ORCHIBACEM 75 



PHOLIDOTA Lindl. 



P. IMBRICATA Lindl. in Hooker Exot. El. 2 : t. 138 (1825) ; 

 Lindley in Wall. Cat. no. 1991, and Orch. PL 36 ; Bot. Reg. t. 

 1213 (1828), t. 1777 (1836) ■ Loddiges Bot. Cab. 1. 1934; Wight 

 Ic. 3: 9 (pt. 2), t. 907 ; Dalzel & Gibson Bomb. Fl. 262; Drury 

 Handb. Ind. Fl. 3 : 340; Mueller Fragm. 4: 163; Bentham Fl. 

 Austr. 6: 290; Fitzgerald Austr. Orch. vol. 2, pt. 4 cum ic; 

 Grant Orch. Burma 161 ; Hooker f. Fl. Br. Ind. 5: 845 ; Ridley 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. 31 : 287 (1896), and 32 : 328 (1896) ; King & 

 Pantling Orch. Sik.-Him. 144, t. 201 ; Trimen Handb. Fl. Ceylon 

 4 : 162 ; Bailey Queensl. Flora pt. 5, 1544; J. J. Smith Orch. Java 

 151; Ames Orchidace^e fasc. 1, 72 (1905) ; Schlechter in Usteri 

 Vierteljahrschr. Naturf. Gesells. Zurich 50: 450 (1905). — Cym- 

 biclium imbricatum Roxburgh Fl. Ind. 3: 460 (1832). 



Flowers odorless, greenish white to nearly white, tinged with 

 obscure brown; bracts brownish, Mt. Mariveles, Prov. Bataan, 

 Luzon, September 8, 1905, E. D. Merrill (no. 4193) ; March, 

 1905, Merrill (no. 3961). — Fls. dull whitish, Twin Peaks, Prov. 

 Benguet, northern Luzon, September 8, 1904, R. S. Williams 

 (no. 1956), hb. New York Bot. Gard. — Lamao River, Mt. Mari- 

 veles, Prov. Bataan, central Luzon, 400 ft. alt., November 27, 

 1903, R. 8. Williams (no. 347), hb. New York Bot. Gard. — 

 Camp Keithly, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, March, 1906, Mary 

 Strong Clemens (no. 442). — Baguio, Prov. Benguet, Luzon, 

 August 15-24, 1906, H. M. Curran (nos. 5117 and 5147). 



Sunda Islands, Malay Peninsula, Burmah, Andaman Islands, 

 Ceylon, Northern India. 



P. VENTRICOSA (Bl.) Reichb. f. Bonpl. 5 : 43 (1857) ; Rolfe 

 Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 5 : 585 (1889) ; l'Orchidophile 9: 258 (1889); 

 J. J. Smith Orch. Java 154. — Chelonanthera ventricosa Blume 

 Bijdr. 383, t. 51 (1825); Lindley Orch. PI. 178; Miquel Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. 3 : 673. — Cazlogyne ventricosa Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6 : 



