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terrestrial, or more or less epiphytal ; the leaves, usually large and plicate, 
or many-nerved, are often borne on pseudobulbs ; the racemes, simple or 
rarely branched, are on leafless scapes or in three genera terminate the 
leafy stems. The pollen-masses are sessile on the scale-like gland of the 
pollinarium, rarely produced into a short single or double stipe.” 
Cymbidium is the principal genus, and ranges from North India and» 
Japan to North Australia, with two or three outlying species in Madagascar. 
About forty species are known, several of which are very familiar garden 
plants. Cyperorchis contains about four Indian species, which are now 
usually included in Cymbidium. Ansellia is exclusively African, and 
contains about six species, one or two of which are often met with in 
cultivation. The flowers are borne in panicles or racemes at the apex of 
the leafy stems. Grammatophyllum is nearly allied to Cymbidium, and 
contains some half-dozen Malayan species, G. speciosum being one of the 
largest Orchids known. Grammangis Ellisii is a Madagascan plant, nearly 
allied to Grammatophyllum, which is rather rare in cultivation. The 
Javan Cymbidium Huttoni is included in this genus by Bentham, where, 
however, it is clearly out of place. Dipodium contains about six species 
from the Indo-Australian and South Pacific regions, and is occasionally 
seen in cultivation. Cremastra contains a single Japanese and North 
Indian species, which is probably not in cultivation. Geodorum ranges 
from India to North Australia, and consists of eight or nine species, one or 
two of which are occasionally seen in gardens. 
The remaining genera are somewhat anomalous. Thecostele contains 
about five Malayan species, and was referred to the Cymbidiez by Bentham, 
though its characters were considered somewhat anomalous. Ridley 
places it near to Acriopsis. Bromheadia contain about seven species, 
natives of the Indo-Malayan region, and varying much in habit. B. 
palustris is occasionally seen in cultivation. Lastly comes the anomalous 
genus Polystachya, whose headquarters is in Africa, where the species 
number about 100, while there are some ten others in Tropical America 
and about half-a-dozen in Indo-Malaya. Both the habit and floral structure 
are very different from Cymbidium, and it is doubtful whether this is its 
correct position. An additional genus may be mentioned here, namely 
Eulophiella, for though at first referred somewhat doubtfully to the follow- 
ing group, it agrees better with Cymbidiez both in character and in 
geographical distribution. The three known species are all from the 
Mascarene Islands, E. Elisabethe and E. Peetersiana being well-known in 
cultivation. 
Of the subtribe Cyrtopodiez, Bentham remarked : “‘ I have here collected 
twenty-one genera, whose general character is to have the prominent mentum 
of the Maxillariez with the foliage and habit of Cymbidiee, thus forming 
