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I. Auther one only. 



A. Pollen-masses waxy. 



(«) No caudicula or separable stigmatic gland. 



Tribe I. MALAXED or MALAXILEj:. 

 {h) A distinct caudicula, but no separate stigmatic gland. 



Tribe II. EPIDENDkE.i:. 

 (<•) A distinct caudicula, united to a deciduous stigmatic gland. 



Tribe III. VANDE.E. 



B. Pollen powdery, granular or sectile. 

 (rt) Anther terminal, erect. 



Tribe IV. OFUHE^ or OI'URYDEJE. 

 {h) Antlier terminal, opercular (lid-like). 



Tribe V. ARETHUSE.E. 

 ((') Anther dorsal. 



Tribe YI. KEOTTEJE. 



II. Anthers two. 



Tribe ATI. CYPRIPEDEJ:. 



The above arrangement is that followed here. 



Quite recently, however, Bentham has propounded a greatly modified arrange- 

 ment in his " Notes on Orchideae," read before the Linncan Society, January 20, 

 1881 : and these are available now by all students of tlie order. If my arrangement 

 liad not been already made before I was favoured with a copy of the "Notes," or 

 time had been sufficient, I should have been disposed to adopt their arrangement ; but, 

 as things are, the old arrangement must stand. I have, indeed, made one change, 

 but it is only of a word or "term." I liave adopted Bentham's term "stipes^' ior 

 the appendage of the pollinia of Vaiule<r ; retaining Lindley's term " caudicle " for 

 that of Ejiidi'/idrece, as the former botanist has pointed out the need of a distinctive 

 term for an organ which is so essentially different " both in origin and .substance." 

 I say I have adopted the term here because it comes recommended on such high 

 authority, though I cannot consider the choice of the word a very happy one for so 

 delicate and transparent an organ as is, nearly always, the appendage of Vandeous 

 pollinia. The word "stipes" conveys the idea of a stocky or stuiiip;/ support, as 

 opposed to a slender and fragile one. " Stipitibus dun's agitur, sudibusque praeustis," 

 says Virgil, when he would describe a " eertamen agreste " — 



" One with a brand yet burning from the flame, 

 Armed with a kiiofti/ club another came." — Dnjclen. 



Sfipitis hie graridi "noclis." — As applied to a fern-.stock it is suitable, for even if 

 that be slender, it is, at least, the stoutest part of the frond ; but hardly, I submit, to 

 so delicate an organ as that in question. This is the reason I venture to object to 

 " stipes " in this application. It may indeed be difficult to find an appropriate term 

 that has not been already applied elsewhere, but I cannot see why there should be 

 any objection to " lii/it/ci," though it be used of the prolongation of a grass-sheath, 

 for it is tolerably descriptive of the characters of the little Yaiideous tongue or strap. 

 Or, if tliat word be objected to, I would submit that a simple word like "liciamentuitP' 

 might be considered free from objection. 



As these introductory remarks, however, have already reached a length not 

 originally contemplated, it is time to conclude them. This I will do with a few 

 words about books. 



Although any one who should take up tlie study of Orchids in Burma now will 

 find more help to his hand than was accessible twenty years ago, there is. at tlie 

 same time, no one single work published which describes all known Burmese 

 Orchids. The notices of them are scattered here and there in different publications, 

 as, for instance, in the Botanical Magazine, and in The Gardeners' Chronicle. 



