Tab. 7077. 
ARACHNANTHE Cuarkxet. 
Native of the Bastern Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDE®.—Tribe VANDEZ. 
Genus AracHNANTHE, Blume ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 572.) 
Aracuynantue Clarkei; caule subcompresso, foliis loratis apice 2-lobis lobis 
rotundatis, pedunculo foliis breviore robusto 2-3-flore vaginis appressis, 
floribus amplis aurantiacis cinnamomeo fasciatis, sepalo dorsali erecto 
elongato lineari sursum sensim ampliato obtuso, lateralibus petalisque 
consimilibus sed falcato-decurvis, labelli pallide cinnamomei aurantiaco 
striati breviter unguiculati lobis lateralibus rotundatis incurvis, terminali 
subquadrato 8-fido, disco lamellato 7-9-carinato. 
A. Clarkei, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. ii. p. 567. 
Esmeralda Clarkei, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron, 1886, vol. ii. p. 552. 
Vanda Clarkei, NV. EF. Br. in Kew Bull. 1888, p. 112. 
The genus Arachnanthe was established by Blume in 
his beautiful work, ‘“‘ Rumphia,” where it replaces his 
older name of Arachnis, published in the Bijdragen, which 
he proposed for the Hpidendrum Flos Aeris of Linneus, 
and to which he gave the name of Arachnis moschifera. 
The latter is a magnificent Orchid supposed to be a native 
of Japan, being figured in Keompfer’s Ameoenitates 
(p. 868), but which is more probably only cultivated in 
that archipelago. It has been collected in Borneo, Java, 
and inthe Malay Peninsula, at Perak, by the collectors sent 
by Dr. King from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. 
The nearest ally of A. Clarkei is A. Cathcarti (Benth. 
in Gen. Plant. iii. 578), the Vanda Cathearti, Hook. f., 
figured in this work (Tab. 5845), upon which Reichenbach 
founded the genus Hsmeralda, distinguishing it from Vanda 
by the lip being articulate with the column and mobile. 
T'o this character may be added the flat leaves of a flaccidly 
coriaceous consistence, and twisted at the base so as to > 
lie all in one place. In the true Vandas the leaves are, 
when not terete, typically rigidly coriaceous, recurved 
and keeled. Bentham was the first to reduce Hsmeralda 
SepremBeR Ist, 1889. 
