170 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JuNnE, 1922. 
collector Micholitz, who probably obtained it in the same locality from 
whence he sent home Cymbidium Sanderz, Sanderi, erythrostylum, etc- 
It surpasses both the preceding in the size and brilliant colouring of its 
flowers. Unfortunately, it is extremely rare in cultivation. A few odd 
Orchids, unnamed and unclassified, were sent by Micholitz to the St. 
Albans Nursery to grow and prove themselves. They were seen by Sir 
Fred. Moore, of Glasnevin, who acquired a few speculatively—and it is a 
speculation to acquire unflowered Vandaceous plants, for so many have the 
unhappy faculty of eventually proving themselves to be species of Acampe, 
Sarcanthus, or other similarly small flowered kinds that are possibly 
interesting, but not showy. In the following year, 1905, from among the 
plants purchased, Arachnanthe annamensis flowered, new, large, and- 
handsome beyond comparision with the known species. It is figured 
in the Orchid World (vol. ii., 267), and the photograph shows well the habit. 
The inflorescence, carried well above the plant, bears eight to ten flowers, 
which, in colour, may be likened to a brilliant form of A. Clarkei, but more 
tiger-like in marking and much superior in size. The upper sepal stands 
erect, the two lower, curved similarly to, and not unlike a scimitar in shape, 
approach each other at their apices. The petals curve upward and then 
downward, while the lip, much smaller than in A. Clarkei, and more 
contracted and pointed, is whitish, marked with purple, and insignificant 
compared with the other segments. 
Very much resembling A. annamensis in shape, but with smaller 
flowers, a quite different floral coloration, and modification in the lip, is 
A. moschifera, a species distributed through Malaya. The sepals and 
petals are greenish white, blotched rather than barred with dark red, the lip 
rose tipped. The flowers are highly odorous of musk, but not disagreeably 
so. As in A. Clarkei, the flowers are produced In succession, but more than 
one is open at the same time. These two species might well constitute @ 
section different to the two preceding. 
ae yet a third section could be made to include two other species met 
with in cultivation and which certainly rank among the most wonderful of 
he Orhacee, A Lovina in compliment to Sir Hugh Low 
arawak about the middle of the last century. A giant 
among Orchids. Under cultivation it will attain a height of from ten to 
re on Paes broad = green leaves twenty-four to thirty 
pone , pper surfaces of which acquire a peculiar brown-purple 
tint in summer which usually fades in the dull months. From such 4 
robust growing plant, and judging by the other species, a huge panicled 
inflorescence might be anticipated, but, on the contrary, the comparatively 
short, stiff spikes of the preceding members give place to a long flexuous 
pendent raceme, three to four yards long, bearing alternate flowers about 
