176 CXLVIII, ORCHIDEZ. (J.D. Hooker) [Neuwiedia. 
peduncle short, raceme short many-fid. and flowers pubescent, bracts 
4-3 in. erect. 
PENANG ; on West Hill, alt. 2000 ft., Curtis.—DisTRIB. Sumatra. 
Leaves as in N. Lindleyi, but peduncle and raceme very short, and bracts 
glandular-pubescent. 
3. N. Griffithii, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. ii, 215; peduncle short, 
spike short many-fld. and flowers subhispidly pubescent, bracts 4-1 in. 
Matacca, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1682). Perak, King’s Collector. 
Stem very short. Leaves 4-10 in., elliptic-lanceolate, finely acuminate, many- 
nerved, petioled. Raceme 2-3 in.; flowers white, very shortly pedicelled, } in. long, 
decurved. Capsule 4 in. long, turgid, trigonous. 
SUPPLEMENT TO ORCHIDEE, WITH ADDITIONS AND 
CORRECTIONS. 
During the elaboration of the Orchidee for this Flora, very large collections of 
species, from many parts of India, were being received at intervals by the Herbarium 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew, especially from the rich stores of the Royal Gardens of 
Calcutta, together with the loan of a magnificent series of original drawings of Orchids 
from thesame source. The most important of these collections were Malayan, abound- 
ing in novelties, from Penang, Perak, Singapore and Malacca, made by the late Father 
Scortechini (presented, together with the loan of the Rev. father’s pencil drawings 
of many species, by the Government of Perak), by Kunstler, a collector sent from 
the Caleutta Bot. Gardens by Dr. King, by Curtis, Hullett, Wray and Ridley. 
Important collections were also sent by Mann, from Assam, Bhotan, and the Khasia 
hills; by Gamble (on loan) from various parts of India ; by Duthie from Garwhal ; 
by Clarke from Sikkim, tbe Khasia hills, and Bengal, together with a few from 
Central India; and (on loan) by Dr. Trimen from Ceylon. "These successive arrivals 
necessitated many consecutiye revisions and emendations of the work already pre 
pared, some printed, some in the press, and some in mss., besides adding many 
species and some genera to the Indian Flora, 
Vol. v. p. 667. KEY To THE TRIBES AND SUBTRIBES. 
The Key to the Indian Genera Subtribes and Tribes was extracted, with a few 
modifications, from that prepared by Bentham for the Genera Plantarum; which, 
whether as regards the difficulties that attend the analysis of the plants of 
this most complicated Order, or the chaotic state into which the family had fallen 
since Lindley’s days, is a masterpiece of research and scientific taxonomy. As may 
be supposed, the detailed examination of so many Indian genera and species as are 
contained in this Flora (about 1400), and of alarge proportion of which Bentham had 
no knowledge, or only a superficial one, has suggested a few emendations in his 
classification, but these are very slight, and I shall notice them in their order, in the 
following pages. 
Sub-order MALAxEx. I have departed from Bentham, in including LIPARIEE 
and MALAXEx under one sub-order, The essential character of Lipariec, the 
incumbent anther, fails in a. great measure when Oberonia is placed in it, for the 
pollinia of this genus are as Griffith points out (Notul. iii. 273) in O. anthropophora 
and trilobata (ensiformis, Lindl.) at first accumbent ; and in these and others he 
describes them as ‘‘ accumbenti-ineumbentia," Added to this the habit of Micro- 
stylis, which is placed in Malazec, is that of Liparis; and of Oberonia, which 15 
placed in Lipariee, is that of Malaxis. The clinandrium is so minute in Oberonia 
and Microstylis, that I have little confidence in my own results obtained by softeniDg 
these parts in dried specimens, but my impression is that in Microstylis the anther 
will be found to both accumbent and incumbent, very much as in Oberonia. Lastly 
the pollinia of Oberonia are variously described and figured as 2 or 4. I think 
