100 . ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Epiphytal, either with or without pseudo-bulbs; leaves membranous or 
fleshy ; inflorescence lateral or terminal; lip usually lamellate, column 
with a long foot, flowers with & mentum; pollinia 8, sub equal, all 
eohering, or cohering by fours to & common membrane. 
Column straight, short; lip oblong, not mobile. 
Sepals connate, petals included except their apices; pseudo- 
bulbs small, discoid, reticulate ; flowers one or two, terminal. 18. Porpaz. 
Sepals and petals free, spreading; pseudo-bulbs when present 
not discoid; inflorescence lateral or terminal, racemose or 
рө .... a phi sea 19. Eria. 
Column long; curved, ic so that its apex is brought фа 
the middle of the lip; its foot much thickened, coloured ; en 
orbicular, mobile; racemes lateral . . . . © . 20. Tylostylis. 
Epiphytal, with pseudo-bulbs or jointed stems, ccespitose or with а 
rhizome; leaves in pairs, membranous; inflorescence terminal or 
scapiform, racemose; column usually long (short in some species of 
Pholidota) with no foot; pollinia 4, in free pairs, or all cohering to 
& common membrane. 
Pseudo-bulbous. 
Lip not clawed and not igno bent at the base; disc 
of lip lamellate . . . 21. Cologyne. 
Lip clawed and boldly китеп аб the her ам of ір 
КЕЛИНКА V ds ovo oe ov € v у А è 22. Panisea, 
Stems composed of elongate pseudo-bulb-like joints strung end 
to end on a woody core. - 
Sepals narrow; lip narrow and vire saccate at the base ; 
floral bracts caducous . . . . 22. Otochilus. 
Sepals broad, lip broad and ый, it iato at di, іе; - 
floral bracts persistent. . з, à.» ELO о . % Pholidota. 
1l. Spathoglottis, Blume. 
Terrestrial; pseudo-bulbs broadly ovoid. Leaves on short stems, long, narrow, many- 
nerved. Scape lateral, bearing a few rather large flowers in a raceme. Sepals and 
petals sub-equal, free, spreading. ip sessile on the. base of the column, erect, usually 
saccate at the base; lateral lobes divergent, the dise between them ridged or tubercled; 
terminal lobe large. Column long, erect, winged toward the apex, with no foot. Anther 
2-celled. Pollinia 8, cohering to a small membrane. Species about ten, in the — of 
Asia, in tropical Australia and the islands of the Pacific. | 
SPATHOGLOTTIS IXIOIDES, Lindl. in. Wall. Cat. 3745; Gen. and Spec. Orch., 120. 
Pseudo-bulbs globular, ovoid, “б to "75 in. long, with numerous loose sheath-like fibres 
at their bases. Leaves two or three on a short sheathed stem from the apex of the pseudo- 
bulb, linear, acuminate, with several neryes, 4 to. 8 in. long and about -2 or ‘25 in. 
broad. Scape from the side of the pseudo-bulb, erect, slender, longer or shorter than the 
leaves, with a long sheath at the base and bearing three or four flowers in a lax raceme 
at the apex, Flowers yellow, 1:5 in. in vertical expanse, puberulous; floral bract lanceolate, 
