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Arachnanthe. 



is pale yellow, but it is almost covered with transverse hands 

 of reddish-brown. The lip is three-lobed, white, tinged with 

 red on the side lobes, the margin of the middle lobe being 

 yellow and curiously incurved. Sir Joseph Hooker, who dis- 

 covered this Orchid, says that it inhabits hot valleys in the 

 Eastenr Himalayas, and is usually found in the neighbourhood 

 of waterfalls. Svns. Vanda Catlicarfii, Esiiwro/da Cathcartii. 

 (Fig. 18; B. M.,'t. 5845-) 



Fig. 18. Flower of Arachna^'the Cathcartii 



(nat. si/e). 



A. Clarkei {Rolfe). — Flowers much as in A. Cathcartii. 

 .Sepals and petals dark brown, barred with ochre, yellowish 

 inside, cuneate-oblong, obtuse ; lip whitish, marked with brown, 

 three-lobed, with a conical, acute spur ; the front lobe cordate, 

 oblong-elliptic, with a rough, lobulate border, and seven to nine 

 whitish keels ; the mouth of the spur covered by two rctrorse 

 crests, with another crest in the front. Himalayas, 1SS6. 

 Syn. Vanda Clarkfi. (B. M., t. 7077.) 



