Tas. 5611. 
VANDA Bensont. 
Colonel Benson’s Vanda. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pp2.—Gynanpr1i Monanpria. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 4432.) 
Vanna Bensoni; foliis canaliculatis oblique ineequali-dentatis racemis 
erectis rigidis multifloris duplo brevioribus, floribus distantibus pedi- 
cellis subeequalibus, sepalis petalisque minoribus unguiculatis obovatis 
obtusis intus guttulatis (nec tessellatis), labello convexo ovato disco 
trilamellato apice alté bifido subreniformi auriculis ad basin triangu- 
laribus obtusiusculis, caleare conico obtuso. 
Vanva Bensoni. Bateman, mss. 
This elegant addition to our list of Vandas was discovered 
in Rangoon and sent to Messrs. Veitch by that zealous natu- 
ralist Colonel Benson, after whom I have great pleasure in 
naming it. It flowered at Chelsea shortly after its arrival in 
the summer of the present year (1866), though the spikes 
were of course inferior to those produced in its own country, 
some of the latter—which are now in the Kew herbarium 
—having been upwards of half a yard long, and carried 
as many as fifteen flowers. The length of its spikes, the 
absence of all tessellation, the spotting and yellow colour 
of the inside of the flowers, are among the marks that dis- 
tinguish the species from V. Roaburghii and V. concolor, 
to which it is nearly allied. It appears to be a very free 
grower. : 
Descr. Plant a foot or more high, bearing a compact 
mass of distichous channelled coriaceous leaves, which are 
obliquely and unequally toothed, a span or more long. 
Flower-spikes upright, many-flowered, much longer than the 
leaves. Pedicels about an inch long, white. Flowers not 
closely arranged, about two inches across: the sepals and 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1866. 
