ORCHIDACE&. 
Lip articulate on the foot of 
the column and mobile 
Stems jointed, composed of 
elongated pseudobulbs  at- 
tached to a woody core ; 
leaves solitary or in pairs, 
charfaceous ; column without 
afoot . ; ‘ ‘ 
Pollinia 8 
Terrestrial herbs without pseudo- 
bulbs :-— 
Scapes from a stout rhizome, flower- 
ing before the leaves appear 
Stems leafy ; flowers large, appenr- 
ing with the leaves 
Pseudobulbous epiphytes ; cour 
with a long foot . ? . p 
Pollinia attached singly or in pairs or fours 
through one or rarely two caudicles toa 
stigmatic gland :— 
Pollinia 2, rarely 4 in Cymbidium :— 
Terrestrial glabrous herbs with fleshy 
tubers or rhizomes, rarely pseudo- 
bulbous; flowers in  peduncled 
racemes ; leaves chartaceous or 
membranous, plicate — 
Lip distinctly 3-lobed, saccate or 
spurred at the base; inflore- 
scence straight ° 
Lip obscurely 3-lobed, widely ven- 
tricose at the base, but not 
spurred ; inflorescence at first 
decurved 
Epiphytic herbs, rarely terrestria] or 
leafless, usually with long linear 
coriaceous leaves sheathing on a 
large fleshy pseudobulb ; ‘scapes 
racemose, column footless or very 
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5. BULBOPHYLLUM, 
6. PHOLIDOTA. 
7. PACHYSTOMA. 
8. THUNTA. 
9. ERIA. 
. 10. EvLoputra. 
. ll. Groporum. 
slightly produced ; lip not spurred 12, CyMBIDIUM.. 
