Plocoglottis
(from plokos, a fold, and glotta, a tongue; referring to a fold in the lip). ORD. Orchideae. A genus comprising eight species of stove, terrestrial orchids, with the habit of Eulophia, natives of the Malayan Archipelago. Flowers mediocre, shortly pedicellate, racemose; sepals connate beneath the lip, larger than the petals, which are curved at the apex; lip connate with the column on either side by inflexed, membranous folds, its limb being convex, undivided, patent, at first erect; column free above; anthers two-celled; pollinia four, round, with two long, replicate caudicles; peduncles or scapes leafless. Leaves ample, membranous, plicate. Stem or rhizomes creeping, one or many-leaved, not distinctly pseudo-bulbous at base. For culture of P. Lowii, the only species introduced, see Cyrtopodium. P. Lowii (Low's). fl. ochre-coloured, spotted with brown, borne in a spike on a long, hairy scape. l. cuneate-oblong. Pseudo-bulbs obpyriform. Borneo, 1865. (R. X. O. 154.)