PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



DENDEOBIUM x PORPHYROGASTRUM. 



Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. xviii. p. 102 (Report of E.H.S. Orchid Committee). 

 Raised from Dendrobium Dalhousieanum and D. Huttonii. The large 

 flowers are a curious rosy lilac in colour. 



DENDROBIUM x RHODOSTOMA, Rchb. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. v. p. 795 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 90. 



Exhibited for the first time at the Brussels Centennial flower show 

 in 1876 ; the parents are Dendrobium Huttonii and D. sanguinolentum. 



DENDROBIUM x SPLENDIDISSIMUM, Bchb. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xi. p. 298 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 91. 



Raised by crossing Dendrobium aureum with D. nobile. The flowers 

 are of firm texture and glisten as if varnished. The hybrid first flowered 

 in 1879, received the above name from Reichenbach, though really a 

 variety of D. Ainsworthii, a much finer form is known as grandiflora. 



DENDROBIUM x STRIATUM. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xii. p. 566 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 

 Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 358. 



A curious hybrid, raised by Seden from Dendrobium moniliforme 

 crossed with D. Dalhousieanum, two species belonging to entirely different 

 groups. 



The shield-like lip is a feature of the flowers. 



DENDROBIUM x THWAITESLE, VEITCHS' var. 



Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxv. p. 274, with fig. 



A handsome yellow-flowered Dendrobe, one of the finest in cultivation, 

 raised at Langley from Dendrobium splendidissimum grandiflorum and 

 D. x Wiganse, and flowered for the first time in April 1904. 



DENDROBIUM x VIRGINIA. 



Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. xv. p. 343 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 

 Review, 1894, vol. ii. p. 171. 



The first hybrid from Dendrobium Bensoniae and D. moniliforme 

 (japonicum). The flowers are a lovely clear white with a small maroon 

 spot near the base of the lip. On account of the shortness of the 

 internodes the pseudo-bulbs are quite hidden on that part of the bulbs 

 where the flowers are produced. 



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