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V. KIMBALLIANA, Jee/i6. /.—Undoubtedly ttis is one of the handsomest 

 Vandas, which was originally found by Mr. Boxall in Upper Burmah. It is of 

 slender habit, producing very narrow subulate leaves, tapering to a point, 

 7 or 8 inches long ; scapes nodding, 12 to 18 inches long, bearing twelve or 

 more handsome flowers measuring 2 inches across ; upper sepal and petals 

 narrow-oblong obtuse undulate at the margins, white suffused with delicate 

 rose ; lateral sepals much larger, falcate, white suffused with pale rose towards 

 the extremities ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes small, bright yellow dotted with 

 brown, the mid-lobe large cordate, deep rich rosy -purple. This plant is named 

 in honour of W. S. "Kimball, Esq., Rochester, U.S.A., a most munificent patron 

 of this class of plants. — Burmah. 



Fig.— The Garden, 1890, xxvii. p. 322, t. 747 ; Lindenia, v. t. 204 ; Bot. 

 t. 7H2 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1889, vi. p. 335, f. 50 ; Journ. ofHoH., 1890, xx. p. 41, f."6; 

 Veitcli's Man. Orch. PI., yii. p. 99 ; Warner, Sel. Oreh. PI., iii. t. 36. 



V. LAMELLATA BOXALLII, BcJib.f. — Avery distinct and charming variety, 

 of very free-flowering character, and which on account of its dwarf habit takes 

 up but little room. It has slender erect stems, long narrow ligulate chan- 

 nelled much recurved leaves, obliquely and 

 acutely bidentate at the tip, and handsome 

 floral racemes, which are longer than in 

 the type, bearing fourteen to twenty 

 flowers, which are handsomely coloured 

 with white, rich brown, and magenta ; the 

 dorsal sepals and two petals are directed 

 backwards, the dorsal sepal oblanceolate, 

 creamy-white, the lateral ones obovate, 

 with the inner side cut away in a curve 

 half way, this part reddish-brown tinged 

 with purple ; the petals are oblong cuneate, 

 white ; and the lip has a squarish sub- 

 panduriform limb of a rich rosy-magenta 

 towards the front, the disk with six 

 reddish-purple stripes running back to 

 the mouth of the tube ; the creamy -white 

 outer half of the lateral sepals, con- 

 trasting with the reddish-brown inner half, is peculiar. It flowers in November 

 and December, affords some variety, and is vastly superior to the type.— 

 Philippine Islands. 



Fia.— The Garden, 1881, xix. p. 574, t. 287 ; Gard. Chron., s.s., 1881, xv. p. 87, f. 18 ; 

 Orchid Album,, viii. t. 338 ; Lindenia, i. t. 32 ; Veiteh's Man. Orch. PL, viii. p. 100. 



V. LIMBATA, Blume. — This rare and beautiful species is distinct in growth, 

 producing on longish peduncles the axillary racemes of from twelve to thirteen 

 flowers ; the stems are robust with long thick roots ; the leaves are leathery, 

 channelled, 8 to 10 inches long, and nearly 1 inch broad, with an obliquely 

 retuse apex; the flowers, which grow in erect loose racemes, are 2 inches 

 in diameter, the spathulate sepals and petals cinnamon-brown, blotched and 

 tessellated with a darker shade of reddish-brown, and evenly bordered with 

 yellow, the exterior tinged with lilac ; the lip is quadrate, slightly pandurate, 



VANDA LAMELLATA BOXALLII. 



