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plant is said to bear a strong likeness to S. X macrochilum, but the colour 
cream-white with the tips tinted with pale lilac. This hybrid was raised in 
the collection of W. Vanner, Esq., from S. X grande ? and S. x Sedeni 
candidulum ¢, and was originally described at page 166 of our first volume, 
where the absence of any resemblance to the mother plant was pointed out, 
though enquiry had elicited the fact that there was no possible doubt about 
the parentage. The abnormal flower now shows the influence of S. X 
grande and of its progenitor S. caudatum, which is decidedly interesting. 
A fine three-flowered raceme of Dendrobium Wardianum comes from 
R. C. Bayne, Esq., Glenmara, Wimbledon Park, and this gentleman points 
out a curious character respecting it which we do not remember to have 
noticed before. It is that in the evening it has an aromatic scent, some- 
thing approaching cloves. This we have confirmed on two successive 
evenings, though the scent was not perceptible during the day time. It 
would be interesting to know if the character is general, and if it has been 
recorded before. 
A plant of Cycnoches Egertonianum in the Orchid house at Kew 
is now bearing a raceme nearly two feet long, with fifteen of its remarkable 
dull purple flowers—all being males. 
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DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM. 
WE have received two striking forms of Dendrobium Wardianum from C. 
Winn, Esq., The Uplands, Selly Hill, Birmingham, which furnishes an 
opportunity to give a brief account of the forms of this handsome plant. 
The peculiarity of the first is the unusual size of the blotches on the lip, 
which measure half-an-inch in diameter, and the colour very deep blackish 
maroon, a character which perhaps merits a distinctive varietal name. It 
is typical in other respects. The second form is pure white with the 
exception of the yellow disc of the lip, on which occur two small very light- 
brown spots in the usual position. Strange to say this pliant has always 
flowered before without any trace of the light-brown spots, being, in fact, 
the variety album. A similar form was exhibited by M. Madoux at a 
meeting of the Brussels Orchideene in April, 1894. Owing to the above 
circumstance it will be interesting to watch the behaviour of the plant 
in future, to see if the peculiarity is permanent. 
The species was originally introduced from Assam by Simons, in 1856, 
and soon afterwards flowered in Messrs. Jackson’s Nursery, at Kingston, 
and in one or two other collections, being at first figured as a variety 
of D. Falconeri, but afterwards under the above name—after Dr. Ward, of 
‘Southan pton, who also flowered it, 
