Sepals ovate-lanceolate, nearly equal, the lower connate 
with the elongated process of the column; petals of the 
same shape, but smaller. Jip articulated with the 
column, the disc of the middle lobe, which is fringed, 
terminated abruptly by a broad, furrowed crest. Column 
bordered, clavate. Pollen masses 4, attached to the gland 
by a common stalk. 
The bulbs, as they are improperly but commonly called, 
of this tribe of Orchidex, are in fact stems in a particular 
state: Botanists have as yet given no definite name to 
them, wherefore we propose hereafter to distinguish them 
by the denomination of pseudo-bulbi. ak 
