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ovato-triangular, acute, yellowish-brown, meeting so as to 
form a cone ; each two-celled. Pollen Masses club-shaped, 
yellow, waxy, connected by a gland into pairs, each pair 
belonging to two different anthers. 
This has, I believe, been known for some years as an 
inhabitant of the stoves in this country; but I am not 
aware that it has ever produced flowers with us, except at 
the Liverpool Botanic Garden, whence specimens were sent 
to me in that state by my often-mentioned friends, the 
Messrs. SHEPHERD, in the month of September 1828. Its 
treatment is the same as that of the parasitical orchideous 
plants, and it is by no means difficult of cultivation. 
Two species only of the Genus are known; the one 
Discuipia nummularia, a native of Amboyna and the tro- 
pical parts of New Holland, and the subject of our present 
plate, which is, according to Mr. CoLegrooxg, a native of 
Silhet, where it is named like other parasites, Pardriuhd. 
It was introduced by Mr. M. R. Smiru to the Calcutta 
_ Botanic Garden, and thence to the gardens of Europe. 
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* Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Corona staminea. 3. One of the segments 
of the Corona Staminea. 4. Two Cells of one Anther ; one of the Cells be- 
ing empty ; the other filled with a Pollen Mass, whose Pedicel is connected 
by a Gland to the Pollen Mass belonging to the nearest Cell of the adjoining 
Anther.—Magnified. 
