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1529 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Temperate Sikkim-Himalaya, at elevations of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, Sir J. D. 
Hooker; at Poang-gaon 12,000 feet, Pantling, No. 340; flowering during August. 
Pirate 207.—Tipularia Josephi, Reichb. fil. А plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 stalked 
ovary, column and lip, seen from the side, З column, and section of lip: and its spur, 4 column, 
front view, showing the terminal anther, projecting pollinia and caudicle, stigma, base of column 
with its forward projecting callus, and sections of the side lobes and of their inward-projecting calli, 
5 empty anther, seen from its posterior end, *6 pollinia and caudicle; all. enlarged. 
26. Monomeria, Lindl. 
Epiphytal.  Pseudo-bulbs on a stout rhizome, each bearing a single coriaceous 
petiolate leaf. Scape from the base of a pseudo-bulb, laxly racemose, horizontal. Flowers 
rather large, ringent. Sepals unequal; the. dorsal parallel to the column, ovate, acuminate ; 
the lateral pair far removed from the dorsal and much larger, attached near the middle 
of the long curved naked foot of the column, coherent both at base and apex. Petals 
minute, broad but very short, fimbriate. Jp about as long as the dorsal sepal, jointed 
on the foot of the column, mobile, panduriform, with two diverging horn-like lobes 
at the base and two erect lamelle on the disc. Column short, very broad, winged, 
toothed at the apex, the foot long and much curved.  Poilinia 4, unequal, cohering 
into a sub-globular mass and attached to a caudicle ending in an ovoid-globose viscid 
gland. Distrib. Two closely allied species—one from the Himalayan and Khasia Hills ; 
the other from Burma. The Burmese one may only, however, be a variety. 
This genus combines the habit of Bulbophyllum and of Cirrhopetalum with the caudiculate pollinia 
of Vandee. The broad very short fimbriate petals are its chief distinguishing character. 
_ MowowERIA BARBATA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 1978. 
Rhizome woody, “25 in. thick. Pseudo-bulbs' 2 to 3 in. apart, ovoid or elliptic, 
shrivelled at flowering time, 1:5 to 2 in. long. Leaf oblong, with a blunt emarginate 
apex, 7 to 12 in. long, and 1 to 1:25 in. broad; petiole 2:5 to 3 in. Scape nearly 
as long as the leaves, dark purple, the sheaths with peduncle *35 to :5 in. long. 
Flowers *8 to 1 in. long, floral bract short. Lateral sepals nearly twice as long as the 
dorsal, conjoined and decurved at the apex, the margins reflexed, the upper surface 
hispid in its outer half. Zip deflexed from about the middle, the lamelle of the disc 
converging. Stigma with 2 glands on the lower margin. Caudicle of pollinia brittle, 
the gland ovoid-globose. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orchid, 61 ; Sert. Orchid, frontispiece ; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 781. 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys ; in flower during February; Pantling, No. 124. Nepal; 
Wallich. Khasia Hills; Rita. ` ; 
. The flowers are yellow with bold brown markings, the ovary is brown and the 
pseudo-bulbs are tinged with the same colour. 
3 PLATE 208.—Monomeria barbata, Lindl. Plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 side view of a flower, 2 front 
view of the same, 3 lip seen from the base, 4 petals, 5 column, 6 anther, 7 and 8 pollinia ; ай 
