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PHOLIDOTA* imbricita. 
Imbricated Pholidota. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcutpex. § Malaxidee. Lindley. 
PHOLIDOTA Lindley. — Pollinia 4, cereacea, libera, glandulé nulla. 
Anthera terminalis, decidua, bilocularis, 4-valvis! Stigma cuneatum, in 
processu saliente column insertum. Colwmna brevis, utrinque alata, 
carnosa. Labellum saccatum, cucullatum, tridentatum. ,Petala linearia, 
erecta. Sepala conniventia, concava, duobus inferioribus carinatis. 
Spicee imbricata terminales. Folia coriacea in pseudo-bulbis solitaria. 
P. imbricata ; pseudo-bulbis sulcatis ovatis obtusis fasciculatis, foliis ob- 
longis coriaceis plicatis, racemis distichis pendulis imbricatis. 
P. imbricata. Lindley in Hooker’s exotic Flora, fol. 138. 
Cymbidium imbricatum. Roxb. MSS. Hort. Beng. p. 63. 
Ornithidium imbricatum. Wallich MSS. 
Ptilocnema bracteatum. Don prodr. fl. Nep. 33. 
Wellia-Theka-Maravara, vel Mau-Maravara. Rheede Malab. XII. 47. 
t. 24, 
Planta perennis, omnibus partibus levis, late supra arbores serpens, 
Srequentissimée dependens, nunc nutans. Caules consistunt bulbis fasct- 
culatis, numerosis, carnosis, bipollicaribus, oblongo-cylindricis, v. subovatis, 
obtusis, obsolete angulatis, unifoliis, indutis bracteis aliquot magnis, in- 
equalibus, lanceolatis, emarcescentibus. Folium é vertice bulbi petiolatum, 
coriaceum, crassum, valdé rigidum, lanceolatum, utrinque attenuatum, 
acutum, sulcato-plicatum, pedale ad sesquipedale, quinquenervium, supra 
atro-viride, nitidum, subtds opacum, costd robustd valde elevatd. Petiolus 
crassus, firmus, supra canaliculatus, bi-tri-pollicaris. Racemus solitarius, 
laxus, pedunculatus, é& sinu folii nutans v. pendulus, lineari-oblongus, 
complanatus, distichus, folii wpicem plerumque attingens, Pedunculus 
gracillimus, lignosus, filiformis, nudus, exceptis bracteis racemi infimis 
vacuis, vaginantibus, imbricatis. Rachis compressiuscula, leviter flexuosa. 
Flores numerosi, utrinque circiter 40, inter minores, exactissime bifarit, 
alterni, approximate patentes, pallide flavicantes, inodori, pedicellis brevi- 
bus, clavatis. Bractee infrd singulum florem solitarie, magne, fere 
unguiculares, patentissime, laté ovate, denticulate, concave, scariose, 
* Derived from @oals, a scale, and ods aris, an ear; in allusion to the 
scaly ear-like bracteze of the spike. 
