CXXXVI. ORCHIDEiE. 9 
V. Notyline^e, Epiphytes pseudobulbous. Leaves I or few. Racemes 
or panicles from base of pseudobulbs. Column long. 
Leaves several; lip adnate to column half-way; 
flowers small . . • • 74 - Acriopsis 
Leaf i; lip forming a tube with column 
foot; flowers medium size . . 75. Thecostele 
VI. Podochilin^e. Stems slender, leafy, not pseudobulbous. Leaves 
distichous. Racemes lateral or sub-terminal. Flowers small. Pollinia 4 
to 8 attached to 1 or 2 calyptriform caudicles. Rostellum long bifid. 
Pollinia 4; lip clawed, erect; small plants 
with very slender stems . . 76. Podochilus 
Pollinia 8; lip saccate adnate to column; 
stiff rather tall plants, stout . 77. Apfendicula 
VII. Thelasinje. Stems pseudobulbous or not. Leaves few or many, 
distichous. Flowers very small in racemes. Lip sessile at column base. 
Rostellum long erect; pollinia globose . . 78, Thelasis 
Tribe III. Neottieje. 
Terrestrial herbs, often saphrophytic and leafless. Flowers in a terminal 
raceme, rarely lateral on a leafy stem. Pollinia 2, mealy with 2 caudicles 
and 2 discs. Column long or short. Rostellum long bifid. 
I. Vanilleje. Climbing leafy plants. Flowers axillary. Fruit baccate. 
Column elongate; flowers large . . . -79- Vanilla 
II. Galeole.e. Leafless scandent or erect plants. Flowers medium. 
Fruit capsular ...... 80. Galeola 
III. Pogonle. Erect herbs. Column usually long. Anther reclining. 
Flowers terminal. 
Tuberous herbs with one leaf. 
Flowers racemose appearing after leaf is 
gone ...... 
Flower solitary in leaf axil; plant small 
Leafless saprophytes hardly or not branched. 
Sepals free, lip free from column. 
Lip 3-lobed, capsules on short pedicels 
Lip entire; capsules on a long fleshy pedicel 
longer than stem .... 
Lip adnate to column face, hairy; stems 
black wiry ..... 
Upper sepal adnate to petals, lower connate 
below lip; stem fleshy . 
Sepals all connate ..... 
IV. Goodyere.e. Anther vertical, long acute, 
attached to 2 caudicles and a disc. Column short. 
Stems tall leafy, shrubby ; inflorescence axillary 
or terminal. 
Panicles axillary; flowers long narrow . 
Racemes short axillary or terminal; flowers 
short ...... 
Stem short ascending succulent; leaves mem¬ 
branous fleshy; racemes terminal 
peduncled; flowers small. 
Lip spurred. 
Spur bifid ...... 
Spur not bifid. 
Lip entire, with 2 pendulous glands in 
spur ...... 
Lip short 3-lobed, not clawed 
81. Aplostellis 
82 . CORYSANTHES 
83. Aphyllorchis 
84. Didymoplexis 
85. Lecanorchis 
86. Leucolena 
87. Gastrodia 
Pollinia 2 to 4 
88. CoRYMBIS 
89. Tropidia 
90. Physurus 
91. Vrydagzynea 
92. Cystorchis 
granular 
