146 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
The sepals and petals are of a dull pale yellowish-green, the lip and column 
pinkish-brown. 
Рглте 202.—Pholidota rubra, Lindl. A plant; of natural sise. Fig. 1 a flower, front view, 2 part 
of rachis, bract, column and lip, 3 lip, 4 front view of column, stigma and anther ій situ, 5 under 
surface of auther, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
8. PHOLIDOTA PRoTRACTA, Hook. fil. Ic. Plant. t. 1877. 
Stem elongate, slender, clothed in numerous long scarious sheaths and sending off 
at intervals translucent fusiform pseudo-bulbs 1:5 to 2 in. long, often bracteate at the 
base; bearing at the apex two membranous narrowly elliptic leaves with acute apices, the 
bases narrowed to the short petioles, 3 to 5 in. long and "75 to 9 in. broad. Racemes 
several from the joints of the rhizome, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered, the 
peduncles short. Flowers nearly "295 in. long; bract broadly ovate, acute, recurved, 
shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, broadly ovate, blunt, very concave, 
connivent. Petals broadly elliptic, very obtuse, somewhat shorter than the sepals. Lip 
oblong, concave, gibbous near the base; the apex somewhat narrowed, corrugately trilo- 
bulate. Column rather broadly winged in its upper half. Pollinia cuneate, attached by 
pairs to a broad membrane. Capsule sub-globular, boldly ridged, :3 in. long. Hook. 
fil. Fl. Br. Iud. V, 845. REUS 
Sikkim, at elevations of 5,000 to 7,500 feet; Griffith and others; in flower from 
October to December; Pantling, No. 55. Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) No. 5042. 
Naga Hills; Prain, No. 97. | 
. The flowers are green, but the lip has four small bright patches of dull yellow on its 
anterior lobe. 
Prate 203.—Pholidota protracta, Hook. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, front view, 
2 side view of recurved floral bract, stalked ovary and flower, 3 side view of apex of ovary, column 
and lip, 4 lip, 5 front view of column, stigma and anther in situ, 6 anther, 7 pollinia, 8 profile of a 
single pollinium; ай enlarged. | 
4. PHOLIDOTA ARTICULATA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 1992; Gen. and Spec. 
Orch. 38, | 
~ Stem jointed, branching; the internodes terete, furrowed, 2 to 4 in. long, and about 
25 in. in diam., the nodes with a few short broad scarious sheaths. Leaves thickly mem- 
| branous, many-nerved, narrowly oblong, tapering to each end; length 3 to 45 in., 
breadth 1 to 175 in. Raceme drooping, terminal on the young pseudo-buibs, issuing 
between and about as long as the leaves, many- and densely-flowered, the young 
leaves sheathed at the base. Flowers 78 in. long; bract about “5 in. long, rhomboid-ovate, 
 convolute, acute, deciduous when the flowers expand; stalk of ovary slender. Dorsal 
. sepal sub-orbicular; the lateral pair ovate, keeled. Petals ovate-orbicular, blunt. Lip 
about aslong as the sepals, broadly cymbiform, with a transversely oblong broad bilo- 
bulate middle lobe infolded at its base, the dise with five bold lamellz, Column slightly 
winged towards the apex, the clinandrium irregularly toothed; the rostellum large, erect, 
acuminate. Pollinia sub-globular, attached to a cuneiform membrane, Lindl. in Bot. 
Reg, for 1839, Mise. 44; Hook. fib. Fl Br, Ind. V, 844. Р. khasiana, Reichb. fil. in 
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