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of the flower is whitish, and the white lip is streaked with red, 

 while the rounded sepals and petals are tawny yellow, banded with 

 red in such a way as to suggest the lines of a cobweb, and this 

 fanciful suggestion led to the generic title of Arachnanthe. 

 Another wonderful species is A. Lowii, a native of the coastal 

 forests of the Bornean province of Sarawak. It has flexuous spikes 

 from two feet to twelve feet long, and while the basal pair of 

 flowers on each spike are yellow, spotted with red-purple, all the 

 others (and there may be thirty or forty of them), are greenish 

 yellow, heavily and irregularly blotched with rich chocolate-red. 

 A. Cathcartii requires some support, and should be placed in 

 a pot or pan with a teak raft up which it may climb, and round 

 which it may twine its roots. Other interesting species are A. 

 Clarkei and A. moschifera. Many of the species have been 

 classed as Vandas and some as Esmeraldas. 



ARUNDINA 



The Arundinas are graceful, tall, terrestrial Orchids, very 

 much like, and succeeding under the same conditions as, the 

 Sobralias. They have beautiful, rosy flowers, with white and 

 yellow marks on the lip, but the plants take up a great deal of 

 room, and are seldom eff"ective or useful for general culture. A. 

 bambusjefolia and A. philippinensis are the principal species. 



ASPASIA 



A foot or less in height, Aspasia lunata produces its green 

 and white, brown-spotted flowers in racemes, during early spring. 

 It is a pretty little Orchid that an amateur might well take some 



