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Dendrobium Ainsworthii, Moore in Gard. Chron. I. (1874), p. 443. Fl. Mag. n. s. 

 t. 126. D. Ainsworthii roseutn, Williams' Orc/t,. Alb. I. t. 20. 



Raised in the collection of Dr. Ainswortli, at Lower Broughton, 



near Manchester,* where it flowered for the first time in the spring 



of 1874. A variety with larger flowers having rose-purple sepals 



and petals is known in cultivation under the name of Dendrobium 



Ainsworthii roseum. 



D. Chlorostele.t 



D. Linawianum X D. Wardianum. 

 Stems like those of Dendrobium Linawianum. Flowers somewhat 

 resembling a broad-petalled D. uobile ; sepals white margined with 

 purple ; basal half of petals white, distal half purple ; central area 

 of lip amaranth-purple with radiating lines, bordered in front with 

 pale yellow, apical margin pale purple. Column green, anther purple. 

 Dendrobium Chlorostele, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 477. 

 Raised in Sir Trevor Lawrence's collection at Burford Lodge, near 

 Dorking. 



D. Chrysodiscus. 



D. Airisworfhii X D. Findlayanum. 



Stems intermediate between those of the two parents, amber-yellow 



with the nodes slightly swollen laterally. Sepals and petals white with 



purple apicular blotches ; lip yellow-white with orange-yellow disc, at 



the base of which is a purple stain, and with a purple apical blotch. 



Dendrobium Chrysodiscus, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 414. 



var — oculatum. 



The apicular blotch on the sepals and petals larger and of a deeper 

 colour ; the lip with a deep maroon disc surrounded by a bright yellow 

 zone. 



D. Chrysodiscus oculatum, supra. 



A very distinct hybrid raised in Sir Trevor Lawrence's collection, at 

 Burford Lodge. Plants were also raised from the vice versa cross that 

 produce flowers not differing much from the original Dendrobium 

 Ainsworfhii. The vice versa cross has been named D. Melanodiscus, by 

 Professor Reichenbach, loc. cit. supra. The variety oculatum is the most 

 beautiful of all the forms of this cross that we have yet seen. 



D. Oybele. 



D. Findlayanum X D. nobile. 



Stems like those of Dendrobium nobile, but more compressed, with 



the internodes swollen laterally. Flowers more nearly like those of the 



* Plants of the same cross raised by West appeared about the same time in the Fairfield 

 Nursery, near Manchester. 



t Not seen hy us. From yXtopog, "green," like grass, and o"r>jAn, "pillar," probably 



in reference to the green column of the flower. 



