TAB: 713%. 
VANDA AmeEsIANA. ; 
Native of Cambodia. 
Nat. Ord, Orncuiprz.—Tribe Vanpex. 
Genus Vanna, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 578.) 
Vanva Amesiana ; caule brevi radicibusque crassis, foliis crassis rigidis ‘semi- 
teretibus supra concavis vy. profunde canaliculatis junioribus pugioni- 
formibus a basi semiathplexicaule ad apicem acutam sensim attenuatis, 
racewo valido simplici v. ramoso stricto viridi purpureo maculato laxe 
multifloro, bracteis parvis, floribus I-11 poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque 
ovato-oblongis obtusis subsimilibus albidis, labello sepalis breviore late 
panduriformi albo rogeo striato lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis, 
terminali late cuneato truncato undulato lateribus deflexis, disco 5-carinato 
carinis intra apicem obsoletis basi in callum quadratum postice lobatum 
reflexnm desinentibus, calcare brevi conico obtuso. 
V. Amesiana, Reichh. f. in Gard. Chron. 1887, 1. p. 764 (name only); 1889, 
i, 233; Warner &§ Williams’. Orchid. Ald. vol. vii. t. 296. Co 
I find no published description of this plant by Reichen- 
bach; the first notice of it which I have discovered is 
under “‘ Orchid Notes and Gleanings ” in the 1887 volume 
of the “ Gardener’s Chronicle.’’ There is however a very 
fair figure with description in Warner and Williams’ Orchid 
Album, though the figure gives no more idea than does ours 
of the great size and number of the panicles that the plant 
bears. According to the accounts given of an- imported 
lot in the “‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,” the inflorescence attains 
a height of two feet six inches, and one imported specimen 
is described as bearing eight panicles and 600 flower buds. 
Reichenbach suggests that there may have been more than 
one species in that imported lot, but I know of no confirm- 
ation of this hypothesis. : ee 
V. Amesiana is a remarkable species, differing from all 
others known to me in the enormously stout stem and roots, 
and the hard rigid leaves, the young of which are strict 
and like poinards with a groove down the blade, the older 
are broader and recurved, concave on the upper surface 
and terete on the back. The flowers are sweet-scented. 
The specimen here figured was procured. from Messrs. 
OcToBER lst, 1890. 
