PHOLIDOTA. 115 
Leaves in pairs, 1 {о 2 йш. long, elliptic ог elliptic-oblong or sometimes oblanceolate, 
sub-acute, many-nerved; petiole 2*5 to 5 em. long. Peduncle from the base of and about 
as long as the mature pseudo-bulb; its lower half enveloped in tight tubular mottled 
sheaths, 1- or 2-flowered. Flowers 7:8 to 10 cm, across, rose-coloured or occasionally white ; 
Лог bract obovoid, very obtuse, as long as or longer than the stalked ovary, convolute. 
Sepals sub-equal, spreading, oblanceolate. Petals as long as, but narrower than the sepals, 
spreading. Тір ovate-orbicular, without side lobes, convolute round the column at the 
base, anterior portion concave, the open wide repand mouth with lobulate laciniate 
edges, the apex slightly bifid; disk with a white patch traversed by five yellow crested 
lamellae. Column very long, with a short sac at the base, the apex expanded into a 
wide undulate irregularly lobulate hood. Poilinia clavate. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1965; 
Fol. Orch. 16; Bot. Mag. t. 4496; Paxt. Mag. t. 7; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 810; 
King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. уіп 141 t. 196, ©. Wallichiana Lindl. 
Gen. and Sp. Orch, 43; in Wall. Pl, As. Rar. i, 46, t. 54; Bot. Reg. xxiv, Misc. 85 
Paxt. Mag. vi, t. 25; Gartenfl. t. 283; Jennings’ Orch. t. 47; Griff. Notul. iii, 402, 
Pleione precoz Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 97. Р. Waillichit Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. sub. t. 
51. Р. birmanica Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, ii, 840. Epidendrum precoz Smith 
Exot. Fl. t. 97. 
Garhwál and Kumaon at 5 to 8,000 feet (fide Fl. Br. Ind), but I have seen no 
specimens from the Western Himalaya. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, 
the Khasia Hills and Burma, 
ll. Pholidota Lindl. 
Epiphytes with jointed, often branching stems with internodes like pseudo-bulbs, or 
with tufted pseudo-bulbs. . Leaves usually in pairs (solitary in JP. imbricata), membranous. 
many-nerved. Аасетез on ebracteate peduncles, terminal or from the base of a pseudo 
bulb or sometimes from below the leaves, usually drooping and distichous; floral braci 
large and persistent. Flowers small, subglobose, expanding from above downwards, 
Sepals concave. Petals narrower than the sepals. Lip usually without side lobes, more оғ 
less eymbiform and saccate. Column short, the apex shortly hooded or winged, Anther- 
cells subglobose. Ро ша 4, subglobose or clavate, cohering by pairs to one or two 
membranes,—Species about 20, Indian, Malayan or Chinese. 
EON мн CT iud в lo luus occu DIM. 
Leaves in pairs:— 
жоғы Табо cue نے مر‎ v „ sos a s, ?Р, иин 
Smaller in all parts, floral braet obtuse . . 2. P. articulata 
var. Griffithis. 
1. РнашротА ІМВЕІСАТА Lindl. in Hook. Fl, Exot. t. 138, 
Pseudo-bulbs ccespitose, cylindric, thickened at the base, 5 to 75 em. long, or shorter 
and more ovoid, usually partly enveloped in large fibrous sheaths. Leaf solitary, 1:5 
to 8 dm. long, elliptic-oblanceolate or lanceolate-acute, tapering to the stout petiole, 
Inflorescence from the base of a pseudo-bulb, drooping, 2 to 2:5 dm. long, lengthening in 
fruit. Peduncle slender, as long as or longer than the dense many-flowered distichous 
raceme. Flowers 18 mm. long, pale brown; foral brac? large, convolute, subretund, 
minutely apiculate, many-nerved, longer than the slender stalked ovary, persistent, 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carc, Vou. IX. 
