Supplement, #e.] GXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 177 



that 4 is the rule, but one of each pair is often much smaller, and I suspect sometimes 



In line 3 of the character of subtribe Malaxece for not incumbent, read accum- 

 bent or incumbent. 



P. 667. Subtribe ERIEJE. The inflorescence is often subterminal in JEVia, and 

 appears to be truly terminal in the anomalous genus 10/2 Claderia. (See p. 810.) 



P. 668. The Subtribe CYRTOPODIE^: of Bentham, is here included as far as the 

 Indian genera are concerned in Eulophiece, though by oversight, it is introduced at 

 p. 671. ^Eulophiece are described in the " Genera" as pseudobulbous, and having a 

 spurred lip, but very few indeed of the Indian species are pseudobulbous, many have 

 a mere sac to represent the spur, in many the so-called spur is a true mentum, and 

 Bolus " Orchid of Cape Peninsula " describes species that have neither a spurred 

 nor saccate lip. The only character given for Cyrtopodiece, as distinctive from 

 Eulophiece, is that of the column being produced into a foot ; but this is invalidated 

 by my having to follow Blume, Bolus and others in replacing Cyrtopera, which in 

 the " Genera " is referred to Cyrtopodium, in Eulophia ; and as I find no character by 

 which Plocoglottis, the only other Indian genus of Bentham's Cyrtopodiece, can be 

 excluded Eulophiece, I propose as a character 



Subtribe EULOPHIE^:. Terrestrial, never epiphytic. Stem rarely pseudo- 

 bulbous. Lip usually spurred saccate or forming with the lateral sepals a mentum. 



39. EULOPHIA. Lip free from the sides of the column, adnate to its base or 

 foot. 



48. PLOCOGLOTTIS. Lip adnate by a membrane to the sides of the column. 



Suborder CYMBIDIEJE. Terrestrial or epiphytic. Lip neither spurred nor con- 

 spicuously saccate ; adnate to the base of the column. Genera as at p. 671, including 

 Cremastra, which has to be added. 



Suborder VANILLEJ:. The free often hippocrepiform pollinia, without caudicle or 

 gland, distinguish the Indian species from Corymbece and Spiranthece. 



Subtribe CORYMBE.E, differs from all other Indian NEOTTIEJE in the hard almost 

 woody stem, and rigid leaves, in which respect the species resemble Apostasia. 



Tribe OPHRYDE.S:. In 4th line insert "long or" before short. 



Subtribe EUOPHRYDE.E. If I am correct in my analyses of the rostellum in some 

 of the smaller Habenarice, it may prove difficult to separate this subtribe from 

 Habenariecs. Under any circumstances the modifications of the rostellum are so 

 great in both, that I doubt its forming a subtribal character. 



After Subtribe DiSE2E should follow (as at p. 675) 



Subtribe COEYCIEJE, to include 110 DISPERIS. This genus and Satyrium are the 

 solitary Indian representatives of the extensive S. African Subtribes Disece and 

 Coryciece, which are distinguished from one another by Bentham, and more recently 

 by Bolus (the Orchids of the Cape Peninsula) by the former having the sepals and 

 petals all free, and the lip at the base of the column, whilst in the latter the dorsal 

 sepal and petals cohere, and the lip is adnate to the column nearly to its tip. 



Tribe CYPRIPEDIE.E. This tribe I think includes two subtribes, if not two 

 tribes; namely 



CYPRIPEDIE.E. Flowers very irregular. Lip inflated. Anthers 2, one on each 

 side of a large dilated rostellum. Staminode very large. 



APOSTASIES. Flowers regular. Lip like the sepals and petals. Anthers 2 or 3 

 on the sides of a small erect rostellum ; staminode very small or 0. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 

 P. 669. After 9. BULBOPHYLLUH, insert 



9/1. HENOSIS, see Vol. v. p. 771, and for amended characters p. 189 of this 

 volume. 



P. 670. After 18. CHRYSOGLOSSUM, irisert 

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