Eulophia Sect. Hulophidium (Pfitz.) H. Perr. 
in Bull. Soe. Bot. Fr. 82: 147, 19385. 
Lissochilus Subgen. Hulophidium (Pfitz.) H. 
Perr. in Humbert, Fl. Madag. Orch. 2: 17, 
1941. 
Type: Angraecum maculatum Lindl.—Pfitz. did. 
Sepals and petals variously spreading; lip 8-lobed, 
basally produced in a spur, midlobe commonly lobulate 
or emarginate; disc either with a pair of approximate, 
quadrate or triangular calli at the entrance to the spur 
or with three variously thickened, parallel ridges which 
together with the lateral veins are sparsely but distinctly 
papillose or hirsute; column erect, rather short, oblique 
at base; stigmata confluent; rostellum short; anther 
cucullate to cristate; pollinia 2, on a short or rudimen- 
tary stipe; viscidium large. 
Pseudobulbs more or less approximate, heteroblastic, 
one- to three-leaved at apex; leaves coriaceous, condu- 
plicate, never plicate, commonly petiolate, rarely sessile, 
articulate with colliferous apex of pseudobulbs; inflores- 
cence lateral, racemose or paniculate; bracts inconspicu- 
ous; flowers rather small and thin in texture, resupinate. 
31 species native to tropics and subtropics of Sey- 
chelles, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, Africa, 
South America, West Indies and Bahamas. 
Type of the genus: Angraecum maculatum Lindl. 
Key to Species 
1. Petals at most 4 to 4 the length of the sepals . . . . . . 2 
la. Petals and sepals more or less equal in length . . . . . . 6 
2, Pseudobulbs ovoid to cylindrical; leaves lorate [at 
least 40 em. long]; inflorescence diffusely branched. . . . 3 
2a. Pseudobulbs globose to pyriform; leaves linear [at 
most 20 em. long]; inflorescence racemose or rarely 
with few short branches . . . . . e 7 ee ee ee ee 4 
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