90 DENDROBIUM. 



Raised by Seden in our nursery. Flowers of the Assam or short 

 and slender-stemmed variety of Dendrobium Wardianum, as well as of 

 the Burmese or long and robust stemmed form, were fertilised with 

 the pollen of D. litaijiorum. The flowers of the progeny derived 

 from both crosses are identical except in colour, those derived from 

 the Assam form having the sepals and petals more deeply coloured, 

 and disc of the lip larger ; also the stems of the plants of which 

 this form was one parent are shorter and more slender than those 

 in which the Burmese form share the parentage. 



D. porphyrogastrum 



D. Huttonii X D. Dalhousieanum. 

 Flowers 2 — 3 inches across ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, 

 pale rosy mauve, the petals a little more deeply coloured than the 

 sepa 1 s ; lip pale rose-purple and white, with a deep purple spotted 

 disc ; the margin is ciliolate, and the spur short and funnel-shaped. 

 Dendrobium porphyrogastrum,* Rchb. in lit. 

 Raised by Seden in our nursery ; it is the most remarkable cross 

 amongst Dendrobes yet known to us. 



D. Rhodostoma. 



D. Huttonii X D. sanguinolentum. 

 Flowers about 2 inches in diameter, much like those of the. pollen 

 parent Dendrobium sanguinolentum ; sepals white tipped with purplish 

 crimson ; petals broader with a larger blotch at the tip ; lip purplish 

 crimson with a yellowish maroon disc. 



Dendi-obium Rhodostoma, f Rchb. in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 795. 

 Raised by Seden in our nursery. 



D. Schneiderianuni. 



D, Findlayanum X D. aureum. 



Stems nodose as in Dendrobium Findlayaimm. Flowers as large as the 

 best D. aureum forms ; sepals and petals white tipped with lilac-purple ; 

 lip orange-yellow with a large sub-orbicular pubescent disc, from which 

 radiate deep purple lines, and which is surrounded by a broad whitish 

 zone, apical area lilac-purple. Column with some purple lines in front 

 and a purple blotch above. 



Dendrobinm Sehneiderianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 209. 



The cross was effected in the collection of Mr. Oscar Schneider, at 

 Kallowiield, near Manchester; the plants were raised by Mr. Holmes, 

 gardener to Mr. C. Moseley, at Grange Thorpe, Rusholme, Manchester, 

 their present possessor. The large orange-yellow disc of the lip 

 streaked with purple is the most marked characteristic of the hybrid. 



From Tr()f)(j)vpn, "purple," and ynaTpoq, "ventral." 

 t Prom pooov, "the rose/' "rose-coloured," and o-ro/t«, "the mouth," "the face." 



