DENDROEIUM. 



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D. splendidissimum. 



1). aureum x D, nobile. 



Flowers 3 — 4 inches across with a glossy varnished surface ; sepals 

 and petals white tipped with rosy mauve ; lip with an Indian-purple 

 disc shaded with maroon, and surrounded hy a pale yellow zone. 

 Dendrobium splendidissimum, Ecbb. in Gard. Chron. XI. (1879), p. 298. 



var. — grandiflorum. 



Flowers larger with all the segments broader ; sepals and petals 

 rose-purple at the tips, becoming paler towards the base where they 

 are white, the petals gently renexed ; the disc of lip unusually large, 

 of the richest Indian-purple surrounded by a pale yellow zone ; apex 

 rose-purple. 



D. splendidissimum grandiflorum, supra. 



Dendrobium splendidissimum grandifloinm. 



Raised by Seden in our nursery. This is the third type of pro- 

 genies obtained by different operators from the same or a vice versa 

 cross. The seedlings raised from all the crosses are found to be 

 variable, members of one progeny approaching so closely varieties 

 among the others that the original distinctions set up between them 

 cease to be appreciable ; we are of opinion, therefore, that the three 



