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This remarkable plant has orange-brown sepals, and in the 

 shape of its parts is like I). cJirysanthum, but with ten or twelve 

 flowers in a slender raceme. The petals are orange-yellow, as also 

 is the lip, which has two crimson spots on each side. The flowers 

 of the Khasija specimens are smaller than in those from Sikkim. 



§ YI. AcLiNiA, Griffith, JSfot. iii. 320. 

 In retaining this supposed genus as a section of Dendrobium, I 

 must at the same time observe that the species are probably 

 Pelorias of others, although, with perhaps one exception, their 

 parentage cannot be traced. They are all characterized by a per- 

 fect, or nearly perfect, regularity in the inner as well as outer 

 series of floral envelopes, one result of which is the loss of the 

 mentum, which belongs to all the other plants collected under 

 the genus. In the case of D. nonjtale, the column seems to be 

 always triandrous ; and in D. Pseudaclinia, there is sometimes 

 an apparent attempt to gain that structure. It is, however, for 

 Indian botanists to investigate this curious subject, and trace 

 the monsters, if monsters they are, to their origin. Prof. H. Gr. 

 Beichenbach has discovered that Endlicher's genus Theltohiton, 

 founded on a terrestrial Norfolk Island plant, is one of these 

 Aclinias . Judging from a tracing from Ferdinand Bauer' s drawing 

 in the Vienna Museum, it seems possible, perhaps probable, that 

 this plant {Dendrohium macropus, H. Gr. Echb.) is a Peloria of 

 D. elongatmrif A. Cunn. (Z>. hrishanense, H. Gr. Echb.). I also 

 much [suspect my genus Paxtonia to be nothing more than a Pe- 

 loria of ^athogloUis spicata. 



95. D. Adinia. (Aclinia, Griff. Not. iii. 320. t. 351 A. fig. 21.) 

 Mergui, Griffith (809). 



I can have no doubt that this is a Peloria of D. incurvum 

 (infra, No. 133), which seems to have been gathered by Griffith 

 in the same place on the same day. The flowers are in pedunculate 

 divaricating secund racemes, and appear to have been white, aa 

 Griffith describes them. 



96. D. Pseudaclinia. (Dend. Aclinia, Rchb.f.inBonpl. OctA5, 1856.) 

 Bootan, Hort. Kew. 



This has flowered with Consul Schiller at Hamburg as well as 

 at Kew ; and Prof. Rchb. informs me that it has also been received 

 by the same great Cultivator from Manilla. It is a slender erect 

 plant with yellow flowers, springing in pairs or singly from the 

 sides of the stem. I have before mo a sketch by Echb. made at 



