224 REGULAR PELORIA. 
character, asin Dendrobium normale, Oncidiwm heteran- 
thum, Thelymitra, etc. Fig. 121, reduced from a cut in 
the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ 1854, p. 804, represents an 
instance of this kind in Cattleya marginata. 
From the same journal the following account of 
a case of peloria in Phalenopsis Schilleriana is also 
cited as a good illustration of this peculiar change. 
The terminal flower differed entirely from all the 
others ; instead of the peculiar labellum there were 
three petals all exactly alike, and three sepals also 
exactly alike; the petals resembled those of the other 
flowers of the spike, and the upper sepal also; but the 
two lower sepals had no spots, and were not reflexed 
as in the ordinary way: thus, these six parts of the 
flower were all in one plane, and being close together 
at their edges, made almost a full round flower; the 
column and pollen-glands were unaffected. Pro- 
fessor Reichenbach also exhibited at the Amsterdam 
Botanical Congress, of 1865, a flower of Selenipediwm 
caudatuwm with a flat lip. 
M. Gris’ has placed on record some interesting cases 
of peloria of this kind in Zingiber zerwmbet ; mm the more 
complete forms the andrcecium or staminal series was 
composed of six distinct pieces, the three mner of 
which were fertile, while in the ordinary flower the 
androecium is composed of two pieces, ‘fa lip” and a 
fertile stamen. ‘Is it not a matter of regret,” says 
M. Gris, “to be obliged to call the latter the normal 
flower ?”’ 
Under this head may likewise be mentioned those 
cases in which the normal, or at least the typical sym- 
metry of the flower is restored by the formation of 
parts usually suppressed ; thus Moquin cites an abnor- 
mal flower of Atriplex’ hortensis described by M. Fenzl 
as having a true calyx within the two bracts that 
usually alone encircle the stamens. Adanson, also 
cited by Moquin, found a specimen of Bocconia with a 
1 «Ann. Sc. Nat.,’ ser. 4, 1859, tom. xi, p. 264, tab. 3. 
2°, Ter. Veg.,’ p. 342. 
