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VANDA RECUR VA. 
Recurved Vanda. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA._Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEJE. 
Ijen. Char. — Labellum calcaratum, cum basi simplici (breviusve producta), 
columnae apterae continuum, trifidum, lobo medio carnoso. Petala pa- 
tentia, distincta. Massce pollinis 2, obliqua biloba. — Br. 
Vanda recurva; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, pedunculis oppositifoliis laxe 
spicatis recurvis, labello concavo tridentato. 
Saccanthus rostratus, Lindl. Coll. Bot. ined. 
Vanda rostrata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1008. > 
Stem in our plants about 8 inches high, brownish-green, spotted obscurely 
with purple, subcompressed, sending out here and there simple, flexu- 
ose, thick roots from near the base. Leaves alternate, remote, jointed 
as it were upon the vagina, subdistichous, linear-lanceolate, thick and 
fleshy, acute at the point. 
Peduncle about 4 inches long, springing from that point of the stem imme- 
diately opposite to the insertion of a leaf, deflexed, waved, naked at the 
base, or only beset with a few small scales or bractege, the rest bearing 
many Jbwers, constituting a small spike or raceme. Each flower has a 
minute bractea at its base. Petals 5, oval, concave, spreading, equal, 
reddish-brown, with a broad line in the centre, and the margins of a 
yellow colour, paler externally. The Lip is about equal in size to the 
petals, thick, fleshy, very concave, rose-coloured, with three sharp lobes 
or teeth, which are singularly incurved ; at the base below, the lip is 
protruded into a large hollow spur or pouch of the same colour, and 
which is nearly equal in length with the germen. Column short, white, 
with two teeth at the base within, a hollow gland or stigma in the front, 
and which, on the top, is crowned with the operculiform, acuminated, 
white anther-case. The top of the stigma has an acuminated process, 
corresponding with that of the anther-case. Pollen-masses 2, deep yel- 
low, obliquely, and so deeply 2-lobed, as to appear four distinct masses : 
these are attached to one end of a filiform stalk, while the other extre- 
mity has a small gland, by means of which it is attached to the process 
forming the top of the stigma. Germen linear-filiform, nearly white, re- 
sembling a pedicel. 
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