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acute, sub-falcate, all boldly nerved. Lip as long as the sepals, broad, 

 sub-quadrate ; the side lobes large, rounded ; the end lobe small, triangu- 

 lar, acute, and with numerous small conical calli on its upper surface ; 

 the disc with two small oblong calli near the base and a central 

 thickened line running from the base to the calli of the middle lobule 

 of the apex. Column short, stout, the foot very short. 



Shan Hills ; Burma ; collectors of Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 

 A species belonging to the Section Hymeneria and allied to 

 E. myristiformis, Hook., which has however a different lip with distinct 

 lateral lobes, two ridges on the disc, and ridges instead of conical calli 

 on the terminal lobe. The pseudo-bulbs of this are moreover longer and 

 the racemes shorter than those of E. rnyristiciformis. 



Pholidota Wattii, n. spec. Pseudo-bulbs about 5 in. long, 

 fusiform, much narrowed at the base, rising about an inch apart from 

 a stout woody rhizome clothed with dark cinereous scarious sheaths. 

 Leaves 2, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, much narrowed at the base 

 to the short petioles ; length about 6 inches, breadth 175 in. (probably 

 often much larger). Inflorescence about 6 in. long; the peduncle 

 sub-erect, 2 in. long, almost entirely clothed with stout imbricate unequal 

 bracts ; the raceme much decurved, 4 in. long. Flowers secund, 

 distichous, somewhat crowded, '75 in. in diam. ; floral bract broadly 

 ovate, sub-acute, cymbiform, longer than the stalked ovary. Sepals 

 somewhat unequal, all spreading ; the dorsal broadly elliptic, blunt ; 

 the lateral pair narrower, subacute. Petals linear, acuminate, 1-nerved, 

 spreading, about as long as the sepals. Lip 3-lobed ; the lower part 

 deeply saccate and with 3 shallow lamellae, its edges bearing the erect 

 rounded narrow side-lobes, and with a small fold near their bases ; apical 

 lobe transversely oblong, entire, much recurved, its disc quite smooth. 

 Column stout, slightly winged near the apex. Anther convex, with a 

 truncate lip lying immediately on the upper margin of the dilated stigma, 

 and bearing on the middle of its upper surface a small viscid mass which 

 is attached to the attenuated apices of the 4 clavate pollinia. 



The sepals and petals are straw-coloured with a dash of pale green. 

 The side lobes of the lip are pale brown, the apical lobe being of the same 

 tint as the petals. The column is also pale brown. The curious viscus 

 borne on the edge of the lip of the anther serves to attach to each other 

 the narrow ends of the clavate pollinia. 



Assam ; collected by Dr. George Watt, C.I.E., in whose honour we 

 have named it. 



A species allied to the Burmese P. advena, Reichb. fil., but differing 

 from that species in having linear petals, and in the apical lobe of the 

 lip being entire and eoarunculate. 



