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Vanda.] CXXXVI. ORCHIDElE. 159<br />
tips enlarged, midlobe oblong-obovate, white or rose dotted crimson,<br />
spur very short, callus conic white. Column with a long foot.<br />
Hab. Local. Scrambling over bushes in open swamps. Johor,<br />
Kwala Batu Pahat (Kelsall). Perak, Kinta valley (all collectors).<br />
Distrib. Borneo.<br />
The" Kmta weed."<br />
60. ARACHNIS, Bl.<br />
Stems very long scandent. Leaves linear-oblong blunt. Inflorescence<br />
large panicled. Sepals and petals spreading spathulate,<br />
lower ones incurved. Lip much shorter articulate at. base of<br />
column, side-lobes broad truncate, midlobe tongue-shaped, base<br />
of lip between side-lobes shortly spurred. Species about 5,<br />
Malayan.<br />
Flowers yellow and brown, lower sepals falcate . • (1) A. moschifera<br />
Flowers salmon pink, lower sepals not falcate . • (2) A. Maingayi<br />
Flowers white, smaller, lower sepals not falcate. • (3) A. alba<br />
(I) A. moschifera Bl. 13tjdr. 365, t. 26. Arachnanthe moschifera<br />
Bl. Rumphza, iv. t. 196, 199. Renanthera arachnitis Lindl.<br />
Gen. and Sp. Orch. Pl. 217; Rldl. Mat. i. ISS.<br />
Stems 20 to 30 ft. tall. Leaves 6 in. long, 1'5 in. wide, stiff.<br />
Panicles several feet long. Flowers 3 in. wide, tip of upper sepal<br />
musk-scented. Upper sepal linear-oblong spathulate, laterals<br />
shorter falcate. Petals linear abruptly falcate, yellow blotched<br />
chocolate. Lip'5 in. long, side-lobes quadrate yellow or white<br />
splashed red, edges purple brown, midlobe oblong cuneate pink<br />
with a large conic acute callus near tip. Hab. Selangor, Port<br />
Swettenham (Williams). Perak, Ulu Bubong (Kunstler). Penang,<br />
rocks at Ayer Hitam (Haniff). Dislrtb. Java, Borneo. Native<br />
names: Angrek Bunga Kasturi; Scorpion orchid.<br />
(2) A. Maingayi Schlechter, Fedde Rep. x. 197. Arachnanthe<br />
Maingayi Hook. fil. F.B.I. vi. 28. Renanthera Maingayi Ridl. ]oum.<br />
Linn. Soc. xxxii. 353.<br />
Stems as A. moschtfera, but leaves thinner and more flaccid,<br />
5 in. long, 1'5 in. wide. Sepals linear, laterals not falcate, 1'5 in.<br />
long. Petals broadly dilate short at tip. 1\11 mottled and barred<br />
salmon-pink and white. Lip side-lobes rounded spreading, midlobe<br />
oblong, tip ovate pink striped with darker, and yellow blotches<br />
on side-lobes. Hab. Johor, Batu Pahat (Kelsall). Malacca (Maingay)<br />
.. Distrib. Islands south of Singapore.<br />
Commonly cultivated in gardens.<br />
(3) A. alba Schlechter, Fedde Rep. x. 197. Arachnanthe alba<br />
Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 369. Renanthera alba Ridl. ]of-trn. Linn.<br />
Soc. xxxii. 353. R. HQokeriana Rchb. fil. Xen. Orch. ii. 42.<br />
Stems IS to 20 ft.· tall. Leaves lorate blunt hard brittle often<br />
toothed at base, 3 in. long, l'S in. wide. Panicles long. Flowers
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