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Dendrobium Endocharis,* Rchb. in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 298. 

 This hybrid has more of the robust habit of Dendrobium aureum than 

 of the slender, dwarf, tufted D. japonicum. Its chaste flowers, together 

 with their delightful violet fragrance, render it one of the most 

 admired of hybrid Dendrobes. It was raised by Seden. 



D. euosmum. 



D. Endocharis X D. nobile. 

 Flowers fragrant, as large as those of Dendrobium nobile ; sepals 

 and petals white tipped with pale rosy purple, as is also the lip, the 

 disc of which is maroon-purple surrounded by white. Column pale 

 green with some purple streaks below the stigmatic hollow. 

 Dendrobium euosmum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXIII. (1885), p. 174. 

 Sub-vars.— leucopterum (Gard. Chron. XXV. (1886), p. 488), sepals, petals 

 and lip pure white, except the disc of the latter which is Indian-purple, 

 paler than in the type ; roseum, sepals and petals toned with rose-purple, 

 which is of a much deeper shade at the apex, the apical blotch on the 

 lip deeper than in the type. 



Raised by Seden. The influence of the pollen parent is here con- 

 spicuously manifested in the form and colour of the flower, while that 

 of the seed parent — itself a hybrid — is chiefly noticeable in its fragrance, 

 and which suggested the name.f It is one of trie most beautiful 

 hybrid Dendrobes yet raised, especially the sub-variety leucopterum. 



D. Leechianum. 



D. nobile X D. aureum. 



Flowers 3 inches across, white with the tip of the sepals and petals 

 rosy purple, the lip with a large purple blotch with deeper radiating 

 streaks, and surrounded by a pale yellow zone. 



Dendrobium Leechianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVII (1882), p. 256. 



Raised by Swan in the collection of Mr. W. Leech, at Fallowfield, 

 near Manchester. It comes very near our own Dendrobium splendidis- 

 simum, from which, says Professor Reichenbach, it differs chiefly "in 

 the narrower, more acute,- and wavv petals, and in its lip being lobed 

 as in D. aureum." 



D. micans. 



D. Wardianum X D. lituiflorum. 

 Flowers with the glossy wax-like texture of Dendrobium Wardianum, 

 3 inches or more across ; sepals and petals mauve-purple, paler towards 

 the base ; lip nearly, as in D. lituiflorum, white with a large maroon- 

 purple disc, and a rose-purple blotch at the apex. 



Dendrobium micans, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XI. (1879), p. 332. 



* From kvcov, "within," "inward," and yapiQ, "joy," "satisfaction." 

 tFromtu, "well," and 007177, "fragrance." 



