 
on trees near wet rocks by river side. 
20. V. PALEMBANICA, Teysm. et Binn. in Tijdschr. Nederl. 
Ind., xxix (1867) p. 243; foliis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis,; 
basi rotundatis obsolete venosis ; spicis 6 -8-floris bifariis, 
bracteis parvis ovatis squamiformibus ; sepalis ovalis obtusis 
carnosulis convexiusculis levibus;  petalis similibus late 
carinatis; labelli tubo ventricoso limbo retuso undulato 
barbato ; column& glabra ; capsulis obsolete triquetris rectius- 
culis. 
Hab. Sumatra, in prov. Palembang, Teysman. 
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