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lateral pair free or united at the base, spreading, larger than the dorsal. Тір adnate 
to the end of the column by a long toothed or pectinate rarely entire claw, saccate or 
spurred at the base, the sac produced beyond the bases of the sepals or quite covered by 
them, its interior with two tooth-like or laminar calli; terminal lobe with two large 
diverging oblong or sub-quadrate usually truncate lobules, Column short, with appendages 
in front, Anther 2-celled; rostellum twisted; pollinia two and bifid, rarely four, clavate, 
lamellate, narrowed into pseudo-caudicles, or attached to true caudicles and inserted on a 
narrow gland. Stigmas usually two, situated one at each side of the rostellum, or united 
into a transverse band on the column beneath it, rarely single and undivided. Species 
about forty; natives of India, and of the Malayan and Pacifie Islands. 
The genus Anectochilus was founded by Blume in 1825. The same author, in 1858, instituted his 
genus Odontochilus, separating it from Anectochilus on account of the shorter sae of its lip and of its 
being concealed by the bases of the sepals; and also because of the more developed columnar processes. 
Lindley had, in 1840, founded his genus Hemaria, which he differentiated from Anectochilus chiefly by 
the claw of the lip being entire and by its sac being hidden by the bases of the petals. These distinctions 
appear to be insufficient to justify generic rank; and as Sir Joseph Hooker, in a note under Odontochilus 
Clarke’, in his leones Plantarum (t. 2168), gives it as his opinion that Odontochilus and Anectochilus 
should be united, we now venture, not only to carry out the union, but also to include Hamaria. Wo 
feel the more justified in doing this, since dissection of living flowers of several of the species included 
in Odontochilus as it stood, discloses divergencies in the stigmatic character which appear to us of more 
importance than those depended upon for the separation of the three genera just mentioned. In the 
genus thus constituted the pollen-masses taper into long caudicle-like prolongations by which they are 
attached to the gland. These uentos are composed of lamelliform grains connected to. each 
other by elastie threads. 
Stigmas two, distinct and situated one on each side of the rostellum. 
Spur or sac of lip conical and projecting beyond the bases of the 
sepals, not septate, the contained calli oblong. 
Claw of lip with long fimbriate teeth; petals with long narrow 
curved beaks . 5 1. А. Roxburghii. 
Claw of lip with short ‘tooth ; petals with short ы bia. А А. Sikkimansis. 
 Btigmas two, united by their inner margins and forming a transverso 
band across the front of the column below the rostellum. 
` Claw of lip deeply toothed or fimbriate. 
Sac of lip covered by the generally united bases of the sepals, 
globose, didymous, septate and with a usually recurved 
conical spur-like callus in each chamber . . 3. А. lanceolatus. 
Sac of lip oblong, parallel with the ovary, not bifid, йы 
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two sub-quadrate lamellar calli . 4. А. grandiflorus. 
Sac of lip globose, ек bifid, КО бо ind YER 
teeth а өгч 4 (0. 6. А. Ейсегй. 
Claw of lip ЗА ойма 6. A, crispus. 
Stigma one, undivided, occupying ба feel. of the «іма ин ы 
rostellum and above the columnar processes . . . . 2 7. А, гіш. 
1. Ахестосипдв Кохвовсни, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7387; Gen. and 
Spec. Orch., 499. 
Height of the entire plant not exceeding 12 inches, half being stem and half 
inflorescence. Leaves ovate or ovate- oblong, acute; the petioles short and somewhat 
