ORCHID SPECIES 



Madagascar growing on small shrubs, which form the undergrowth of the 

 dense forest along the swampy coast. 



The small white flowers of a delicate semi-transparent texture 

 suggested the specific name, which is from the Greek, meaning " crystal." 



ANGR^CUM KOTSCHYI, Rchb. f. 



Bchb. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiv. pp. 456 and 693, fig. ; id. 1884, vol. xxii. p. 712 ; 

 Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 133 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7442. 



Discovered in 1838 by Theodor Kotschy, after whom it is named, and 

 subsequently met with by several other travellers. 



In 1876 it was found by the German Hildebrandt on the coast of Zan- 

 zibar, and three years later living plants were sent by Sir John Kirk, the 

 British Consul at Zanzibar, to Mr. Gerald Walker, from whom we acquired 

 them. It flowered for the first time at Chelsea in the autumn of 1880. 



ARACHNANTHE CATHCARTII, Benth. 



Syns. Vanda Cathcartii, Lindl. ; Esmeralda Cathcartii, Rchb. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5845 ; Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 1409, with fig. ; PI. Mag. n.s. t. 66; Veitchs' 

 Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 7, fig. opposite p. 8. 



A native of shady valleys in the Eastern Himalayas, where it was first 

 detected by Sir Joseph Hooker, by whom it was sent to the Calcutta 

 Botanic Gardens. Repeated attempts were made to introduce plants to 

 England with more or less success, and it flowered the first time in this 

 country in our houses in March 1870. 



The species is dedicated to the memory of Mr. James F. Cathcart, of 

 the Indian Civil Service, an ardent amateur naturalist, and one of the 

 earliest explorers of the rich flora of the Eastern Himalayas. 



ARACHNANTHE LOWII, Benth. 



Syns. Vanda Lowii, Lindl. ; Renanthera Lowii, Echb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1858, p. 175 ; id. 1847, p. 239; Bot. Mag. t. 5475; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. 

 pt. vii. p. 12, fig. ; Orchid Review, 1904, vol. xii. p. 283. 



Discovered in Sarawak by Sir Hugh Low, in whose honour it was 

 named by Dr. Lindley, but first flowered in this country from specimens 

 sent by Thomas Lobb in 1858. It was later collected by Curtis in the 

 low swampy forests near the coast of Sarawak. 



The plant is remarkable for the enormous length of its racemes and for 

 the occurrence of two kinds of flowers on the same inflorescence. 



BRASSIA ARCUIGERA, Bchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 389. 



A Peruvian orchid described by Professor Reichenbach from material 

 introduced by us : an insignificant species of botanical interest only, and 

 apparently not now in cultivation. 



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