Tas. 7443. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS Kimparrtna. 
~ — Native of Borneo. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIpea#.—Tribe DENDROBIER. 
Genus SraruHoctorris, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. 
p. 571.) 
Spatuoetottis, Kimballiana; elata, pseudobulbis vestigiis folioruam vestitis, 
foliis 2-pedalibus anguste lineari-lanceolatis longe attenuato-acuminatis 
5-7-nervis, bracteis cymbiformibus rufescentibus, floribus amplis, sepalis 
petalisque consimilibas late oblongis obtusis intus aureis, sepalis extus 
striolis rubris aspersis, labelli lobis lateralibus magnis auriculw- 
formibus incurvis intus basi rubro striolatis, lobo intermedio angusto 
glabro basin versus lobulis 2 rotundatis glabris basi 2-dentatis instructo 
apice dilatato truncato. 
S. Kimballiana, Hort. Sander. 
Under 8S. gracilis, Plate 7366 of this work, I have alluded 
to its very close relationship with S. aurea, Lindl.,* 
of Mt. Ophir, 8. Wrayi, Hk. f. of Perak, and the 
subject of this article, adding, “it may well be doubted 
whether these species are not varieties of one; and all the 
more from the fact of S. gracilis and S. Kimballiana 
having been received from Borneo growing in the same 
clump, by Messrs. Sander.” The figure of S. Kimballiana 
here given, together with those of S. awrea, in Gard. 
Chron., and S. Wrayi (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2086) and of S. 
gracilis, if they do not solve the doubt, enable the 
botanist to see at a glance the differences between the 
types of all; but the resolution of the doubt awaits 
a comparison of more specimens of each from other 
localities than that of the types; for until such are ob- 
tained, the first desideratum, namely, the direction and 
limits of the variation of each, cannot be taken into account. 
In so far as available materials enable me to judge, the 
* The typical S. awrea was introduced by Messrs. Veitch in 1849, and pub- 
lished in 1850 by Lindley (in Pawt. Fl. Gard. vol. i. p. 16, and in Jowrn. Hort. 
Soc. Lond, (1850) 34), but the plant died before being figured. The species 
was again introduced in 1886 from Borneo, by Messrs, Sander, and is described 
by Reichenbach and figured in the Gardener’s Chronicle, 1888, vol. ii. p. 92, 
zg. 9. 
Novemser Ist, 1895. 
