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PL. DXLVII. 
VANDA SANDERIANA rcup. PF. 
Mr. SANDER’S VANDA. 
VANDA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 47. 
Vanda Sanderiana. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 85. 
Var. labello viridi L. Linp. et Rop., in Lindenia, 1. c. 
he accompanying plate represents the type of this magnificent species, 
4) of which ten years ago we figured a remarkable variety. 
Hat ecan Vanda Sanderiana is the giant of the genus, and certainly the most 
highly coloured species. By means of its broadly rounded and delicately tinted 
flat sepals and petals, which, as someone has not unreasonably remarked remind 
one of certain Miltonias; by its two very distinct lateral sepals, gorgeously netted 
with purple on a yellow ground; by its short spurless lip, resembling that of 
Vanda or Arachnanthe Cathcarti, this species at once excites attention and 
admiration, and is undoubtedly one of the chief wonders of the warm orchid house. 
M. Rorseten, to whom the honour of discovering this brilliant species 
belongs, has related in the Fournal des Orchidées for 1894 the conditions under 
which he procured it towards the end of 1881 in the neighbourhood of Davao in 
the Philippine Islands. After having at first collected some plants which bore no 
flowers, but which revealed a novelty by their habit, he was suddenly abandoned 
by the prisoners which had been given him as an escort. « I was then obliged, 
writes M. Rorpeten, to descend to the plain, and after a somewhat lengthy 
palaver with the chief of the tribe, he consented to supply me with any number 
of carriers provided I handed over everything in my possession, and particularly 
my umbrella which he wanted for his wife. 
« Lset out the same day about ro a. m. and at 6 p. m. reached the dwelling 
of a transported Spaniard who cultivated a few Cocoa trees around his miserable 
hut. I remained with him some days in order to pack my plants, and it was he 
who accompanied me the first day in his little boat, having no servants at his 
disposal. On landing in the evening I saw at the top of a tree some flowers which 
appeared to me to be those of a Vanda, and some minutes afterwards, in spite of 
the very palpable protestations of the ants which disputed my right to the plant, 
I held the beautiful Vanda in my hand. All my miseries and all my fatigues were 
at that moment forgotten. It is necessary to have travelled in order to realise the 
joy experienced at the discovery of a new plant, and that such an one as Vanda 
Sanderiana. — The little plant had three stems and forty-two flowers. » 
