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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A subtribe of orchids of the tribe Vandeæ. typified by the genus Oncidium, and characterized as epiphytes with the flower-stalk rising from the base of a pseudo-bulb or a fascicle of a few fleshy non-plicate leaves. It includes about 40 genera.

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