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white ring separating the maroon disc from the rose purple margin and apex. 
Other beautiful hybrids noted were D. Cybele and the fine var. elegans, 
having quite the shape of D. nobile elegans; the very richly-coloured D. 
Niobe (tortile X nobile nobilius); D. Juno, D. melanodiscus, D. Wiganiz, 
and a form of it with a rosy suffusion; D. chessingtonense, D. Rolfez, 
which is regarded as a variety of D. nobile with the disc of the lip reduced 
to a few purple lines, though the evidence is not conclusive; D. George 
Woodhams (Sibyl x ?), with the apex of the segments rose purple and some | 
light purple suffusion and veining on the disc, somewhat recalling D. 
Rolfee; D. Buttercup (Rolfee x signatum), a charming light yellow 
flower slightly flushed with rose at the tips and a few rosy streaks at the 
base of the yellow disc ; two very different forms of D. Brunette (chessing- 
tonense X nobile), one like a small dark D. Rubens, the other pale yellow, 
flushed with rose at the apex of the segments, and some rosy markings on 
the yellow disc; D. Melpomene (Ainsworthii X signatum), in both pale 
and deep yellow forms, with small maroon blotches on the disc; D. Alice 
Bound X signatum, a pretty light buff form with a small maroon blotch on 
the disc, and D. Butterfly (Ainsworthii x chessingtonense), a very variable 
and beautiful hybrid of which four forms may be selected for note. One 
has clear yellow flowers with a sharply-defined ruby-maroon disc ; a second 
is pink with a flush of yellow and a larger half-feathered disc; a third is 
white with rosy tips, and a feathered maroon disc; and the last yellow, 
strongly flushed with pink on the sepals and apex of the petals, and a large, 
tuby-maroon, strongly-feathered disc, leaving only a yellow margin round 
the lip—the two latter very charming forms. 
The list could be much prolonged, did space permit, and a good many 
others were not then in bloom. A plant of D. nobile nobilius carried a fine 
capsule of the preceding year, and was again flowering. On the back wall 
of the corridor we noticed some healthy plants of Cattleya citrina, the 
position apparently suiting them, while other Cattleyas suspended from the 
roof were in thriving condition. There was also a plant of the rare 
Epidendrum Ellisii in flower. Many interesting things were in bloom in 
the other houses, but an account of them must be deferred. 
A DENDROBIUM NOBILE FREAK.—A well-bloomed plant of D. nobile at 
Kew has produced a two-flowered inflorescense, in which one flower was 
typical and the other a freak, indistinguishable from D. n. Cooksonianum, 
which latter has been recognised as a permanent freak from the outset. 
Shortly afterwards a solitary flower appeared on the same plant, exactly 
like an exceptionally large flower of this freak variety. It recalls the 
case figured at page 137 of our twenty-second volume, where a typical raceme 
and a Cooksonianum-like freak, appeared on the same stem.—R.A.R. 
