PHOLIDOTA. 147 
Walp. Ann. VI, 238; in Bonplandia IV, 329. Cælogyne articulala, Reichb. fil. in Walp. 
Ann. VI, 238. C. khasiana, Reichb. fil. 1. c., 238. 
Sikkim, common from the foot of the range to an elevation of 4,000 feet; in flower 
from June to August; Pantling No. 31. Westward to Kumaon, eastward to Bhutan. 
Also in the Khasia Hills and Upper Burma. 
The flowers are white tinged with DIN pink ‘and the floral bracts are pale 
brown. 
Var. Grifithii, King and Pantling. Like the type in most respects, but smaller in 
all its parts, the internodes less furrowed and with narrower leaves; flowers only 72 in. 
across; the floral bract and dorsal вера! suborbicular, blunt; petals elliptic-lanceolate - 
sepals green; petals pale green; lip brown. Pholidota Grifithii, Hook. fil Ic. Plantar., 
t. 1881; Fl. Br. Ind. V, 845; Wall. Cat. No. 1992 (іп part). 
Sikkim, at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 feet; in flower during July and August. 
Griffith, Hooker filius; Pantling Хо. 32. Dehra Dun; Gamble. Khasia Hills, at 
5,000 feet; Clarke, Mann. | 
Puate 205.— Pholidota articulata, Lindl. A plant ; of natural sise. Fig. 1 flower, side view, 2 stalked 
ovary, column and lip in profile, 3 lip, 4 column and anther in situ, 6 anther, 7 pollinia, ай enlarged ; 
5 bract, of natural sise. 
Prate 204.—Pholidota articulata, Lindl. var. Griffthü, King and Pantling. A plant; of natura! 
sise. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 side view of stalked ovary, column and lip, 3 bracts opened out, 4 lip, 5 
front view of column, stigma and anther in situ, 6 view of the inside of the anther, its lateral margins 
shrunken and reflexed, 7 pollinia ; all enlarged. 
5. PHOLIDOTA recurva, Lindl., Gen. and Spec. Orch., 37. 
i Stems thin, jointed, branching; the internodes yellowish, polished, angled when fresh 
(with the appearance of being winged when dry) 1:5 to 4 in. long and only :3 in. 
in diam., the nodes with a few broad scarious sheaths. Leaves membranous, narrowly 
elliptic-oblong, acute, narrowed at the base into the short petiole, the young ones 
sheathed at the base; length 2*5 to 45 in. breadth :6 to "8 in. Racems terminal, 
from between and about as long as the leaves of a young pseudo-bulb, decurved, 
secund, with numerous crowded flowers; the peduncle short, slender. Flowers :15 in. 
long; bracts fan-shaped, with truncate apices, imbricated, secund, as long as the 
stalked ovary, persistent. Dorsal sepa! sub-orbicular,. concave ; the lateral pair broadly 
ovate, obtuse. etzls ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, as long as the sepals. Lip broadly 
cymbiform, with two auricle-like terminal lobes, and on the upper surface five short 
cylindric ridges. Column broad, with short wings near the apex; the rostellum short, 
transverse. Рита elliptic-clavate, attached in pairs to two small membranes. Capsules 
double-fusiform, narrow, "2 in. long. Hook. fil. Ie. Plantar., t. 1878; Fl. Br. Ind. 
V, 815. Colgyne recurva, Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 238. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 2,000 to 4,000 feet; in flower during August and 
September; Pantling, No. 93. Distributed westward to Nepal and eastward to Bhutan. 
The flowers are of a uniform pale brown, and the pseudo-bulbs of a yellowish-green 
` passing into straw colour. The bracts persist on the racemes on the side opposite to 
the flowers, being quite as secund as the flowers, 
Ann. Roy. Bor. GARD., Carcurra, Vor. VIII. 
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