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jointed at the base. Stipes of the polliuia long, narrow. Flowers in simple or 

 branched, very long peduncled racemes. 



51. STAUROPSIS. Sepals and petals spreading widely. Lip not jointed at the 

 base. Stipes of pollinia long, narrow. Flowers medium-sized, in simple or branched 

 racemes. 



52. ARACHNANTHE. Sepals and petals widely spreading. Lip jointed at the 

 base, gibbous or shortly spurred. Stipes of the pollinia flat, acute from a broad base. 

 Flowers large, loosely racemed. 



** Lateral sepals adnate to the foot of the column, forming a mention. 

 Spur, if present , distant from the base of the lip, sometimes recurved and 

 as vending. 



53. PHAL.ENOPSIS. Lip spreading from the base or erect at the base, not spurred. 

 Column- erect, foot short. Stipes of the pollinia linear or spathulate. Flowers large, 

 in simple or branched racemes. 



54. ' DoErns, Lip with a long claw, incumbent, 3 -lobed, not spurred. Column 

 winged, < qot long. Flowers small or medium-sized, in simple or branched 

 racemes. 



55. RHY-NCHOSTYLIS. Lip saccate at its union with the foot of the column, 

 then narrowed, 'blade ovate or tongue-shaped. Column wingless, foot short. Stipes 

 of the pollinia subfiliform. Flowers rather large, in long dense racemes. 



56. SAHCOCHILUS. Lip shortly incumbent or adnate to the base of the column, 

 folade fleshy, top often inflexed, gibbous or shortly stoutly spurred. Stipes of the 

 pollinia linear or oblong. Flowers usually small, in simple racemes. 



57. TEicnoGLOTTis. Lip with a long foot adnate to the base of the column. 

 Flowers few, small. 



58. AEIUDES. Lip jointed on to the long foot of the column, blade with an 

 ascending or recurved hollow spur. Stipes of the polliuia narrow. Flowers in simple 

 cr branched racemes. 



"*** Jj\p saccate or spurred at the base (not under the blade). Column 

 wingless. 



59. RENANTHKRA. Sepals and petals spreading widely ; lateral sepals usually 

 the largest, parallel and placed under the small lip. Stipes of the pollinia flat, 

 narrow. Bacemes branched. 



-60. VANDA. Sepals and petals fleshy, widely spreading from a narrow base. 

 Stipes of pollinia broad. Flowers large, in simple racemes. 



61. SACCOLABIUM. Sepals and petals widely spreading. Column without 

 appendages. Stipes of polliuia usually slender. Flowers small, in simple or branched 

 racemes. 



62. SCJKENORCHIS. Flowers of Saccolalium, but column with 2 erect linear 

 appendages. 



63. UNCIFERA. Sepals and petals erecto-patent. Spur of lip strongly incurved. 

 Stipes of the polliuia with a dilated sub-2 -lobed tip. Flowers small, in dense-fld. 



racemes. 



61. ACAMPE. Sepals and petals thick, concave. Stipes of pollinia slender. 

 Flowers small, crowded in a short rigid simple or branched peduncle. 



65. SAROANTHUS. Sepals and petals. fleshy, spreading. Spur of the lip internally 

 divided longitudinally. Flowers small, in simple or pauicled slender racemes. 



66. CLEISOSTOMA. Spur of the lip almost closed with a callus or lamella. Flowers 

 small, crowded in simple or branched racemes. 



67. ORNITHOCHILUS. Sepals spreading ; lateral connate at the base of the claw 

 of the lip, and together with it forming a mntum. Lip broadly 2-3-lobed, often 

 fimbriate. Stipes of the pollinia strap-snaped. Flowers small, in simple or branched 

 slender racemes. 



