190 ORCHIDACEdE. [ BULBOPHYLLUM.. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble) ; flowers during June and July. DISTKIB. r 

 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. Tnd. 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. Lip 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 . . . . 1. P. imbricata. 



Leaves in pairs . . . . . 2. P. articulata, var. 



Griffithii. 



1. P. imbricata, Lindl. in Hook. Fl.Exot. t. 138 ; Gen. & Spec- 

 Orch. 37 ; F. B. I. v, 845 ; K. & P. in Ann. R. Sot. Gard. Calc. 

 viii, 144, t. 201 ; Duthie id. ix, pt. 2, 115 ; Prain Seng. PL 1012 ; 

 Coolce Fl. Bomb, ii, 688. Ptilocnema bracteatum, Don Prod. 

 33. Cymbidium imbricatum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 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 J 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 J 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 



