108 EPIDENDREJE. 
TRIBE II.—EPIDENDRE E. 
Pollinia 4 or 8, waxy, attached by their bases or by their backs to a single or 
double granular or translucent appendage, but without any gland derived from the 
stigma. 
Terrestrial, without pseudo-bulbs :— 
` Beapes from a stout سوچ‎ siti before the leaves 
appear. i Pachystoma. 
Stems leafy ; flowed inte, appearing with ‘the Ñawi. . 8. Phaius. 
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Epiphytal, pseudo-bulbous or with jointed stems :— 
Column with a long foot, pollinia8 ....... 9. Ема. 
Column without a foot, pollinia 4:— 
Pseudo-bulbous, flowering bracts deciduous . . . 10. 06+ 
Stems composed of elongate pseudo-bulb-like joints . M. Pholidota. 
7. Pachystoma Blume. 
Terrestrial, with thick rhizomes. Leaves solitary оғ in pairs, appearing after the 
flowers, long, narrow, many-nerved. Scapes pale, with many sheaths. Flowers in 
crowded racemes, rather small, white or pale purple, puberulous. ар sessile on the 
base of the column, erect, with oblong acute side lobes and а small terminal lobe. 
Column short, dilated at the apex. Anther dorsal. Pollinia 8, pyriform, — to a 
single membrane.—Species 6 to 8, Asiatic or African. 
PACHYSTOMA SENILE Reichb. f. in Bonplandia iii, 251. 
Terrestrial, leafless at flowering time. Rhizome rather stout; producing leaves at 
intervals of 2 to 5 em. Leaf succeeding the flowers, solitary, longer than the scape, 
linear, membranous, 4- or 5-nerved. сарез about 3 dm. high, clothed with many pale 
membranous clasping striate sheaths, each 2*5 to 5 cm, long; raceme many-flowered. 
flowers about 13 mm. across, greenish-white tinged with pink or purple, glandular- 
puberulous; floral bract longer than the curved stalked pubescent ovary, erect, lanceolate, 
acuminate. Sepals unequal; the dorsal oblong, rounded at the apex; the lateral pair 
spreading, oblong-lanceolate, subacute. Petals narrowly spathulate, recurved, puberulous 
like the sepals. Zip sessile on the base of the column, 3-lobed, erect, broadly oblong, 
gibbous at the base, pubescent, side lobes with acute falcate apices, the terminal lobe 
suborbicular recurved and abruptly acuminate at the apex, disk of whole lip with 
5 stoutly-crested ridges extending from base to apex. Column dilated at the apex, 
puberulous. Anther on the back of the column, indistinctly 8-celled.  Pollinia 8, 
subclavate, cohering to a single cylindric appendage.  Reichb, f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 
463; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 812; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot, Gard. Calc. 
