INCONSPICUOUS AND RARELY CULTIVATED ORCHIDS. 151 



objects. About twenty species are known, and all are remarkable for the 

 above characteristics. 



Owing to the short time at my disposal for reading this paper no men- 

 tion has been made of the numerous species of Aerides, Angraecums (fig. 79), 



Fig. 80. — Physosiphon Loddigesii. 



Vandas, Phaius, Ansellia, Zygopetalum, Sobralia, Miltonia, Cypripedium^ 

 Oncidium, Odontoglossum, &c., nor of such neglected genera as Arpo- 

 phyllum, iEranthus, Ansectochilus, Ccelia, Comparettia, Cyrtopodium, 

 Galeandra, Polystachya, Schomburghkia, Stanhopea, Octomeria, Hexisea, 



