OECHIDS OF THE SIEOM-HISIALARA.
Lip not spun'ed.
Lip adnate to tho column.
Leavoa terete; flowers two or three in very short racemos,
LetiTes flat.
Apicftl lobe of lip laferollj compressed and -with two
apical setce; peduncle short, fow-flowered . . . . kh- Biploprora.
Apioal lobe of lip thick, concave, laterally compressed,
entire at the ap« 45. Staurop»h.
Apical lobe of lip very obscure, minute, side lobes very
large; poUinia 4 ¿¡3. Sareochihs.
Lip jointed to the column Aracknanl/.e.
Zip sparred (gibloiis in one Vanda).
Lip fidnate to the column, or to its foot.
Cohmu with a long . foot, produced into a long spur
without callus or septum in its interior iS. brides.
Column with no foot or iritb a very short one.
Spur with no callus or septum in its interior.
Spur deep, much compressed laterally, pubescent at
the rcouth, side lobes none mynchodyli^.
Base of the lip sometimes only gibbous, but tisuall
with a widely infundibuliform spur glabrous at tlie
mouth, not compressed; side lobes large; apical
lobe fleshy (thin in V. tem) with many canmeled
glabrous ridges, sepals,and petals broad, but often
tapered to a narrow base; flowers large, eaudicle
of pollinia broad
Ease of the lip with a long narrow eyliudric or
short wide saccate spur, not compressed; side lobes
of lip none or small; apical lobe either small and
smooth or large and earunoulate or fimbriate; flowers
smaU i caudicle of pollinia narrow . . . ' . . . 51. Scccolalitm.
Interior of spur occluded by a dorsal scale or by calli on
the front and back walls, but with no septum.
Rostellum short, straight; pollinia 2 Cioüotíoma
Eostellum long, pollinia 4 53. SteMu,.
. Interior of spur with calli ani with a vertical anteroposterior
septum dividing the spui into two lateral
Surcantku,.
Lip jointed to the column.
Lip jointed to the footless column, large, S-lobed, its spnr
wide and without septum; polhnia 4 S6. Bendrocolh.
Lip jointed to the long foot of the eolnmn, fleshy, with a
nari'ow cavity, its spur thick-waUed and without calli or
septum; pollinia 4 Ornitkarium.
Epiphytal, without either pseudo-bulb or stem; leafless at flowering
time; flowers ,minute, in short racemes; petals entire; lip with a
short wide spur, sessOe on the column; pollinia 4 58. Taeniop'^yll„m.
l o l
TIPULAEIA.
GKOÜP JI.—Anther dorsal.
Pollinia 4, in two pairs.
• Rostellum and caudicles very locg, tho latter tapering to the minute ^^
gland
Each pair of pollinia enclosed in a funnel-shaped cup attached to
a short free caudicle; the caudicles inserted on a large emarginate
. . 59. Podochihie.
gland
Polliuia sessüe on a large fleshy gUad, caudicles none CO. Ride^a.
Pollinia 8.
Leaf terete, contiouous with the terete stem.
Column deeply lobed at the apex, tho anther lying between its
lobes- polHnia clavata-cylindric, attached to a short broad
candióle; gland caudate ^^''''io.lyli».
Stem with numerous short equitant leaves.
Column not deeply lobed; poHinia clavate, four of them small and
imperfect, attached to a slender elongated caudicle, gknd small . 62. Apvendiouta.
Tseudo-bulbous; leaves solitary or in paii-s, flat.
Aces of the column acuminate, the caudicles of the pollinia pointing
^ , . 63. Theksis.
upwards
Column with broad truucate horizontal apes on which the anther
lies, the pollinia and caudicle horizontal, the caudicle joining
the' gland of the vertical rostellum at a right angle . . . . U- Phreatia.
25. Tipularia, Nntt.
T o n e s t rW with Bmall psoudo-bufts. Itaf solitary, OTilto, sliortly petiolate.
f r om tho baso of tho psoudo-bnib, much loogor tliin tho leaf, ercct, slendoi.
l a d y racomoso. Softb and f . t a l , sub-oqual, lanooolato, spreading, lip consistiBg
chiofly of a spin- slightly longer than tho potáis, slender, and ouryod forward; the
side lobes short, n a nw, ronnded, eaeh beairág a callas i the mid-lobo oyate-laneeokte,
d e f l e i e d Column rather broad, straight, without wings; anthor torminal, depressed,
2 celled • voUaia 4 attached to a slender eaudicle ending in a gland and projecting
beyond the ond of tlio rostcllnm. Two species; the fodowing and ono North American.
TIPULAEIÍ. JoaErm, lieielib. fil. ex Lindl.
Soc. I, 174.
L Journ. Linn.
FsaMulb Bub-globnlar, pointed, -63 in. long. La/ broadly OTato, acute, the edges
„ „ M a t e tho base rounded, suddenly eontmcted into tlie short petiole, plicate, 6- to
T-ncrvod', colom-ed, length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1-65 to 2-5 in. J»/™».. 8 to 12
i n long with one or two narrow biaeteoles -3 in. long on its peduncle, the raceme
„c'oupyin'g its upper fourth. '3 in. long; /»-ri ta.fe broad, mi«nto; lateral
I n l , « of the lip with tliiek oblong calli, mooting a similar callm from the front of
I S c o h l .7d almost ocelnding the month of tho spnl-. Hook. til. Fl. Br. M .
V, 708.