to Arachnanthe, adding to it Vanda Lowti (Tab. 5475) 
and the genera Arhynchium, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. 1. 
p- 142 (Renanthera bilinguis, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. i. 
p- 88 and 240, t.4), and Ammodorum, Breda (Aerides Sculingi, 
Blume). To these there is to be added a very fine species 
_ discovered by the late Dr. Maingay in Malacca, and which 
I propose to call A. Maingayi. It has flowers two inches 
in diameter, in spreading panicles sometimes three feet 
long, and broadly obovate lateral sepals; its colours are 
_ not recorded, but it is no doubt well worth cultivation. 
Arachnanthe Clarkei was discovered by the indefatigable 
botanist whose labours it commemorates, in the Sikkim 
Himalaya at an elevation of 6000 feet (not 8000, as stated 
by Reichenbach). There are two beautiful figures of it 
made in Sikkim in a collection of Orchid drawings kindly 
_ lent by Dr. King, of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens; a- 
_ third of a flower alone, in the Kew collection of drawings, 
was made by the late Dr. Jerdon, and marked as from 
Bhotan and the Khasia Hills (the latter I should think 
very doubtful) ; a fourth occurs in a collection of drawings 
(also belonging to the Calcutta Botanical Gardens) made 
by the late Mr. Simons in the Bhotan Hills. The specimen 
figured flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in September 
of last year, and was received from Mr. Pantling, who 
collected it in Sikkim.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column; 3, anther; 4 ana 5, pollinia, with their remarkable 
strap :—all enlarged. 
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