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wrote to the Secretary, who could not find any record about it. As the 

 facts stand at present L.-c. X Truffautiana seems to have been the first 

 published name, and M. Ch. Maron has written to Le Jardin (1902, p. 103) 

 protesting against the substitution of L.-c. X luminosa for L.-c. X 

 Truffautiana. We should like to know whether there is any record of 

 L.-c. X luminosa being exhibited in 1900, in which case it would be 

 the earlier name. In any case it has since been recorded, and in view 

 of the uncertainty mentioned we retain it. We hope to see the doubtful 

 point cleared up. 



A DENDROBIUM BRYMERIANUM HYBRID. 



In a very interesting article entitled " Dendrobium Brymerianum as a 

 Parent," which appeared in these pages last November (page 340). Mr. R. 

 G. Thwaites alluded to seedling plants of Dendrobium Brymerianum X D. 

 nobile nobilius which were said to be in existence. We do not know the 

 whereabouts of these seedlings, but Mr. Thwaites and others will be glad to 

 hear that a nearly identical hybrid has now flowered, in the collection of 

 H.J. Hunter, Esq., Grange Loan, Edinburgh. Mr. Hunter writes :—" I 

 am sending you a bloom of Dendrobium Brymerianum, seed parent, crossed 

 with D. nobile, pollen parent. You will observe that the prepotency of 

 nobile has eliminated the features of Brymerianum to a considerable extent; 

 still, enough remains to render the cross interesting. The flower was 

 fertilised in March, 1894, the seed sown in March of the following year, and 

 the plant flowered in April, 1902." This is extremely interesting, especially 

 when we remember the large number of crosses attempted by Mr. Thwaites, 

 without success, and it should encourage him and others to persevere. 



Dendrobium X Hunteri.— We now come to the characters of the 

 hybrid. The flower sent bears a general resemblance to a light form of 

 D. nobile— rather smaller, probably because weak at the first time of 

 flowering— with a distinct zone of bright yellow round the light maroon 

 blotch; but there is no trace of the remarkably fringed lip of D. 

 Brymerianum, nor can the colour of this parent be detected in the sepals 

 and petals. These organs are narrower than in D. nobile, and all of them 

 have a distinct twist, the cause of which is not quite apparent. The sepals 

 are slightly over i| inches long, by 4 to 5 lines broad, and delicate blush- 

 pink in colour, and the petals are 8 lines broad, and blush pink in the upper 

 half, but paler below, which paler colour extends right round the margin, 

 and thus the light pink area fails to reach the margin, a character which 

 is at least unusual in D. nobile. The lip has the general shape of 

 D. nobile, but is much more open, and the side lobes do not quite meet at 

 the base. The apex is recurved, and the greatest breadth at present 



