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DENDEOBIUM. 



obtained as many new forms as all the other operators put together. 

 Of the fourteen hybrid Dendrobes described below, Dendrobium nohile 

 is one parent of six of them, and has participated in the parentage 

 of one more, and D. aureum is one parent of three of the same six 

 and of two others, so that only five hybrids have yet flowered 

 that have a pai-entage in which neither of these species has 

 participated, and for the production of these five hybrids six 

 species only have been used that have not shared in the paren- 

 tage of the nobile and aureum hybrids. In every case both the 

 vegetative and floral organs of the progeny have taken a form 

 intermediate between those of the parents, the form of these organs 

 is, with very few exceptions, purposely omitted in the following 

 descriptions. 



Dendrobium Ainsworthi 



(From the Gardeners' chronicle.) 



Dendrobium Ainsworthii. 



I), aureum X !>. nobile. 

 Flowers 2—3 inches across ; the French-white sepals and 

 sometimes tinted with rose-purple towards the tips; and the lip 

 with a deep amethysl red disc, with numerous radiating streaks 

 same colour. 



petals 

 always 

 of the 



