990 CXX. ORCHIDEJX. [ Phreatia. | 
The genus is spread over the Indian Archipelago and the South Sea Islands. The 3 
ee Australian species is also found in Norfolk island. P 
. P. limenophylax, Reichd. f. in Bonplandia 1857, 54 (partly). A — 
ded plant, the very short stem covered by the persistent bases of the — 
leaves. Leaves linear, thick and alaien channelled on the upper 
side, 1 to 2 in. ien the dilated base 3 or 4 lines broad. Eger very 
; Oberonia erassngcula, F. Muell. Herb. ; Zria beber i 
Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. ii. 97, t : 
Queensland. On the barks of Zi RO am bay, Dallachy.—This speci cies is 
also in Norfolk island. I have not seen the pollen-masses in the Australian specimens — 
the fowr being all too far advanced, but the whole plant, the flowers in every pa arti- P 
atia to u 
does not assent to the union. Lindley appears also to confounded this species 
eh South Sea island one which has flat leaves ; and Reichenbach by some mistake 
laces the P. tay ey nin in his group headed * foliis ri tre ;" the leaves are, 
emer figu auer, and specially described by me NAA as“ carnosula, connato- | 
piste, intus me longitudinali notata," precisely as in the Australian specimens. 
6. PHOLIDOTA, Lindl. 
Flowers subglobose. Sepals nearly equal, free. Los. smaller 
reaa sessile at the base of the column, concave or almost saccate 
at the base, entire or 3-lobed, the lateral lobes débil, the middle lobe 
recurved. Column erect, somewhat hood-shaped at the top and wing 
m font nr da rminal, lid-like, 2-celled, the valves almost trans- 
asses 4, waxy, _ globular, without any ca and 
rmi 
often ahs broad and imbricate in the yo opis raceme, 
The genn spread over East India and the AQUI) the only ye 
species E pie the greater part of thé area of the genu 
1. P. imbricata, Lindl. in Hook. Exot. Fl. ii. t. 198; (Jen. and SP. 
Orch. 36. — short, with a few sheathing s et and a single leaf, 
ulbs. af 
leaf, flowering part 
and 6 in. long or more. Bracts roadly ovate, obtuse or almost acute, 
4 to 9 lines long, complicate and imbricate at first, d from the 
