VAN DA. 



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yellowish spotted with red-brown on the inside ; the middle lobe 

 broadly ovate, undulate, crisped and erose at the margin, with three 

 paralled keels in the middle, amethyst-purple; spur incurved, nearly an 

 inch long, pale purple. Column white. 



Vanda Kimballiana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. V. s. 3 (1889), p. 232. The Garden, 

 XXX Fir. (1890), t. 747. Bot. Mag. t. 7112. 



Introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. about the same time as Vanda 

 Amesiana, to which it is nearly allied ; its terete leaves would 

 also indicate an affinity with V. teres and F. Hooleriana, but the 

 floral characters differ widely from both. Its habitat is on the hills 



Vanda Kimballiana. 



in the southern Shan States at 4,000 — 5,000 feet elevation, where it 

 is associated with the allied V. Amesiana growing under the conditions 

 we have described in page 89. It is dedicated to Mr. W. S. Kimball, 

 of Rochester, New York, one of the most zealous orchidists in the 

 United States. 



lamellata. 



Leaves 12 — 15 inches long, ^ — f inch broad, obliquely bi-dentate at 

 the apex and strongly keeled beneath. Racemes erect or sub-erect, as 

 long as the leaves, many flowered. Flowers 1 — 2 inches in diameter, 

 light yellow blotched with chestnut brown ; sepals and petals oblong, 

 obtuse, the lateral sepals the broadest and sub-falcate ; lip prolonged 

 at the base into a short obtuse spur, three-lobed, the basal lobes 

 auriculate, rotund, erect, white ; the intermediate lobe oblong-retuse at 

 the apex and traversed longitudinally by two raised plates that are 

 broadest at the middle. 



Vanda lamellata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. No. 12.5. Id. Fol. Oich. Vanda, 

 No, 20, 



