242 ORCHIDACE& 



deinde angustato apice subito dilatato utrinque dolabrato denticu- 

 lato, calcare conico brevi, columna clavata." — Rolfe, I. c. 



Plant up to 5 dm. high. Stem about 1 cm. thick at base. 

 Leaves distichous, conduplicate, numerous, ligulate, up to 2 dm. 

 long, 11-15 mm. wide from the midrib to the margin. Peduncles 

 rather stout, bearing about 8 brown flowers, 4.5 cm. in diameter. 

 Bracts roundish or oblong-obtuse, 4-5 mm. long. Pedicel and 

 ovary about 4 cm. long, slender. Lateral sejxds 2.3 cm. long, 11 

 mm. wide, obovate to oblanceolate, with a slender claw, obtuse or 

 subacute. Upper sepal ovate-lanceolate, 21 mm. long, 9 mm. wide. 

 Petals similar to the lateral sepals, 21 mm. long, about 1 cm. 

 wide. Labellum 16.5 mm. long, spurred; spur 4.5 mm. long ; lat- 

 eral lobes erect, quadrate-oblong, obscurely retuse, 5 mm. long, 

 about 2.5 mm. wide ; middle lobe finely pubescent, hastate-oblong, 

 dilated at the apex into two dolabrif orm, fimbriate, diverging lobes 

 with a mucro between them ; lobes 7.5 mm. long, 11 mm. wide 

 across the apex ; fimbriations about 2 mm. long ; oblong portion 

 of the middle lobe 4 mm. wide, 7 mm. long, with 5 raised nerves. 

 Column clavate, 8 mm. long. 



This remarkable species has no near affinity. From all other 

 Vandas it is clearly distinguished by the halberd-shaped, fringed 

 lobes of the lip. I have a sketch in my herbarium taken from the 

 type in the Kew herbarium. The fringe on the terminal lobes is 

 represented in this sketch as being shorter than in my specimens, 

 but this difference is not sufficiently great to warrant a specific 

 or varietal distinction. 



On trees, Baguio, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, August 7, 1906, 

 H. M. Curran (no. 5059). 



Malay Archipelago. 



V. SANDERIANA Reichb. f . Gard. Chron. n. s. 17 : 588 (1882), 

 n. s. 20: 402, 440, figs. 67 and 68, and p. 466 (1883), n. s. 21: 9 

 (1884) and 22 : 236 (1884) ; Williams Orch. Alb. 3 : 1. 124 ; Rodi- 

 gas IU. Hort. 31 : 139, t. 532 (1884); l'Orchidophile 2 : 318 (1882) 



