Tab. 8709. 
. VANDA Luzonica. 
Philippine Islands, 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE. 
Vanna, B. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 578. 
Vanda luzonica, Loher ew Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1915, p. 187, fig. 12, et p. 871; 
species V. tricolori, Lindl., affinis, caule breviore, floribus minoribus, 
sepalis albis nec regulariter brunneo-maculatis distinguenda. 
Herba epiphytica, 25-30 cm. alta. Caules crassi, erecti, vaginis foliorum 
obtecti. Folia recurva, oblonga, brevissime biloba, coriacea, basi con- 
duplicata, 15-35 cm. longa, 2°5-7 cm. lata. Scapt erecti, circiter 
20 cm. longi, multiflori; bracteae orbiculari-obovatae, obtusae, patentes, 
0-5-1 cm. longae; pedicelli 5-7 cm. longi. Flores speciosi, 5°5 em. 
diametro. Sepala et petala patentia, obovata, obtusa, basi attenuata, 
circiter 2°5 cm. longa. Labellum trilobum, basi saccatum, 2-2°5 em, 
latum; lobus intermedius pandurato-oblongus, obtusus, convexus ;_ lobi 
laterales erecti, auriculati. Colwmna lata, oblonga, circiter 4 mm. lata, 
Pollinia 2; stipes oblongus; glandula late squamata. Capsula oblonga, 
acute angulata, 6-7 cm. longa, longe pedicellata.—R. A. RoLFE. 
The distinct and handsome Vanda here figured is a 
native of the Philippines. It was collected in central 
Luzon, in the Montalban district, by Mr. A. Loher in May, 
1905, and dried specimens from this locality, accompanied 
by a photograph and drawings, were presented by him to 
the herbarium at Kew in 1906 under the name V. /uzonica. 
That living plants had already been introduced to culti- 
vation in Europe is shown by a reference to the fact that 
the species, under this name, was then alive in the orchid 
collection at Erlangen. The plant from which our figure 
has been prepared was purchased for the orchid collection 
at Kewin 1911 from Mr. ©. F. Karthaus, Potsdam. But 
although the name V. luzonica was already in use among 
orchid growers, no description of the species was pub- 
lished until 1915, when a plant flowered in the collection 
of Mr. H. Dixon, Sydney, New South Wales. A little 
later in the same year it was exhibited in flower at the 
Panama Exhibition. In November, 1915, it also flowered 
in the collection of Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, 
May, 1917. 
