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Fria spec. (fam. Orchideae). Before transcribing Mr. Smith’s 
account of the case of cleistogamy observed in this plant, I 
wish emphatically to point out that this case can be properly 
treated of in the present paper, only if the observed peculi- 
arity occurs occasionally. It goes without saying that plants 
which regularly show cleistogamy, are out of place in papers 
on teratology. Mr. Smith says: , Amongst other Orchids, cultivated 
in pots, I found an Eria, of which the flowers were cleisto- 
gamous, but produced ripe fruits. It appears that in this species 
this is of frequent occurrence; at least some time ago a native 
brought me a few specimens closely resembling the said plant; 
of these specimens, I do not think, the flowers had opened, but 
they (at least some of them) afterwards produced fruit. I am 
also keeping another stalk with buds, which I shall carefully 
watch.” 
Dendrobium spec. One of the flowers of a very richly flowering 
stalk did not twine round its axil, as usual. 
Laelia Perrini. In both flowers of a two-flowered inflore- 
scence the pollinia in one of the anther cells were grown toge- 
ther, so as to form one big pollinium. Thus each flower showed 
three pollinia. 
Calliopsis bicolor (fam. Compositae). The ligulate flowerets had 
their margins united so as to form a cup. All capitula of the 
plant were deformed in the same way. 
Pentstemon campanulatus (fam. Scrofularineae) showed a quite 
regular flower (regular pelory). 
Uroskinneria spectabilis (fam. Scrofularineae) produced a hep- 
tamerous flower instead of a pentamerous one. 
Streptocarpus Reai (fam. Gesneraceae). Of this flower Mr. Smith 
found a whole series of abnormal specimens. 
The normal flower consists of a long tube widening upward 
with a 5b-lobed limb, two lobes are turned upwards, three 
downwards; the colour is a light violet-blue, the middle one 
of the three inferior lobes marked with three, the lateral lobes 
with two dark stripes each; with these three lobes two normal 
stamens alternate, the three other stamens only consist of a 
