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me and Messrs. Linden at the same time (see description in Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, March 11th, 1893, p. 300). Colour extremely rich deep purple, 
white at the basal half of the flower. Lip very long and sharp pointed, and 
with a very bright deep purple apical blotch. Near, in my opinion, to” 
elegans, but distinct. 
5. D.nobtle Ballianum. [Flower from Sander, 3} inches.] Flowers 
white with the slightest tinge of colour at the apex. Disc of the lip of the 
faintest rose violet surrounded with a light primrose zone. 
6. D. nobile murrhiniacum. One of the most beautiful of Dendrobiums, 
like Ballianum but immensely superior, apical area slightly tinged with 
violet, disc of lip very rich violet finely veined with rose violet, giving the 
plant a most beautiful appearance. Flowers size of Ballianum, but of more 
exquisite shape. 
7- D.nobile pulcherrimum. [Flowers, 3 inches.] Surface of the flowers 
like polished ivory, apical area slightly rosy, disc of lip dark maroon. 
8. D. nobile Cypheri. [Flowers from Cypher, 3} inches.] Like 
pulcherrimum, but instead of the tips of the sepals only being rosy the 
whole of the back is rosy to the base, giving the variety a very distinct 
character; the lip also is very broad, showing a fine whitish zone round the 
dark maroon disc. 
g. D. nobile pendulum. [Flower from Cypher, 34 inches.] May be 
described as very near to Cypheri, but with more colour and a large maroon 
disc with narrow white zone on the reflexed lip. 
10. D. nobile Statterianum. [Flower from Cypher, 3+ inches.] A fine 
flower very near to Cypheri, the distinction being that the lip is pointed and 
not reflexed. 
11. D. nobile Schrederianum. (Flower, 3 inches.] Very near to 
albiflorum, but not so absolutely white, with a slight stain of colour at the 
apex of the lip. 
12. D. nobile albiflorum. [Flower from Sander, 3} inches.] Lovely 
and perfect in form, of the purest white, without a trace of any other colour 
—except the disc of the lip, which is blackish purple, giving the flower a 
very striking appearance. 
13. D. nobile intermedium. 1 have not a flower of this available to 
measure, but it is small. I mention it asa very distinct old variety, known 
for many years to gardeners under this name. I have a plant of it, and 
Mr. Mills, of Bisterne, Ringwood, has a fine specimen, I don’t know in what 
other collections it may be, but old growers will recognise it under the name 
given. It does not agree with the variety album, described by Reichenbach 
in Gardeners’ Chronicle, March 15th, 1884, as that variety was stained with 
colour along the edges. The flower is of the purest white, and the disc of 
the lip is of a delightful violet colour—quite different from Ballianum and 
very much smaller, 
