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The genus Aclisia has already been reduced to Pollia by Bth., 

 in ' Flora Hongkong,' p. 377 ; and the single species on which it 

 was founded is, I believe, a mere variety of the common Pollia 

 indica. The genus is reestablished by Hasskarl, in ' Eegensburg 

 Flora,' no. 14, 186G, though he gives no fresh characters to sepa- 

 rate it ; that residing in the number of the fertile stamens has 

 been considered unsatisfactory by Bentham, and has been already 

 discarded by Dr. Hasskarl in ' Plantse Junghuhn.' p. 148. 



1. Pollia indtca, Thwaites, Ceylon Enum. p. 323.— P. japonica, 

 Kunth, Enum. i. p. 75.— P. sorrogonensis, Bth. Flor. Hont/kong, 

 p. 377.— P. achsia, Hasskarl in Plant. Junghuhn. p. 148.— Aclisia 

 indica, Wight, Icones, t. 2068.— A. sorogoneiisis, Kunth, I. c. p. 74 

 (verisimilifer P. elegans, Hasskarl inPlant. Junghuhn. p. 149 ; Laiii- 

 procarpus thyrsiflorus, Kunth, I. c. p. 76). 



Folia lanceolata basi, in ochream angustata. Panicula exserta, pilosa, 



elongata, ramis rigidis rectis. 

 a. Aclisia, sp. no. 1. Stamina 3 perfecta. 

 )3. Aclisia, sp. no. 2. Stamina 4-6 perfecta. 

 Hab. a & /3 in montibus communis ; Himalaya, ad 500-4000 pod. alt. ; 



Khasiya, ad 500-4000 ped. alt. 



The number of stamens in /S varies from 4 to 6 iu the same 

 panicle ; but it is very remarkable that, in the large number of 

 3-stamened specimens which I have examined, I have never found 

 the perfect stamens variable. Except in this particular, even 



Hasskarl admits a & /3 to be identical. 



I have no authorized specimen of Pollia {Anilema) didyma, 

 said to grow in the Khasiya hills ; but if it only differs from P. 

 indica in the particulars mentioned by Benth. ' Flor. Hongkong,' 

 p. 378, it is not likely that I shall ever discover it. The degree 

 to which the leaves of P. indica are narrowed at the base, is suf- 

 ficiently variable. 



2. Pollia subumbellata, n. sp. Aclisia, sp. no. 3. 



Folia obovata, lanceolata. Panicula subglabra, baud exserta, depressa. 



subumbellata, ramis cernuis. 



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Kunth 



Stamina 6 perfecta. Panicula tenninalis. Capmla bilocularis. 



Semina 2, 



1. DiTHYROCABPUS PANicuLATUS, Kunth, I. c. p. 79.-noscopa pa- 



niculata, Bth. in Flora Hongkong, p. 377, cum syn. Indicts. 

 Folia lanceolata, plus minus pilosa. Panicula plus mmus lufcsccus. 



