. Orchids: their culture and management. Orchids. AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 59 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).
. Orchids: their culture and management. Orchids. AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 59 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.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson, William, 1858-1925; Chapman, H. J. , ed. London, L. U. Gill; New York, C. Scribner's sons
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