198 



cxLViii. ORCHiDEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Epidendram hexandrum, Keen, iu Ke'z. Obs, Pt. 

 ,, Ijliiflorum „ „ 



vi. 45 = 



„ 61 = 



„ 55 



„ 55 



„ 52 



„ 46 



., 48 = 



■ Appendicula Koenigii, 



H./. ante p. 84. 

 ; Limodorum liliiflorum, 



Willd. 



Malacca, on Mangostia 

 bark. 



? Ceratocbilus orchideus, 

 ex. Lindl. &en. ^ Sp. 

 OrcUd. 232. 

 ,, 60 Malacca, near Tsing, on 

 top branches of loftiest 

 trees. 

 ,, 49 = Sarcochilus Wightii, H. 



f. ; ante p. 37. 

 ,, 60 = Bulbophyllum clandes- 

 tiam, i. antev. p. 753. 

 ,, 43 = Vanda spathulata, Spr. 



ante p. 50. 

 ,, 51 = ? brides cylindricum, 

 L., ex. Limdl. 6en. & 

 Sp. 240. 

 „ 47 = Dendrobium atropur- 

 pureum, Miq. ante v. 

 p. 724. 

 „ 53 = Eria tomentosa, Lindl. 



ante v. p. 803. 

 „ 44 



„ 65 = Eulophia virens, Bl. 

 ante p. 1. 



(By J. a. Baker, F.R.S.) 



Herbs, often large, rarely with a woody caudex. Leaves cauline or 

 radical, usually membranous, closely pinnately nerved from a midrib. 

 Flowers braoteate and often bracteolate, solitary or spicate, rarely panicu- 

 late, irregular, hermaphrodite (except Musa). OaZ^iB superior; sepals free 

 and imbricate, or connate into an entire toothed or spathaceous tube. 

 Corolla-i iihe long or short, free or adnate to the petaloid staminodes ; limb 

 3-partite, segments free or connate. Stamens either 5 s abequal with a 6th 

 imperfect, or one perfect with the rest forming petaloid staminodes ; anthers 

 linear, 2-celled, or of one cell on the margin of a petaloid connective. Ovary 

 3-, rarely 1- or 2-celled; style usually slender, with 2 very short stylodes 

 crowning the ovary ; stigma entire or subentire ; ovules many, rarely few, 

 axile, rarely parietal, anatropous. Fniii usually crowned with the remains 

 of the perianth, loculicidally 3-valved, or fleshy or membranous and inde- 

 hiscent. Seeds various, albumen flowery ; embryo small. — Genera about 

 40, species 4!-500, chiefly tropical. 



The Traveller's tree, Sarenala madagascariensis, Sonnerat (Urania speeiosa, 

 Wall. Gat. 5765), is frequently planted, especially near Singapore. It has much 

 the leaves of a Musa but they are distichous. 



Tribe I. Zing'iberese. Calyx tubular or spathaceous. Stamen 1 ; 

 anther 2-celled ; lateral staminodes filiform or petaloid, or small, or 0. 

 Style slender, embraced below the stigma by the anther. Fmhryo central, 

 straight. 



