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spreading, loosely 7- to 11-flowered, about 25 cm long including 
the peduncles; the peduncles massicot yellow, rather stout. 
Flowers very fragrant, fleshy, 3 to 3.5 cm across, nearly as 
long. Pedicellate ovary massicot yellow, twisted, 3.5 to 6.5 
cm long. Bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, up to 5 mm long. Se¬ 
pals obovate, narrowed to the base, broadly obtuse, rounded or 
retuse at the apex, strongly undulate, about 1.8 cm long, 1.3 
to 1.5 cm wide at the broadest portion, the lateral sepals slightly 
wider. Petals similar to the sepals in form, lightly clawed, 
slightly smaller, about 1.8 cm long, 1 to 1.1 cm wide. Labellum 
trilobed, fleshy, shortly spurred; lateral lobes erect, subquadrate, 
incurved, about 3.5 mm long; middle lobe much larger, pandu- 
rate, glabrous, retuse at the apex, convex above, auriculate on 
each side, about 12.5 mm long, 12.5 mm wide, with 4 more or 
less obscure raised nerves above, at the throat of the spur with 
two raised papillse; spur small, compressed, about 4 mm long. 
Column very short and stout, much swollen laterally at the base. 
Pollinia 4, unequal, obliquely ellipsoid. Capsules oblong-obovoid, 
deeply ridged, about 10 cm long, 2.5 cm in diameter. 
Luzon, Manila, Bureau of Science orchid house, Bur. Sci. 
80832 Quisumbing, August 25, 1930. The living plants were 
originally collected from the forests of Cabuyao, Atimonan, 
Tayabas Province, growing on trees, similar in habit to Vanda 
luzonica Loher. 
The sepals and petals pinard yellow washed and stained half 
way to the apex and at the base with carmine or nopal red, 
striations of the same color in the middle. The lateral lobes of 
the labellum white with purple dots; middle lobe reed yellow, 
washed with dragon’s blood red, the four raised nerves purple, 
the auricles dotted with pomegranate purple. Column and an¬ 
ther white with purple dots. 
The native collectors, because of the habit of the plant, er¬ 
roneously called it “Vanda luzonica.” 
This magnificent species belongs in the group with Vanda 
tricolor Lindl., but differing in the color of the flowers and in 
the shape of the labellum, etc. Its closest Philippine relative 
is Vanda luzonica Loher from which it can be distinguished not 
only by the general habit, but also by the form, size, and color 
of the flowers. Vanda truncata J. J. Sm., from Dutch New Gui¬ 
nea, is apparently a closely allied species, which differs chiefly 
in the shorter, few-flowered racemes and dissimilar floral mark¬ 
ings. 
