THE ORCHID REVIEW. 145 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE VIRGINALE. 
A TRUE albino of Dendrobium nobile will come as a welcome surpise to 
Orchidists. Previously known white varieties, as albifloram and Amesiz, 
have the dark maroon disc developed to its full extent, while Ballianum, in 
which the disc is only present as a faint cloud, is not white. In the present 
variety, however, the flower is absolutely without a purple spot or stain of 
any kind, the only trace of colour being that shade of palest primrose in 
the lip which seems almost inseparable from the flowers of Dendrobium 
nobile. Such a plant, with the constitution of this well-known old species, 
Fig. 8.—DENDROBIUM NOBILE VIRGINALE. 
is indeed an acquisition, and a great future may safely be predicted for it. 
It appeared in the collection of Mr. Thomas Rochford, Broxbourne, 
ssrs. F. Sander 
among some plants out of a recent importation of Me 
and Co., St. Albans; a very small piece purchased with others for a 
Sander have now re-purchased the plant, 
small one, with only three pseudobulbs, and 
new growth. The remainder of the short 
1g to its being deeply imbedded in a 
very trifling sum. Messrs. 
which is said to be a very 
One eye at the base of the 
thizome was quite dead, probably owir 
large mass of the typical D. nobile when first found by Mr. Rochford’s 
Orchid grower, The general character of this charming variety is shown 
