210 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 6,000 to 8,000 feet; in flower during November; 
C. B. Clarke. Pantling No. 20. Bhotan; Gammie and Lister. 
This so closely resembles A. Cathcartii that the two are indistinguishable except 
when in flower. The leaves of this are slightly firmer than those of A. Cathcartit. 
The colour of the posterior surface of all the pieces of the perianth is white; that 
of the anterior is gamboge-yellow with broad but unequal rich chestnut-brown bands, 
the lip being horizontally striped with the same tint of brown. The column is white» 
speckled in front and flushed behind with pink; the anther is yellow, but its apex 
is tipped with pink. 
Puare 279.— Arachnanthe Clarkei, Rolfe. Part of а plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 lip, 2 stalked 
ovary, column with anther in sifu, and lip, З section of lip to show the infundibuliform hollow in 
its substance, 4 column with anther and stigma, 5 pollinia with caudicle (c) and gland (g), 6 the same 
from behind, 7 empty anther—all enlarged, 8 fruit; of natural sise. 
9. ARACHNANTHE BILINGUIS, Benth. in Benth. and Hook. fil Gen. 
Plantar. ІП, 573. 
Stem stout, woody, enveloped in the bases of fallen leaves, probably pendulous. 
Leaves coriaceous, keeled, close together, linear-oblong, blunt, unequally bilobed, not 
narrowed at the sheathing base, 6 to 9 in. long and about '8 in. broad. Raceme as 
long as or longer than the leaves, sometimes branching; the peduncle and rachis 
slender, the latter with distant short tubular sheaths. Flowers distant, "85 to 1:5 in. 
across; floral bract broad, blunt, scarious, much shorter than the peduncled ovary, 
Sepals sub-equal, oblong-oblanceolate, blunt. Petals slightly smaller, oblong, acute. Lip 
shorter than the petals, sagittate in general outline, shortly clawed, the basal auricles 
shallow; the blunt apex with a large papilla just behind it on the under surface, and 
a blunt recurved cylindric spur between the papilla and the base, the spur equal in 
length to the column; upper surface convex, with six narrow pink ridges. Column stout, 
curved, Anther conical, its apex blunt; pollinia globose, attached to the apex of a 
triangular caudicle, the gland very thick. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 28. Renanthera 
bilinguis, Reichb, fib, Xenia Orchid. I, 7, t. 4. В. айога, Reichb. = L e 88. 
Arrhynchium labrosum, Têk in Paxt. Fl. Gard. I, 42. 
Bhotan near the Sikkim frontier in the Rumpti Valley at а low elevation; J. L. 
Lister, Pantling, No. 183; in flower during August. Khasia Hills; Assam, Simons. 
The sepals and petals are pale yellow with dark brown markings; the lip, at first 
white, afterwards becomes yellow and has pink lines on its ridges and — blotches 
of the same colour on its basal auricles. 
Prate 280.—Arachnanthe bilinguis, Benth. A plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bract, 
stalked ovary, column with anther in sifu, and lip with its spur, 8 section of lip, 4 pollinia; ай 
enlarged. 
48. Жгідеѕ, Lour. 
Epiphytie, with leafy stems. Leaves coriaceous, linear or terete. Flowers usually 
. numerous and brightly coloured, in decurved racemes, sometimes solitary; the floral bract 
M minute. Sepals and petals broad, spreading, the lateral sepals adnate to the base or 
із foot of the column, Lip adnate to the column, spurred; the side lobes large or small, 
