142 THE RACEMOSE SOLENID. 
But although these differences exist, and notwithstanding their seeming importance, we own 
our inability to discover their true value. It does not appear that they can even be employed for 
the limitation of genera; for Odontoglossum Teve can hardly be said to possess a trace of the great 
staminodes of both series which are generally characteristic of genera. This question is, however, only 
now opened, and it may happen that further observations from this point of view may show a 
means of employing staminodial distinctions at present unsuspected. 
