190 ORCHIDACEH. [ Busoruviutvm.. 
Dehra Dun (Gamble); flowers during June and July. Duisrrim. s: 
Kumaon in the Gori Valley, up to 4,500 ft. (Duthie), and from Nepal 
eastwards to Sikkim and on the Khasia and Naga Hills. 
6. PHOLIDOTA, Lindl. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 844. 
Epiphytes with jointed and often branching stems, the internodes 
resembling pseudobulbs, or with tufted pseudobulbs. Leaves 
in pairs or solitary, membranous, many-nerved. Flowers small, 
racemore, subglobose, expanding from above downwards, usually 
drooping and distichous ; peduncles ebracteate, terminal or from 
the base of the pseudobulb ; floral bracts large, persistent. Sepals. 
concave. Petals narrower than sepals. Jip more or less cymbi- 
form, usually without side-lobes. Column without a foot, short, 
hooded or winged at the apex. Anther subglobose; pollinia 4, 
waxy, subglobose or clavate, cohering in pairs to one or two mem- 
branes.—Species about 20, in India, Malaya and China. 
Leaf solitary : , ‘ . ; . iL. P. imbricata. 
Leaves in pairs . : : A ‘ . 2. P, articulata, var.. 
Griffithii. 
1. P. imbricata, Lindl. in Hook. Fl.ELxot. t. 138 ; Gen. & Spec- 
Orch. 37; F. B. I. v, 845; K. & P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. 
viii, 144, t. 201 ; Duthie id. ix, pt. 2, 115 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1012 ; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 688. Ptilocnema bracteatum, Don Prod. 
33. Cymbidium imbricatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. wi, 460 
A pendent epiphyte. Pseudobulbs ccespitose, cylindric, thickened at 
the base, 2-3 in. long, or shorter and more ovoid, usually partly 
enveloped in large fibrous sheaths. Lea solitary, 6-12 in. long,. 
elliptic-oblanceolate or lanceolate, acute, tapering to the stout petiole, 
strongly '3-5-nerved. Inflorescence from the top of a pseudobulb, 
drooping, 8-10 in. long, lengthening in fruit ; peduncle slender, as 
long as or longer than the dense many-flowered distichous raceme. 
Flowers about } in. long, white tinged with pink or yellow; fl. bract 
longer than the slender stalked ovary, convolute, subrotund, minutely 
apiculate, many-nerved, persistent, pale-brown. Sepals ¢ in. long; . 
dorsal sepal orbicular, 3-nerved ; lateral pair connate at the base, 
cymbiform, winged along the keel. Petals linear-oblong, subacute. 
Lip 3-lobed, saccate between the large rounded lateral lobes ; terminal 
lobe divided at the apex into two small oblong lobules. Column 
