76 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CATTLEYA FLOWERING FROM RHIZOME. 
I HAVE about six large plants of Cattleya Warscewiczii (gigas), and as I 
could not get them to bloom I put them out of doors in all weathers from 
June last until the end of October. They were then taken into the house, 
as they were starting into growth. One of them pushed up a flower directly 
from a small eye on the rhizome, with no leaf and no bulb, which flower 
opened in January. I took a photo of the plant, but there was not much 
light, so I fear the prints are not very good, but they will show you what the 
plant was like. 
Oxford. E. A. BEVERS. 
[A remarkable example. The peduncle is slender, longer than the 
pseudobulbs (indeed, one-and-a-half times as long as the broadest diameter 
of the flower), and arises precisely as above stated. Thus both the 
pseudobulb and leaf were totally undeveloped, perhaps on account of the 
severe treatment adopted. The plant looks sturdy enough, and it would 
be interesting to hear of any other result of the treatment. We should 
suggest trying two or three different kinds of treatment, noting the one which 
proved most beneficial.—Ep.] 
A HYBRID DENDROBIUM. 
A VERY pretty and most interesting Dendrobium has been sent from the 
collection of G. F. Moore, Esq., of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, 
through Mr. James Cypher, with the following note :—‘‘ A hybrid Dendro- 
bium, D. thyrsiflorum xX nobile nobilius. Growth very like D. nobile, and 
the blooms produced in a similar way, three on the spike, and looks very 
beautiful on the spike.’’ The flower sent is much like a very pale D. nobile, 
altogether different from D. n. nobilius, and the sepals and petals are of a 
peculiar yellowish-white, except at the tips, where they are lightly flushed 
with rosy purple. The lip is also much as in D. nobile, but a little more 
yellow in front of the maroon disc. No one without the above information —— 
would think of D. thyrsiflorum as one parent, yet some modifying agency 
has been at work, and we hope to be furnished with the exact history of this 
plant. This is not the first instance where the influence of one parent seems 
to have been almost lost, and it would be a most interesting matter to have 
the whole question properly investigated. Will our correspondents send us 
any facts they may be acquainted with which bear up onthe question? We 
have no previous information of the above cross having been previously 
attempted. 
