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DENDR0B1UM. 



var.— elegans. 



Flowers larger and more symmetrically shaped than in the ordinary 

 forms ; petals broader and white at the base ; the zone surrounding the 

 maroon disc of the lip pale sulphur-yellow, apical margin rose-purple. 

 D. nobile elegans, Hort. 



var. — nobilius. 



Flowers larger and more richly coloured than in any of the varieties of 



Dendroblum nobile, deep amethyst-purple ; sepals and petals paler at the 



base ; the maroon disc on the lip surrounded by a milk-white zone. 



D. nobile nobilius, Rehb. in Gard. Chron. XVII. (1882), p. 366. Williams' Crch. 

 Alb. V. t. 214. 



*^y 



Dendrobium nobile Cooksonianum. 



var.— Schroederianum. 



Flowers larger with broader segments ; sepals and petals white, some- 

 times with a pale amethyst-purple apical blotch ; disc of lip rich 

 maroon-purple, almost black, bordered with pale yellow that passes to 

 white at the margin. 



D. nobile Schroederianum, supra. 



var . — Tollianum . 



A monstrous form in which the pedicels of the flowers are twisted, 

 the flowers then appearing inverted, and at the same time never fully 

 expanding, the outer whorl of segments being appressed to the inner 

 whorl, the segments of the inner whorl reflexed at the apex. 

 D. nobile Tollianum, Kchb. in Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 445. 



