268 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
4. Poconta FALCATA, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng.,. 
Vol. LXV, Pt. 2, 129. 
Tubers globular, warted, :25 to :35 in. in diam. Scape 1°75 to 25 in. high, 
glabrous, 1-flowered, bearing several oblong sheathing thin membranous bracts at intervals. 
Flower 74 to :6 in. long including the ovary; the floral bract lanceolate, longer than 
the stalked ovary. Sepals and petals sub-equal, linear, acute, sub-connivent, :3 to °4 in. 
long. Jip oblong, convolute and embracing the column, the upper surface with а 
single broad thickened glandular-pubescent line from the middle to nearly the apex, the 
base not saccate, the disc pubescent, the lateral lobes falcate, acute, the terminal lobe 
obovate and very blunt. Column clavate, its anterior surface puberulous; the anther 
large and fleshy; the pollinia narrowly clavate-ellipsoid, stigma large. 
Western Dooar of Bhotan, east of the Jaldacca river; flowering in April; Pantling 
No. 439. 
A species near P. velutina, Par. and Reichb. fil., and Р. macroglossa, Hook. fil. Only 
three plants of this have as yet been collected, and the leaf is still unknown. 
PLATE 357.—Pogonia falcata, King and Pantling. Three flower-producing plants, of natural size, 
Fig. 1 floral bract, ovary and flower, side view, 2 stalked ovary and lip із profile, 3 the lip flattened out; 
4 apex of ovary, column with anther in situ, and stigma, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
- 5. Pogosta pricata, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 415. 
' Tuber globose, :5 in. in diam. Scape З to 6 in. long, enveloped in two ог three 
tubular sheaths with sub-acute dilated bifid apices, and a single linear-lanceolate bract 
above the sheaths. Flowers two or three, about °75 in. long; floral bract very small, 
ovate, acute, shorter than the pedicel of the urn-shaped ridged ovary. Sepals and petals 
sub-equal, spreading, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, acuminate. Lip ovate when flattened 
out, convolute and embracing the column, entire except the minutely emarginate apex, 
the midrib thickened and callus-like for more than half its length, the base slightly 
saccate. Column narrowed and sigmoidly bent in its lower half, the apex clavate. Anther 
broad, depressed, retuse, the clinandrium irregularly crenulate; pollinia four, narrowly 
oblong; the grains polymorphous. Leaf orbicular-cordate, the nerves shortly setose, the 
edges remotely ciliate, 3 or 4 in. long and about as much broad; petiole thickened in 
its upper half, nearly 2 in. long. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 119. Epipactis plicata, 
Roxb. Fl Ind. ІП, 454. Arethusa plicata, Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 321. 
Sikkim, near the base of the hills, at Piae elevation 1,500 feet; in flower 
during Nar Pantling No. 140. 
The sepals and petals are green. The lip is lilac with a green .spot at the 
base and a yellow line along the thickened part of the midrib. The leaf is of a dark 
green beautifully mottled with purplish-brown; it lies flat on the ground, and appears 
some time after the flowers have. withered. 
PLATE 358. — Pogonia plicata, Lindl. Flowering and leaf-producing plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 
a flower, 2. apex of ovary, column and lip im profile, З the lip,:flattened out, 4 floral bract, stalked 
ovary and column, showing the stigma and front of the anther, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. . 
