€2 ON THE VEGETATION OF MALAYSIA, 



America, and the Cape of Good Hope. They have a large 

 number of genera, the most notable of which are Denchohmm (a 

 very large genus generally belonging to Malaysia, the majority 

 with purple or yellow flowers, some remarkably showy and some 

 of delightful fragrance) ; Dendrocldlum (a small Malaysian genus 

 on branches or trunks of trees, with bulb-like roots and a single 

 shiny leaf and long spikes of small white and yellow flowers, some 

 like lilies of the valley and very graceful) ; Aporum (flowers small 

 and of no great beauty) ; Bolhoinhyllum (a large genus of small 

 size on trees or rambling on the ground amongst mosses, with one 

 leaf, a kind of bulb with small fleshy deeply-coloured flowers, in 

 dense spikes occasionally) ; Girrlioidetalum (another genus with 

 solitary leaves and pseudo-bulbs, with the lateral sepals of the 

 flowers prolonged into narrow streamers, hence the name) ; and 

 Eria (likewise a large genus with flowers sometimes remarkable 

 for their fragrance, but not of great beauty. It takes its name 

 from the Greek "epiov, wool, because many species have the 

 flowers clothed with white down). 



The Epidendre^ are epiphytes rarely having fleshy roots, con- 

 spicuous for large coloured membranaceous flowers, with a great 

 lip curved in like a hood, bearing fringes on its veins, and a broad 

 column. Pholidota with pseudo-bulbs or fleshy jointed rhizomes ; 

 Spatltoglottis a native of Malacca, China, India and the Philip- 

 pines, with a few pretty species of yellow and crimson ; Phaius 

 with large and showy flowers, spread over tropical and sub- 

 tropical Asia. P. grandifolius is found in Australia, and even 

 New South Wales, as well as Malaysia. Generally speaking the 

 EPiDENDREiE are tropical American. 



The tribe Vande^ are pretty equally divided between the 

 tropics of America and of the old world, and very rare elsewhere. 

 Amongst the most ornamental are Euloplda with a handsome crest 

 in elevated ridges on the labellum, and Vanda (the Sanskrit name 

 of the original species of this genus) with deliciously fragrant as 

 well as beautiful flowers. There are about a dozen, if not more, 

 Malaysian species in cultivation. Renanthera so-called from the 



