` Ophrydeæ.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 675 
Subtribe 2. HABENARIEE. 
105. HERMIRIUM. Lip not spurred. Low small-fld. herbs. 
106. HABENARIA. Lip spurred. Sepals equalling or exceeding the petals. 
Flowers spicate or racemose. Rostellum not elongate. 
_107. Drrerowrmis, Lip spurred. Sepals much smaller than the petals. Flowers 
solitary, large. 
108. HkwiPILIA. Lip spurred. Sepals larger than the petals. Leaf radical, 
solitary ; raceme few-fld. Rostellum very prominent. 
Subtribe 3. DisEz. i 
109. Saryrrum. Lip erect, 2.spurred. Flower spicate. 
Subtribe 4. CORYCIEÆ. 
110. DIsreris, Lateral s epals spurred or saccate. Lip not spurred, tip 2-lipped 
or variously dilated. | 
Trine V. Cypripediece. 
ll. CYPRIPEDIUM. Sepals spreading. Lip inflated. Anthers 2. Ovary 
1l-celled. Flowers large. P P 8 P 
112. Aposrasta, Sepals etals and Hp all similar. Anthers 2. Ovary 
3-celled. Flowers small. m P P . 
o 113. Neuwrepra. Sepals and petals similar. Lip rather broader. Anthers 3. 
vary 3-celled. Flowers small. 
TRIBE I. ErrpENDREE (see p. 667). 
1. OBERONIA, Lindl. 
t Tufted epiphytes. Leaves distichous, equitant, ensiform (very rarely 
erete). Flowers very minute in dense subcylindric spikes or racemes. 
co als broadly ovate or:oblong, subequal. Petals smaller. Lip sessile, 
neave, entire or 2-4-lobed. Columa very short; anther terminal, 1n- 
sumbent ; pollinia 4, waxy, cohering by a viscus.—Species about 60, 
Topical Asiatie, Australian and Pacific. 
mg flowers are generally 2 to each bract, which is lanceolate and free or broader 
owen’ or less convolute, sometimes very broad and forming a tube round both 
wets the upper flower has often a sheathing obtuse bracteole.—The genus wants 
careful study of living specimens. I am far from satisfied with the following 
elimitat; . : D ae . 
agno quon of species, the specimens being in some cases quite insufficient for a sure 
Osis, 
en oct. I. Oberonia proper. Stem very short, rarely 2-4 in. Leaves 
Storm, chiefly radical or subradical. Sepals subequal. 
* Side lobes or all the lobes of lip deeply toothed or laci» tate. 
l. ©. iridifoli ; d. 15: Fol Orchid. 
` a, Lindl. Gen. Sp. Orchid. 15; Fol. Orch 
peron, l; stem short, leaves 3-5 in. d osdly ensiform, spike long slender 
erved, flowers not whorled sessile, bracts broad erose convolute sheathing 
tip brad? petals oblong erose, lip more or less quadrate PH 
i Y 2-hd. Wall. Cat. 1948/2 (in part). Malaxis inidifolia, A eienó. f. 
m Walp. Ann. vi. 208. É l (in part) 
