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viscid, and the whole pollinarium is readily carried off by any insect or other 
foreign body with which it may come in contact, giving it a fair chance of 
being lodged on the stigma of another flower. It is that form of pollinarium 
in which the pollen-masses and gland are separated by a stipes which has 
been erroneously described as pollen-masses with a caudicle and gland, and 
has led to confounding it with the true caudicles and gland of Ophrydez 
and of Calanthe and some other Epidendrez.”’ 
Bentham divided the Vandez into eight, subtribes, though he remarked 
that habit, and even geographical distribution, had often to be relied upon 
rather than actual character, and that when some of the doubtful genera 
were better known considerable modifications might be necessary. These 
subtribes were as follows :—Eulophiee, Cymbidiee, Cyrtopodiez, Stan- 
hopiez, Maxillariez, Oncidiee, Sarcanthee, and Notyliew, and we may 
consider them in the order named. 
The subtribe Eulophiez was held to comprise the genera Eulophia, 
Lissochilus, and Galeandra, most of the species being terrestrial, with 
subterranean rhizomes, long plicately-veined leaves, and simple erect 
flowering scapes, a few species, however, being epiphytic and _ pseudo- 
bulbous. Eulophia is a large genus of over 200 species, the great majority 
being African, with several others in India, the Malayan Archipelago to 
North Australia, and a few in Tropical America. It now includes 
Cyrtopera, which Lindley had considered distinct, and which Bentham 
united with Cyrtopodium and placed in Cyrtopodiee. Very few of the 
species are in cultivation, though E. guineensis is a handsome species not 
infrequently met with. Lissochilus is an exclusively African genus of 
which nearly 100 species are known. They are very similar to Eulophia in 
habit, but are usually taller, and many of them have very showy flowers. 
Several of them are well-known in cultivation, and very handsome. 
Galeandra is a Tropical American genus of nearly twenty species, the 
majority being epiphytic, with fusiform pseudobulbs, and the lip funnel- 
shaped and terminating in a rather long spur. G. Devoniana and one or 
two others are occasionally cultivated. Pteroglossaspis is a small genus, 
placed by ,Bentham in Cyrtopodiez, but now transferred to Eulophiez. 
Six species are known, four being African, one a native of Argentina, and 
the last of Florida, where it is said to be locally common. The species 
are spurless, but much like Eulophia in habit. None of them are known 
in cultivation. 
In the subtribe Cymbidiez Bentham included eleven genera, all of them 
natives of the Old World, but the anomalous genus Polystachya also found 
in Tropical America. Bentham remarked: “‘ The plants of this subtribe 
have generally the habit nearly of Eulophiez and some Cyrtopodiez, but 
have no spur to the labellum nor mentum to the perianth. They are 
