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10. JOSEPHIA. 



Epiphytic, stemless, tufted herbs ; root fibres very stout. Leaves 

 radical, rigidly coriaceous. Flowers very small, on the branches 

 of panicled spikes, sepals broad, subequal, concave, conuivent, petals 

 narrower, lip adnata to the base of the column, erect, fleshy, concave ; 

 lateral lobes small erect ; midlobe small, entire, papilloso, with a basal 

 callus uniting the side lobes. Column erect, broad, nearly as long as 

 the sepals, shortly two winged above, footO ; anther acuminate, 2-celled ; 

 pollinia 4, oblong, subcaudate, attached to the rostellum by a viscus. 



1. — Josephia lanceolata, Wight. Fl. Br. Ind., V., 823. 



Leaves petioled, linear oblong or lanceolate subacute, young clothed 

 with hyaline sheaths. Scape 4 to 12 inches slender and its branches 

 stiff; bracts short, ovate appressed ; flowers \ inch broad, white tinged 

 with purple ; sepals obtuse. 



Inflorescence like that of a Statice. Wight, on Jerdon's authority, 

 mentions the curious fact of the persistent continuously flowering 

 spiires. 



Distribution. — Western Ghats from the Konkan to Travancore ; Ceylon. 



1 do not know this plant and have copied the foregoing from Sir J, D. 

 Hooker's description in the Flora of British India. 



11. PHOLIDOTA. 



Pseudbulbs densely clustered, ovate, dark green. Leaf solitary, 

 thick and stiff, distinctly veined. Raceme from the base of the pseud obulb 

 long stalked and pendulous, bracts semi- circular, closely two ranked, 

 sepals concave, lateral joined at the base, petals flat, lip 4-lobed column 

 winged, pollinia 4, subglobose, free or cohering in pairs by a viscus. 



1. — Pholidota imbeicata, Lindl. Fl. Br. Ind., V., 645, Dalz. 

 and Gibs., p. 262. 



Pseudobulbs, up to o inches long, obtuse, somewhat angled. Leaf 6 

 to 12 inches long, elliptic lanceolate. Raceme about a foot long, bracts 

 closely arranged, dorsal sepal orbicular, lateral boat-shaped, keel winged, 

 petals linear oblong falcate, lip 4dobed, side lobes broad rounded, 

 terminal lobes 2, smaller. 



Distribution. — On the Belgaum and N. Kanara Ghats and the Konkan, 

 flowering in August. 



Recorded also from the Tropical Himalaya, Khasia Mountains, Chittagong 

 Burma, Andaman Islands, and Ceylon. 



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