306 MR. G. BENTHAH ON OUCHIDEiE. 



Tainia, Blume {Ania, Lindl.), six or seven Indo-Malayan species, 

 appears to me to be a well-defined genus, connecting in some 

 measure Erieae with Bletieae, but much nearer to the latter, both 

 in habit and in pollen. Reichenbach, however, refers Ania angus- 

 tifolict, Lindl., to Pacliystoma, and the other species to Eria 

 itself, upon grounds which I have failed to discover. The ori- 

 ginal T. speciosa, Blume, diners from all the other species in the 

 long setiform tails to the sepals and petals. 



Anthogonium, Lindl., a single Himalayan and Burmese species, 

 is remarkable in the subtribe for the deficiency of the upper 

 smaller series of pollen-masses ; but the habit, inflorescence, and 

 some other characters, besides the stature, prevent the transfer- 

 ring it to Laelieae. 



Subtribe 7. Ccslogyke^e. — The genera collected in this sub- 

 tribe are perhaps not very well connected with each other, and 

 the character of the subtribe is not so definite as might be wished, 

 yet none of the genera appear to be more nearly related to any 

 one of any other subtribe. The pollen-masses, four or eight, are 

 usually clustered, tapering into points or short caudicles, as in 

 Liparidese and Erieae, but are often more compressed than in those 

 subtribes, and sometimes as much so as in Lselieas ; they are often 

 connected by a more or less distinct granular appendage, or more 

 frequently after dehiscence by more or less of viscum, sometimes 

 even consolidated into a gland. The inflorescence, always termi- 

 nating the leaf-bearing stem, separates them well from Erieae ; and 

 although in a few species the flower appears at the end of a stiff, 

 leafless stem, or pseudobulb, it is because the leaves are pro- 

 duced at a later season, and can only be seen when the specimen 

 is already in ripe fruit, or even still more advanced. The dis- 

 tinction from Liparideae is not so easily expressed in words, 

 although each of the four or five groups in which the subtribe 

 may be divided is marked by some special character in foliage, 

 inflorescence, or structure which does not occur in Liparideae ; 

 and in Lindley's arrangement the genera were mostly placed in 

 EpidendreaB, or in Vandeae, not in Malaxideae. They are all 

 natives of the Indo- Australian and South-Pacific region, with the 

 exception of Calanthe, which is very sparingly represented in 

 Africa and tropical America, and Elleanthus, which is exclusively 

 American. 



As a first group we have two genera with small flowers in a 

 pedunculate, more or less branched panicle, both of them with four 



