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Oberonia, } ORCHIDACE. 1003 
Stigma single, anticous ; pollinia 2, or 4 in two pai 
sag narrow, clavate, 2, produced and united Tew to a 
ngle caudicle, inserted on a long, narrow gland; leaves 
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bcoriac 
: spurred or saccate, and with no Sate Aare Tropidia. 
Pp long-clawed, not spurred or saccate............ Corymbis. 
Pollinia short, mua inserted directly on the gland ; leaves 
at, membrano 
Pollinia 2, ip caceate at the base, the sac usually setose or 
tubercled w Ci yera 
Pollinia 4 ; pee not saccate or spurred ........+++ Spiranthes. 
Stigmas 2, iejaval. ‘tan pollinia 2, bipartite ; lip sessile ; 
leaves flat, bra 
Base of lip stole as & along epurer ees Vrydagzynea. 
Zeuxine. 
Base of lip saccate but n red 
tAnthers 2, ps with 1 perfect ae at sessile on the column, remote 
or contiguous, always discret te, the outer empty; pollinia 2, some- 
times 2- -partite, adnate with or without caudicles to separate glands ; 
leaves flat, mem ranous ; terrestrial herbs [p. & joxesienes aria. 
*Ovary and fruit 3-celled; seeds conspicuous; sepals, petals, and lip 
Similar ; anthers 2, each with both cells perfect ; pe herbs with 
narrow, subcoriaceous, strongly nerved leaves [p- 999] ....-+-.. 
892. Oberonia Lindl. 
Epiphytic herbs, with usually very short, often tufted stems ; 
leaves coriaceous or fleshy, usually ensiform, always distichous 
and equitant. Flowers minute, numerous, sometimes whorled, in 
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Panding centrifugally. Sepals subequal, ovate or oblong. Peta 
88 wide as or narrower than the sepals ; lip larger than the sepals, 
Sessile, rarely entire, usually lobed and often erose, the hypochile 
more or less concave, or with a nectar-secreting pit near its base. 
Column very short, stout, cai winged, Anther terminal or 
ineumbe nt; pollinia 4, coher g in pairs, waxy. 
-oblo: 
Lip et or subquadrate, sie aa rounded, or tooth-like side- 
e 
lobes, its 8 tip with 2 small lobes separated by a wide sinus...... Falconeri. 
re 3-lobed, erose, with large, ial side-lobes and a 2-fid mid- 
Gammiei 
— Sirespis! linear; lip oblong, with filiform lateral lobes near the 
Ra €, and two terminal lobes, short, parallel, acute, re soar 
with; a iftoy lobule. brid 
