110 CXLVIII. oROHIDEE, (J.D. Hooker)  [Corallorhiza. 
. . . ed. 
raceme. Sepals and petals subequal, linear; petals ascending, incurv 
Lip clawed, adnate to the base of the column, erect, entire or 3-lobed, SP. 
minute or 0. Column erect, incurved ; anther 4-celled ; pollinia 4, ovoid, 
soft, cohering by a viscus.—Species about 12, in N. temperate regions. 
C. innata, Brown in Hort. Kew v. 209; scape slender fou TN 
flowers subsessile, bracts minute, lip 3-lobed, side lobes narrow, mi 490 
retuse. Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 533; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 4% 
C. Jacquemonti, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 165, t. 165. 
KASHMIR, Jacquemont.— Dis TRIB, Europe, N. Asia, N. America. 
Scape 6-10 in., slender; sheaths lax ; flowers 4 in. long ; sepals ovate lanceolate, 
lateral deflexed ; lip (in European specimens) whitish with purple blotches. 
8. DENDROBIUM, Swartz. 
Epiphytes; stems elongate or pseudobulbous. Leaves mE ples 
Flowers racemose, often large and handsome. Sepals subequal, abt 
obliquely adnate to the foot of the column, and forming with it 1 iat 
mentum. Lip contracted at the base, rarely clawed, adnate to and 1 a or 
bent on the foot of the column, side lobes embracing the co pests 
spreading or 0, terminal narrow or broad, flat, convex, concave or e à me 
disk often lamellate. Column short, foot long or short, top pii imt: 
2-toothed ; anther 2-celled; pollinia 4, free, ovoid or oblong, cori Asiatic, 
closely collateral in pairs in each cell.— Species about 300, Tropica 
Australasian and Polynesian. 
: : intri- 
The following attempt to arrange the Indian species of this vast and ve] ini 
cate genus into definable groups is open to much criticism in detail. It ha 
: i hose 
many months of labour, and it must stand or fall according to the verdict of t 
who may use it. 
inal 
Series I. Inflorescence terminal (that is, from the base of a hern 
arrested internode), or both terminal and lateral. (See also some spe 
of sect. Aporum ; lateral in Formosa. 
; a 
Sect. I. SARCOPODIUM. Pseudobulbs short, erect, uninodal, seated singly vent. 
stout creeping rhizome. Leaves 2, terminal, opposite, coriaceous, flat, T edium- 
Flowers solitary from between the leaves, or on a 1—few-fld. scape, large or 
sized ; mentum short, rounded.— Habit of Bulbophyllum, sect. Sestochilus. tufted, 
Sect. II. Botpopium. Pseudobulbs erect, as in Sarcopodium, but meh sistent. 
clavate and stipitate. Leaves 2, terminal, opposite, coriaceous, flat, Pe nentum 
Flowers solitary or few from between the leaves, medium-sized, white ; 
large, longer than the lateral sepals, conical, incurved. . hains of 
Sect. III. CADETIA. Stem branched, pendulous, branches forming cous at, 
uninodal sessile or stipitate pseudobulbs. Leaf solitary, terminal, co hte or pa e; 
persistent. Flowers 1-2 from the base of the leaf, medium-sized, w^! 
mentum short or elongate. bulb, 
Sect. IV. STACHYOBIUM. Stems tufted, forming a small polynodal peenis any, 
or more or less elongate, often compressed, simple or branched. «n slender tef* 
narrow, membranous, deciduous or persistent. Flowers solitary, OF “nites mentu 
minal or terminal and lateral racemes, small or medium-sized, often M t keel on t 
rather long, conical, incurved, or short and obtuse ; lip with often a Da ll species 
disk that terminates in a truncate crenate callus on the midlobe.— Sma 
this section resemble Eria, sect. Bryobium. berect, ofte" 
Sect. V. FoRMosx. Stems rather. short, tufted, leafy, usually su É large 
with deciduous black hairs ou the sheaths. Flowers solitary or racemose, 
