126 F, Fedde: Species novas in Gardeners' Chronicle etc. 
on both sides with a very short, spreading, and rather indistinct pubes- 
cence, dark green, shining. Cyme terminal, compound, 3—4 inches or 
more in diameter, flat topped, with the main branches 1—1!/, inch long, 
pubescent, green. Bracts 1—2 lines long, subulate, pubescent. Pedicels 
'/,—11/, line long, pubescent, green. Calyx divided to the base into 
4—5 lanceolate, acuminate lobes, */, inch long, about 3/, line broad, 
pubescent, light green. Corolla-tube !/, inch long, obtusely 4—7 angled 
at the enlarged base, light green, pubescent; limb ?/, inch in diameter, 
with 4—7 widely-spreading lobes 3—31/, lines long, 1!/,—2 lines broad, 
oblong, very obtuse, with a terminal awn !/, line long, rich bright yellow, 
slightly darker at the centre, pubescent on the back. Stamens in two 
rows, included, glabrous; filaments !/, line long. Hypogynous glands 
2 lines long, filiform, acute, yellowish-green, glabrous. Carpels included, 
lanceolate, tapering into slender styles 3/,—1 lin. long, green. 
Angola: (John Gossweiler). 
12. Arachnanthe annamensis Rolfe, l. c., p. 391. 
A stout, erect plant about 18 inches high. Leaves somewhat recurved, 
linear-oblong, somewhat bilobed at the apex, coriaceous, 11 inches long 
by an inch broad, bright green. Inflorescence over a foot long, six- 
flowered in the upper half. Bract ovate-oblong, obtuse, 5 lines long. 
Pedicels 14 lines long, suffused with light pink. Flowers much resemb- 
ling Arachnanthe moschifera in shape and appearance. Dorsal sepal sub- 
spatulate-oblong, sub-acute, over 2'/, inches long by 5 lines broad at the 
apex, very heavily barred with red-brown on a yellow ground. Lateral 
sepals spatulate-oblong, sub-obtuse, falcate and approximate at the apex, 
1*/, inch long by 7 lines broad at the apex, coloured like the dorsal. 
Petals spatulate-oblong, sub-obtuse, strongly falcate, 1! inch long by 
!/; inch broad at the apex, coloured like the sepals. Lip mobile, strongly 
3-lobed, about 10 lines long. Side lobes triangular, acute, ineurved, and 
nearly meeting at the apex, over ! inch long, light yellow striped with 
red-brown, the basal angle lilac. Front lobe fleshy, compressed and keeled, 
with an oblong auricle over a line long on either side of the base, bi- 
fureate at the apex, the lower tooth short and fleshy, a line long, the 
upper subulate, acute, suberect, 3 lines long; base of the front lobe light 
yellow, rest red-purple; crest consisting of an erect, oblong, dorsally- 
compressed eallus, 2 lines long, situated at the base of the front lobe, 
and terminating in a short, aeute tooth at either angle, white with a few 
purple spots at the apex. Column very stout, 5 lines long, lilac-purple 
in front and at base behind, reddish-purple at the apex. 
Annam: (Micholitz). 
