G88 CXXT. OUCllIDACE.i;. 



1. Pholidota imbricata, Lindl. iyi IIoolc Fl. E.rot. (1825) t. 138. 

 A pendent epiphyte ; pseudobulbs caespitoso, cvlindric, thickened at the 

 base, 2-3 in. long and |-| in. thick at tlie middle, or shorter and more 

 ovoid, furrowed, more or less enveloped in large fibrous sheaths. Leaf 

 solitary, G-12 by 1|— 2j in., elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, 

 strongly 3-5-nerved, tapering at the base into a stout petiole 1| in. long, 

 riowers in dense many-flowered drooping racemes 6-9 in. long, rising 

 from the top of the pseudobulb, distichous, i in. long, white with a 

 pinkish or yellowish tinge (Trimen) ; peduncles slender, naked, as long 

 as or longer than the I'aceme ; floral bracts large, longer than the slender 

 stalked ovary, persistent, pale brown, convolute, ^ in. broad, subrotund, 

 minutely apiculate, many-nerved, the edges irregulni-ly folded. Sepals \ 

 in. long; lateral sepals connate at the base, cymbiform with a winged 

 keel ; dorsal sepal orbicular, 3-nerved. Petals linear-oblong, subacute. 

 Lip 3-lobed, saccate between the side lobes ; side lobes large, broad, 

 rounded; midlobe divided at the apex into 2 small oblong lobules 

 separated by a broad sinus. Column broad and winged in its upper 

 half ; pollinia clavate, attached by pairs to two small membranes. Cap- 

 sules I in. long, ellipsoid, strongly ribbed, the fruiting rhachis thickened. 

 El. B. I. v. 5, p. 845 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 262 ; Wight, Icon. t. 907 ; Lindl. 

 Bot. Eeg. tt. 1213, 1777; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 162; King & Pantl. 

 Ann. Eoy. Bot. Card. Calc. v. 8, p. 144, t. 201 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 518; Prain. Beng. PI. p. 1012.— Plowers : 

 July. 



Konkan: S/ocl-sl, Lmvl ; S. Konkan, Bahell, 51 !; near Vingorla rare, Dal~cU ^' 

 Gibson. Kanaka: N. Kanara, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Sikkim, Kuiuaon, Bhutan, 

 Assam, Chittagonf?, Birnia, Andaman Islands, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malay- 

 Peninsula, China, Philippines. 



9. JOSEPHIA, Wight. 



Epiphytic almost stemless tufted herbs; root-fibres very stout. 

 Leaves radical, petiolate, coriaceous, elliptic or oblong. Elowers small, 

 pedicellate, in slender secundly branched panicles terminal or subterminal 

 on the branches ; bracts persistent, small. Sepals connivent, subequal, 

 oblong, obtuse, concave, Mith a subsaccate base. Petals as long as the 

 sepals, oblong, obtuse. Lip adnate to the base of the column, erect, 

 fleshy, concave ; side lobes short, rounded, incurved ; midlobe small, 

 rounded ; disk with a broad cullus uniting the side lobes. Column erect, 

 nearly as long as the sepals, broad above, footless. Anther acuminate, 

 2-celied ; pollinia 4, oblong, parallel, subcaudate, attached by a viscus to 

 a broad gland. — Distrib. East Indies ; species 2. 



Wiglit says on tlie autliority of Jordon, who had the plants in cultivation for 3 

 years, that the flowers in tlie genus are annually renewed on the old scapes. 



1. Josephia lanceolata, Wigld, Iron. v. 5, part 1 (1852) p. 10, 

 t. 1742 (lea\i's only; I'or flowers see t. 1743). Leaves inchiding petioles 

 3-5.i by .^-1 in., oblong or oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, obi use or 

 subacute, apiculate, very coriaceous, dull green, strongly nerved, con- 

 tracted at the base into a. channelled p(?tiole |-2 in. long. Inflorescence 

 very like that of a Stalice; scapes exceeding the leaves, sometimes 

 reaching 12 in. long; flowers white, tinged with purple; bracts small, 

 ovate, acute, persistent ; pedicel with the ovary short. Sepals i-iV '"• 



