1000 BENGAL PLANTS. 
minal; flowers rather small, in racemes or spikes ; column 
plone below as a foot :— 
with basal goa aes column very ee: bie: broad 
stylis. 
ms 
Lip without basal auricles; column long, mr ere: 
ties or wings or both; restelion sometimes double 
ip 
Epiphytic, occasionally casually epigeal, but never i 
terndadtrial erbs; leaves chartaceous or coriaceous ; column 
more or Brin May's below as a foot :— 
tems solita cespitose, or compos mag = discrete 
psendobabs. ‘dually attached on a short or long 
rhizo 
ome : 
Flowers from the stems or pseudobulbs terminal or 
axillary, solitary or on few-flowered peduncles, or in 
ew- or many-flowered racemes, usually large and 
eaves ; pollinia all subequal, always free; lip rarely 
mobile Dendrobium. 
Flowers from lateral scapes rising from the base of 
to a small sphere of translucent tissue, the inner pair 
always smaller ers the outer :— 
aah sepals marked] eeding the dorsal; 
wers (in our species) sinbllate.. .Cirrhopetalum. 
bated sepals not greatly exceeding the dorsal :— 
ateral sepals alongside or under the lip ; flowers 
(in our species) racemose or spicate 
Bulbophyllum. 
Lateral sepals ad a flowers solitary... Trias 
Stem jointed, composed of elongated pseudobulbs 
aceous 
— on a bode 5 core; leaves solitary or binary, 
Pholidota. 
q Pollinia i. —{p. 999] 
Epiphytic herbs, Sot eee eee or not; leaves chartaceous; 
