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drium. 2-homed, membranaceouB : anther almost dorsal, 2-ceIled : 

 poUen masses 4, caudicles 2, me^mbranaceous, coiiTolute. — Caulescent 

 epiphytes: leaves distichous, small: flowers small, solitary or 

 spiked, usually terminal. 



(1) P. MICEOPHYXLTTS. (Lwdl.) 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 234. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves narrow ovate, acute, obliquely twisted : 

 petals obtuse: lip sagittate, emarginate: rostellum obtuse: gland 

 roundish : petals obovate, obtuse, smaller than the sepals : flowers 

 very minute. 



Silhet. 



(2) P. MALABAHICtrS. fR. W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. v. t. 1748—2. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves short, fleshy, imbricating, obtuse : spikes 

 terminal, short, few-flowered, drooping: bracts broad-ovate, some- 

 what cuspidate : petals lanceolate, lateral sepals connate, forming a 

 short ventrioose spurious spur : Hp entire, constricted in the 

 middle, upper half linear-lanceolate, obtuse. , 



Malabar, flowering in the rainy season. 



GEIOJS XLV. AEKIDES. 

 Ciynandna Honandria,. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. Erom Aer, the air, alluding to their habits. 



Gen. Chae. Perianth spreading or closed : lateral sepals usually 

 oblique at the base, connate with the prolonged claw of the column: 

 lip articulated with the claw of the column, saccate or spurred, 

 3-lobed : lateral lobes dwarf: limb hooded, or subulate, or abbre- 

 viate-tumid, or somewhat forked : column recumbent on the ovary, 

 short, vringless : anther 2-ceUed : pollen masses 2, furrowed : 

 caudicle broad or filiform, gland peltate, roundish. — Caulescent 

 epiphytes : stems somewhat simple, rooting : leaves distichous, 

 coriaceous, or somewhat fleshy : flowers racemose or spiked. 



(1) A. WieHTiAinjM. f Lindl. J 

 Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 238. 



8yn. Vanda parvilora, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, misf. 67, 

 Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1669. 



