THE ORCHID WORLD. 
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little girls of five or six years of age then 
picked up the flowers and threw them into 
the chests containing the rice. 
" Some days after returning from my ex- 
pedition I passed this place agam and stopped 
at the same spot for dinner. I had collected 
a large number of these plants, and my long 
boat was full of Coelogyne asperata. 
" Directly the inhabitants saw these plants 
their attitude towards me completely changed. 
The women and the young girls showed signs 
of great agitation. Many of them began to 
cry and howl, others manifested a violent 
fury, and I do not know what would have 
happened if I had not hastened to leave, 
distributing around me pieces of money and 
supplies of tobacco. 
" I regained my boat without deki)', fortunate 
to save at little expense my plants and 
perhaps even my life, for the Dayaks seem 
to have a special admiration for this Coelogyne, 
and consider their existence dependant on it. 
They would not have let me carry away my 
freight at their first seeing it, and perhaps, 
would have made me pay dearly for this 
sacrilege." 
DENDROBIUM ACUMINATUM 
This elegant species 
IS a native of the 
Philippines, and so 
closely resembles D. 
Treacherianum, a Bor- 
nean species, that it is 
considered by many to 
be only a geographical 
form of it. D. Lyonii 
IS another very similar 
species with slightl)- 
larg-er flowers, and is 
also thought to be a 
variety of D. Treacheri- 
anum. 
The original descrip- 
tion of D. acuminatum 
ijives the flowers as 
being white streaked 
with lavender, and the 
disc of the lip yellow. 
We have never seen any 
specimens with yellow 
discs, but if this is 
correct, then possibly 
the many plants now 
grown under the name 
of D. acuminatum are 
either D. Treacherianum 
or D. Lyonii. 
VOL. I. 
Dendrobium acuminatum, from a photograph k'ndly sent by 
Dr. Heinrich von Miller- Aichholz, Vienna. 
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