116 EPIDENDREZ. 
Dorsal sepal orbicular; the lateral pair connate at the base, cymbiform, with a winged 
keel. Petals oblong, sub-acute. Lip 3-lobed; the lateral lobes large and rounded ; terminal 
lobe divided at the apex into two small oblong lobules separated by a broad sinus. 
Column broad, its upper half winged. Pollina clavate, attached by pairs to two small 
membranes. Capsule ellipsoid, about 2 cm. long. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1991; Gen. and 
Sp. Orch. 37; in Bot, Reg. tt. 1213 and 1777; Lod. Bot. Cab. t. 1934; Wight Ic. 
907; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 262; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 845; King & Pantl in 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale, viii, 144, $. 201. Р. pallida Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxi, sub. 
t. 1777.  Calogyne imbricata and ©, pallida Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 238. Ptiloenema 
bracteatum Don. Prod. 33. Cymbidium imbricatum Roxb. Fl. Ind. ili, 460. Ornithidium 
imbricatum Wall. MSS, 
Dehra Dun and up to 4,000 feet on the Mussoorie range, Mackinnon (Duties 
No. 24192); Kumaon, in the Gori and Kali Valleys 2-4,000 feet, Duthie No. 5988; 
Duíhies collector Nos. 24123 and 24124; Ramganga Valley at 3,500 feet, Strachey & 
Winterbottom No. 16. Flowers from June to August. It extends eastwards to Nepal, 
Sikkim, Bhutan, Khasia Hills, Chittagong, Burma; also to the Deccan Peninsula and south- 
wards to Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, Pacific Jslands and Australia. 
2. PHOLIDOTA ARTICULATA Lindl. іп Wall. Cat. 1999, 
Stem jointed, branching; internodes terete, furrowed, 5 to 10 cm. long, the 
nodes with a few short scarious sheaths. Leaves 7:6 to 105 сш. long, narrowly 
oblong, tapering to each end, many-nerved, thickly membranous. Raceme from the top of 
the pseudo-bulb between the leaves and about equal in length to the latter, drooping, 
many- and densely-flowered. Flowers 7 mm. long; bracts longer than the flowers, 
rhomboid-ovate, acute, convolute, caducous. Dorsal sepal suborbicular; lateral ovate, 
keeled. Petals ovate-orbicular, blunt. Zip about as Jong as Ње sepals, broadly cymbi- 
form, with five lamellate nerves on its disk; the midiobe transversely oblong, 2-lobed, 
involute at the base. Column slightly winged towards the apex, the chnandrium 
irregularly toothed; rostellum large, erect, acuminate. Pollinia subglobose, attached to 
a cuneiform membrane. Capsule about 2 em. long. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 38; 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. i, 173; in Bot. Reg. for 1839, Misc, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
v, 844; King & Pant). in» Апп. Hoy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 146, t. 905. Р: 
 khasiana  Reichb, f. in Walp, Ann. vi, 238; in Bonplandia iv, 329. Cælogyne 
articulata Reichb. f, in Walp. Ann. vi, 238. C. khasiana Reichb. f. 1. c. 938. 
Below Mussoorie up to 4,500 feet, Edgeworth, Vicary; Lansdowne in Brit. 
Garhwál, Capt. Roberts; below Naini Tal іп Kumaon at 3,000 feet, Strachey $ 
Winterbottom No. 17. Flowers in July and August. It extends eastwards to Sikkim, 
Bhutan, the Khasia Hills and Burma. 
The inodorous flowers are white tinged with brownish-pink, and the floral bracts are pale brown, 
Var. GRIFFITHII King &  Pantl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard, Cale. vii, 147, t. 
904, Like the type in most respects, but smaller in all its parts, the internodes less 
furrowed and with narrower leaves; flowers much smaller; floral bract and dorsal 
sepal suborbicular, blunt; petals elliptic-lanceolate. Pholidota Grigithii Hook. f. Ic. РІ, 
1881; Fl. Br. Ind. v, 845; Wall. Cat. Хо. 1992 (in part). 
Dehra Dun, оп sål trees, Gamble No. 27039, Mackinnon; Mussoorie range up to 
4,000 feet, Duthie No. 21780. It extends eastwards to Sikkim and the Khasia Hills. 
