Tribe |. —MALAXIDEAE. 
Pollinia 2 or 4, waxy, without appendages, free or rarely attached by their bases 
to а ball of translucent matter. 
* Pollinia 4— 
* Leaves equitant— 
Epiphytal; leaves fleshy, sessile ; inflorescence terminal; flowers minute, 
in racemes or spikes; column very short, without appendages . . . 1. Oberonia. 
* * Leaves not equitant— 
Terrestrial ; leaves membranous, usually sessile; inflorescence terminal; flowers 
small, in racemes or spikes; lip with basal (often very large) auri- 
cles; column very short, with broad arms . . . . . 2. Microstylis. 
Terrestrial or epiphytal; leaves 1 ог 2, rarely more, rib اا‎ 
inflorescence terminal, racemose, flowers small; lip without basal or 
side lobes; column long g, with callosities or wings or with both; 
© rostellum sometimes double . . . . . 9. Liparis. 
Terrestrial; leaf solitary, membranous, 0084: шыс ао teo 
a small pseudobulb; flowers minute, racemose; lip with a short spur, 
but without lobes or teeth; column without appendages . . . . 4. Didicea. 
Epiphytal; coespitose (rhizomatous in sect. Sarcopodium) ; leaves two or more 
(rarely опе), from pseudobulbs or stems, membranous or coriaceous; 
inflorescence terminal or axillary, in short few-flowered peduncles or 
in few- or many-flowered racemes; flowers usually large, brightly 
coloured ; column without appendages, itself short, but with a more or 
less elongated foot forming with the lateral sepals a mentum or sac; 
pollinia of equal length . . қ . 5. Dendrobium. 
Epiphytal with a rhizome bearing ойнады ог Mies Пена зой 
sometimes absent); leaves solitary and coriaceous, ог in pairs and mem- 
branous; inflorescence a scape from the base of the pseudobulb or 
from the rhizome between pseudobulbs; flowers solitary or in heads, 
spikes, racemes or umbels; lip fleshy, tumid, jointed to the foot of the 
column, mobile, usually without side lobes; column short and stout, 
toothed towards the apex; foot short: or long; inner pair of pollinia 
small. 
Flowers rarely umbellate; lateral sepals not much longer than the 
dorsal, free; pollinia always free . . . . . . . . 6. Bulbcphylium. 
Flowers usually umbellate; lateral sepals much longer iia the dani 
and usually connate; pollinia sometimes attached to a bali of 
translucent substance . . . . . . . + © + © «© ss ‚_. 7. Oirriopetaium. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. GARD. Carcurra, Vor. VIII. 
