148 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
PLATE 206.— Pholidota recurva, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 front view of a flower, 2 
lip, showing the lamelle on the dise and the apical auricles, 3 side view of bract, stalked ovary, 
column and lip, 4 front view of column, stigma and anther, 5 under surface of anther, 6 pollinia » 
all enlarged. 
Tribe Ill—VANDEAE. 
Pollinia 2, 4, or rarely 8, attached singly or in pairs or in fours by a caudicle (rarely 
by two caudicles) to a viscid gland derived from the stigma (in a few doubtfully from 
the stigma). 
Group I.—Anther terminal. 
Gland of pollinia doubtfully stigmatic— 
Pollinia attached to a single caudicle— | 
Pollinia 4 (2 and deeply bifid in Acrochene), cohering to a single 
caudicle expanding at its base into a gland doubtfully derived from 
the stigma. 
Terrestrial and with. 8 short pseudo-bulb, petals entire, column with 
no foot. 
Spur of lip long, narrowly infundibuliform at the mouth, other- 
wise cylindric, curved . . ; ISU FG - . e 25. Tipularia. 
Epiphytal; the pseudo-bulbs on a creeping rhizome, each with a single 
leaf ; lip jointed to the long foot of the column, spur none, petals 
fimbriate. 
Lip panduriform, 2-horned at the base and with two erect 
lamelle ; petals and sepals inseited on the - foot of the 
column at a distance from each other. . . 2... o 96. Monomeria. 
Lip 3-lobed, the basal lobes erect and broad, the apical lobe 
narrower, acute, deflexed ; petals attached to the column and 
the lateral iom to its EOM but close together; pollinia 2, 
BM... rao 42-212 е a c a ШС a PDC MIDI. 
Pollinia 8, clavate, cohering by fours to a viscid caudicle, or sessile on 
the gland. 
Epiphytal and without pseudo-bulbs. 
Stems thick, compressed, fleshy, unbranched, leafy ; flowers саай 
and in dense heads. . . . oe or o o n s . 28. Agrostophyllum: 
Stems terete, much and ін. branched ; flowers solitary 
or two іп а ТӨШӨ ua so c « 24's . 75 ID. Ы 
Pollinia attached to two caudicles— 
. Pollini& 4, attached in pairs to two {тее caudicles ; gland single, double 
or absent ; ры . они ee es ен a 00 IE 
