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THE ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



By 



G. A. Gammie, f.l.s. 



Part V. (With Plate IV.) 



{Continued from page 941 of Volume XVII of this Journal.) 



The next Tribe to be dealt with is the Vandece, of which the general 

 characters have already been given on p. 433 (Vol. XVI). 

 It contains the majority of our finest and most showy orchids. 



A. Pseudobulbs subterranean, rotund, scapes rising from the surface 

 of the ground. Leaves usually developed some time after the flowers 

 have withered. 



12. Eulophia. 



B. On trees. Leaves long, strap-shaped, in dense masses; racemes 

 long, pendulous, flowers moderately large. 



13. Cymbidium. 



C. A ground orchid. Leaves alternate, plaited, flowers white 

 or pink in a dense, curved raceme. 



14. Geodorum. 



D. Epiphyte. Leaves distichous, sheathing petioles compressed, 

 flowers small, yellow, in a cluster at the top of the scape. 



15. Polystachya. 



E Epiphyte. Stems and leaves quill like. Flowers rather small, 

 dark coloured, in short spikes. 



16. Luisia. 



F. Epiphytes. Leaves 2-ranked, strap-shaped, often longitudinally 

 folded inwards, flowers showy in racemes or panicles. 



17. Cottonia. Flowers at the top of a very long stalked raceme. 

 Lip simulating a bee. 



18. Rhynchostylis. Racemes of pink flowers, densely cylindrical, 

 pendulous. 



19. Brides. Flowers rose-coloured, in more loosely arranged 

 racemes, which occasionally develop branches, thus becoming panicles 

 in well-grown examples. 



20. Vanda. In one form, flowers large, with brown tessellated 



