ORCHIDE A. 
Trine I. KPIDENDREA. 
Anther lid-like ; cells distinct. Pollen-masses waxy, usually with- 
out caudicles or gland. 
Sus-trine LIPARIEA.— Stem usually pseudo-bulbous. Inflo- 
rescence terminal. Pollen-masses 4, rarely 8, subequal, crowded, 
generally free, inappendiculate. 
1. Liparis.—Stem (in the Peninsular species) pseudo-bulbous at 
base. Leaves one or few, contracted into a sheathing 
petiole. Flowers small, racemose. 
Trine Il. VANDA 
Anther lid-like; cells usually confluent. Pollen-masses waxy, 
mostly attached to a glandular appendage of the rostellum. 
Sus-rrize HULOPHIEAS.—- Leaves of the pseudo-bulbs plicate- 
veined. Flowering scapes leafy, or leafless. Lip spurred, gibbous or 
muticous, at base. 
2, Hunops1a.—Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading or 
subconnivent. Lip spurred, gibbous or muticous, at base. 
Flowering scapes usually leafless, more rarely leafy. Pol- 
linia usually attached to a short glandular appendage of 
the rostellum. 
Trisz lil. NEQUE z . 
[Not represented on the Cape Peninsula.] 
Trine IV. OPHRYDEA. 
Anther without a lid; cells distinct. Pollen granular; the pollinia 
terminating in a true caudicle. 
