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out in 1886. It also bears the names of Renanthera arachnites, Lindl., 
and R. Flos-aéris, Rchb. f. It is a native of Java, Borneo, and the Malay 
Peninsula, occurring at moderate elevations, and hence it requires the 
temperature of the East Indian house, and a moderately shady position. 
Several other species subsequently appeared, and their nomenclature 
has been much confused, but when in 1886 Reichenbach described a new 
species from New Guinea, under the name of Arachnis Beccarii, he included 
five others in the genus besides the original one, these being A. Hookeriana 
(Renanthera Rchb. f.), a native of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, A. 
labrosa (Arrhynchium, Lindl.), from the Khasia Hills and Burma, A. 
Sulingii (Aérides, Blume), from Java, A. Lowii (Vanda, Lindl.), from 
Borneo, and A. Rohaniana (Renanthera, Rchb. f.), from Borneo, the 
latter, however, now believed to be only a former of A. Lowii. Four 
additions have subsequently been made, namely, A. Maingayi, Schltr. 
(Arachnanthe, Hook. f.), from the Malay Peninsula, A. alba, Schltr. 
(Renanthera, Ridl.)—which, however, is synonymous with the Bornean 
A. Hookeriana—A. Muelleri, J. J. Smith (Vanda, Kranzl.), from New 
Guinea, and.A. breviscapa, J. J. Smith, from Borneo. And there is one 
other striking thing, nearly allied to the original species of the genus, 
namely, A. annamensis (Arachnanthe annuamensis, Rolfe, in Gard. Chron., 
1905, i. p. 391), which was introduced by Messrs. Sander & Sons from 
Annam, and flowered at Glasnevin, in June, 1905. R.A.R. 
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Cympipium HumBLotu.—A magnificent specimen of Cymbidium 
Humblotii was exhibited at the meeting of the Manchester & North of 
England Orchid Society, held on July 2oth last, from the collection of 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, for which the gardener, Mr. E. 
Rogers, received a First-class Cultural Certificate and a Silver Medal, in 
recognition of its excellent culture. It bore a branched panicle of seventy 
flowers and buds, over fifty of which were expanded. The species was 
described nearly 25 years ago (Rolfe, in Gard. Chron., 1892, ii. p. 8), the 
occasion being the flowering of a plant in the collection of C. Ingram, Esq., 
of Godalming, to which a Botanical Certificate was awarded by the R.H.S., 
this proving identical with a dried specimen collected in Madagascar by M. 
Leon Humblot, after whom the species was named. M. Warpur, who 
afterwards collected it there, states that it grows on the stems of the palm, 
Rhopala madag iensis. The plant has creeping, rhizomatous, woody 
stems, with numerous elongated leaves, and large branching panicles of 
numerous green flowers, with black markings on the lip, in this respect 
resembling Ceelogyne pandurata. It isa striking species when well grown, 
but is rare in cultivation, though Messrs. Charlesworth obtained some 
plants of it a few years ago.—R.A.R. 
