THE ORCHID REVIEW. 127 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE VIRGINALE. 
SEVERAL other albinos of Dendrobium nobile have appeared since the chaste 
and beautiful D. n. virginale flowered in the collection of Mr. T. Rochford, of 
Broxbourne, a figure of which is here given. Those which we have seen 
were not equal to the original in the size of the flowers, though what 
they might become with good culture remains to be proved. Any albino o 
such a useful species as D. nobile is, of course, an acquisition, but it will be 
interesting to compare later arrivals with the original, which, it may be 
added, measured 33 inches across the petals, so that the figure is natural size. 
Fic. 19. DENDROBIUM NOBILE VIRGINALE. 
EPIDENDRUM ELONGATUM.—Some species of Orchids are notoriously 
Variable, and the following note by Mr. E. Im. Thurn is interesting in this 
connection. Speaking of the Eldorado swamp, on Mount Ror’, Mr. He 
Thurn alludes to the beauty of Epidendrum elongatum, Jacq., "18 te 
varying in height from one to eight feet, its verbena-like clusters of wit 
Meee in colour in’ different plants, some pale yellow, some fawn ae 
Many pure rich pink, dark purple, and even mauve.” —T rans. Linn. a 
oi. i, p. 263. The species is in cultivation, but evidently shows to 
better advantage in a wild state. 
