VI. OECHIDE.E. 



Usually epiphytes, caulescent or pseudo-bulbous, rarely furnished with fleshy 

 roots. 



PRINCIPAL CULTIVATED GENERA. 



Ccelogyne. Ponera. Barkeria. Cattleya. Evelina. 



Pholidota. Hexadesmia. Broughtonia. Schomburgkia. Isochilua. 



Dinema. Chyaia. Leptotes. Bletia. Diothonea. 



Sophronitis. 



Spathoglottis. Epidendrum. 



Phajus. 



TKIBE HI. YANDEX. 



Pollen cohering in defined waxy masses, fixed after flowering to a caudicle and 

 retinaculum. Anther terminal, rarely dorsal, opercular. Epiphytal, rarely terres- 

 trial, caulescent (especially the American species), or pseudo-bulbous (especially the 

 Asiatic). Leaves often emarginate at the tip. 



PRINCIPAL CULTIVATED GENERA. 



Galeandra. 



Fernandezia. 



Warrea. 



Ilenanthera. 



Dicryptn. 



Kodriguezin. 



(Eceocladea. 



Peristeria. 



Galeottia. 



Ansellia. 



Trigonidium. 



TEIBB IV. OPHRYDE^J. 



Pollen composed of indefinite masses, united into 2 pollinia by an elastic cob- 

 web-like axis, agglutinated to a retinaculum. Anther terminal, erect or reclinate, 

 persistent, with perfect cells. Terrestrial plants with tuberous roots. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Orchis. Aceras. Ophrys. Gynmadenia. Habenaria. Anacamptis. 



Serapias. Satyriuiu. I'lutanthera. Bonatea. Nigritella. Peristylus. 



Holothrix. Bartholina. Disa. Bisperis, Pterygodium. Schizoditim. 



Penthea. Herschelia. Corycium. 



TRIBE V. ARETHUSEJE. 



Pollinia sub-pulverulent or formed of angular lobules, fixed by their base, or by 

 a point below the top. Anther terminal, opercular. Usually terrestrial stemless 

 plants, or caulescent and sarmentose, some aphyllous and parasitic. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Limodorum. Cephalauthera. Cyathoglottis. Guebina. Sobralia. 



Caladenia. Corysanthes. Glossodia. Pterostylis. Microtis. 



Asianthus. Pogonia. Chiloglottis. Chlorsea. 



Vanilla. 1 

 Caleya. 



1 Vanilla, with probably Gastrcdia, Ejripogium, Erythorchts, Cyrtosia, and some others, forms a very distinct 

 tribe ( fanillete) of Orchidea. ED. 



