THE ORCHID REVIEW. on? 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
DENDROBIUM X GEMMA. 
Tus, as its name implies, is a charming little gem, a seedling obtained 
from D. aureum crossed with the pollen of D. superbum Huttonii, which has 
just flowered for the first time in the collection of C. Winn, Esq., Selly. Hill, 
Birmingham. The sepals and petals are ivory white, together with the 
apex and margin of the lip, while the disk bears a feathered blotch of a 
peculiar shade of light rosy maroon. The lip is well expanded, as in all 
the hybrids from D. aureum. The flowers are delightfully fragrant, almost 
like violets, and at present slightly over two.and a quarter inches in 
diameter. The plant is at present very small, the flowering-bulb being 
under five inches high, and bearing the same number of flowers. It will 
evidently be a most beautiful thing when it becomes fully developed. 
CyPRIPEDIUM MADAME G. TRUFFAUT. 
This very pretty hybrid received an Award of Merit on January 15th 
last, when exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., as recorded in our last 
issue (p. 64). We have now received a flower, which shows well the com- 
bination of characters, its parents, of. C. ciliolare 2 and C. Stonei 2. The 
dorsal sepal is elliptical-ovate, two and a half inches long, and bears eleven 
deep purple-brown lines on a creamy-white ground. The petals are deflexed, 
narrow, four and a quarter inches long, tinged with light green on a light 
ground, and densely spotted with largish purple-brown spots. The cha- 
racters are well combined, those of C. Stonei being most apparent, but 
modified by the influence of the other parent. . 
DENDROBIUM LUTEOLUM SUPE RBUM. 
A very fine variety of Dendrobium luteolum has appeared in the estab- 
lishment of Messrs. F. Sander and Co., from whom we have received flowers, 
together with those of the typical form. It chiefly differs in its enhanced 
size, but there is the further peculiarity in the flowers sent that the front 
lobe of the lip is perfectly flat instead of being reflexed. The petals are one 
inch and three-eighths long, by over five-eighths broad, and the front lobe of 
the lip an eighth broader still. In a series of flowers placed side by side the 
difference is very striking. It has the shape of the variety chlorocentrum, 
Rchb. f., but is still finer, and the hairs on the lip are not green as in that, 
but light yellow, as in the type. This species, unlike many others, flowers 
on the young leafy pseudobulbs, during the months of January and 
February, and when well grown is very attractive. 
