ORCHIDACE.E. 1001 
coriaceous or age inflorescence lateral or terminal, race- 
mose or capit column short or long, prolonged below as a 
sai pollinia sae all cohering or cohering by fours to 
mmon membran Eria 
ia herbs, rater ins or not; leaves membranous 
or chartaceous, plicate ; CNN paeere or scapose ; 
column long above, not Bibi ged below 
Leaves linear from a long, gsi sais oa lip sessile 
on the base of the column, a but not gins ; flowers 
and leaves not contempor: WS. heneeseeeese achystoma. 
Leaves Po tbe or ieee from a short, stout 
pseudo ; lip adnate to ~ base of the column; howe 
co abeaminsiie with leay 
os free ; lip eet or eee ; column not pro- 
ed into a foot hajus. 
ses par ina binahdh fleshy cup; lip not spurred ; 
n pr olonged into a large foot ...Acanthephippium. 
tarely, two caudicles to a stigmatic gland :— 
©Anther terminal :—{p. 1 
Pollinia 8, attached by fours to a granular caudicle; terres- 
trial h sah ;. leaves chartaceous, plicate ..............+ Calanthe. 
Pollini 
usar herbs, with pseudobulbous stems; flowers in 
e sec racemes; leaves chartaceous or membranous, 
Plica 
Lip distinetly 3-lobed, saccate or spurred * base ; 
florescence strict ophia 
Lip obscurely 3-lobed, wide ventricose at base, Aa not 
spurred ; inflorescence at first decurved ...... Geodorum. 
Epiphytic herbs :— 
tem pseudobulbous ; leaf sens seiarerse cw, Thecostele. 
Stem not pseudobulbous ; leaves 
Stems very short; leaves close “8 rice flat, fleshy, 
and pendulous ; lip spurred, with forked appendages on 
its disk Doritis 
Stems more or less elongated; leaves coriaceous and 
flat or fleshy and terete :— 
Lip not spurred ; leaves terete Luisia 
Lip spurred, adnate wiles column or to its foot :— 
+Column prolonged in long foot; spur with 
no callus or septum a :—[p. 1002} 
