s
114 El'IDEKDEE^-
4. CcELOGYNF, ELATA Liodl. in Wall. Cat. 1959.
Pseudo-hilbs oblong-cylindrio, rising at distances of about 5 cm. from a very stout
sheathed rhizome, 7-8 to 12-8 cm. long and 3-8 to 7 cm. broad, polished and sheathed at
the base. Leaves in pairs, the blade 1'75 to 3-5 cm. long, narrowly elliptic-oblong,
acute, tapering into the long petiole, thinly coriaceous. Peduncle from the apex of the
adult pseudo-bulb between the leaves and rather shoi-ter than them, bearing many short
imbricate sheaths just under the raceme. Racemes 10 to 15 cm. long, distichous, laxiy
many-flowered. Fowcrs 3 cm. across, rather fcetid; Jloml iraci subrhoniboid, acute,
conduplicate, slightly longer than the stalked ovary, caducous. Sepals subequal, oblong,
Bub-acute, spreading. Petals as long as the sepals, but much narrower, sub-acute. Lip
elongate, the lower part oblong and with narrow entire side lobes; terminal lobe
suborbicular, undulate and irregularly erose; disk with two erose-crenulate lamella from
the base nearly to the apex. Column winged above, the wing erose at the apex.
Pollmia dimidiately ovate. Capsiih clavate, 3'5 cm. long. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch.
40- in Wall. Pi. As. Ear. iii, 12, t. 218; Bot. Eeg. 1839, Misc. 92; Fol. Orch. 9;
Bot. Mag. t. 5001; Walp. Ann. vi, 230; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 838; King cS:
Pintl. in Ann. Boy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 136, t. 188; Rolfe in Journ. Liou.
Soc. xxsvi, 22. Ccelogyne sp., Grifi. Ic. PI. As. t. 290.
Garhwdl 4-5,000 feet, Falconer, MacUnnon; Kumaon in the Sarju Valley 3-4,000
feet, Strachey ^ WinUrlottom No. 14, Dxdkk's collector Nos. 24131, 24132; flowering
during April and May. Eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Upper Burma and Chiua.
5. CcELoGYNE IIooKEEiAKA Lindl. Fol. Orch. l i.
Pgendo-hilhs ccespitose, oval, with a few las shoatlis, smooth, not mottled, 2 to 2-5
cm long. lefl/solitary, from the base of the adult pseudo-bulb, petioled; the blade 5
to 6-.0 cm. long, narrowly elliptic; fetiole 2 to 3 cm. long, enclosed in tubular imbricate
sheaths. Pcduncle enveloped in the same sheaths which surround tlie base of the
undeveloped leaf and longer than the latter. Flower solitary, 5 cm. across, pale rosepurple
or white; floral bract about as long as ihe stalked ovary, broadly obovate-elliptic,
very obtuse, convolute, persistent, Se2}als spreading, sub-equal, elliptic-oblong, blunt;
the dorsal one narrower tlmu the lateral pair. Petals spreading, as long as the sepals,
obianceolate, obtuse. Up white tinged with yellow towards the apex and blotched with
reddish-brown, sub-roniform, cordate at Ihe base and entire, somewhat h)bulate and
minutely erose along the apical portion, apex retuse; disk with five to seven slender
ciUate ridges from the base nearly to the apex. Column long, curved, broadly wmged
in its upper half, its apex truncate and erose. Pollmia obliquely elliptic. Bot. Mag. t.
6388; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 843; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc.
viii, 139, t. 193.
Dwali in Kumaon at 9,000 feet, Colleti; flowering in June. Eastwards to
Sikkim.
6. CcELOGTNE PRECOX Liudl. Coll. Bot. 37.
Pseudo-hulbs cojspitose, flask-shaped, turbinate or shortly cylindric, umbonate, surface
mottled with brown or purple, and loosely sheathed by a network of brown fibres.
PHOLIDOTA. 115
Leaves in pairs, 1 to 2 dm. long, elliptic or elliptic-oblong or sometimes oblanceolate,
sub-acute, many-nerved ; petiole 3-5 to 3 cm. 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. Flomrs 7'8 to 10 cm, across, rose-coloured or occasionally white ;
floral 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. Lip 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
lamelloe. Column very long, with a short sac at the base, the apex expanded into a
wide undulate irregularly lobulate hood. Pollinia clavate. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1965;
Fol. Orch. 16; Bot. Mag. t. 4496; Paxt. Mag. t. 7; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 840;
King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy, Bot. Gard. Calc. viii 141 t. 196, C. Wallickiana Lindl.
Gen. and Sp. Orch. 43 ; in Wall. PI. 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 proecox Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 37. P. WalUchii Lindi, in Paxt. Fl. Gard. sub. t.
51. P. hirmmiea Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, ii, 840. Epidendriim pnecoz Smith
Exot. Fl. t. 97.
Garhwal 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, Bhutanj
the Khasia Hills and Burma.
11. P h o l i d o t a Lindi.
Epiphytes with jointed, often branching stems with iuternodes like pseudo-bulbs, or
with tufted pseudo-bulbs. Leaves usually in pairs (solitary in P. imlricata'), membranous
many-nerved. Racemes on ebracteate peduncles, terminal or from the base of a pseudo»
bulb or sometimes from below the leaves, usually drooping and distichous ; iloral bract
large and persistent. Flowers small, subglobose, expanding from above downwards.
Sepals concave. Petals narrower than the sepals. Lip usually without side lobes, more or
less cymbiform and saccate. Column short, the apex shortly hooded or winged. Anlhercells
subglobose. Pollinia 4, subglobose or clavate, cohering by pairs to one or two
membranes.—Specics about 20, Indian, Malayan or Chinese.
Leaf solitary
F l o r a l bract acute
Smaller i n all parts, floral bract obtuse
1. PHSLIDOÏA IMBRICATA L i n d l . i n H o o k . F I . E x o t . t. ;
1. P. imbricata.
S. P. articulata.
2. P. ardouiata
var. Griffii/ni.
Pseudo-btilbs ccespitose, cylindric, thickened at the base, 5 to 7-5 cm. long, cr shorter
and more ovoid, usually partly enveloped in large fibrous sheaths. Leaf solitary, l-.j
to 3 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
raccme. Flowers 13 mm. long, pale brown; fiorai bract large, convolute, subrctund
minutely apiculate, many-nerved, longer than the slender stalked ovary, persistent.
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