166 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Commendations to Lzelio-cattleya x Hippolyta and Epidendrum Wallisii, 
which were certainly made, as indicated by cards affixed to the plants. 
I was very pleased to see these examples of good culture thus 
recognised, and hope that in future more of such specimens will be 
forthcoming. Nothing affords such a test of the cultivator’s skill as a large 
and well-flowered specimen which has taken several years of good culture 
to perfect, such as the plant of Epidendrum Stamfordianum just mentioned, 
perhaps the best example in the show. The specimen of Masdevallia 
Benedicti exhibited by Baron Schréder, bearing three hundred flowers, 
was also very remarkable, as well as the Epidendrum Wallisii shown by 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., and Lzlio-cattleya x Hippolyta, with an eight- 
flowered spike, of M. Jules Hye. Messrs. Sander’s plant of Oncidium 
altissimum was also very remarkable, but has the appearance of being a 
large imported clump. 
Two plants of the beautiful albino Cypripedium Lawrenceanum 
Hyeanum were exhibited, being subdivisions of the original plant, and it is 
curious to note that the one in Baron Schréder’s collection is not absolutely 
identical. The latter has narrower petals, with a row of light reddish 
warts along the margins, while the green is of a somewhat darker shade. 
Their presence at the Temple Show furnished a good opportunity of 
comparing them together, and to my mind the original lighter form is the 
more beautiful of the two. It is quite evident that they have arisen 
independently, and I hear of a third albino which is again different, which 
is rather interesting, especially when one remembers that the albino of the 
old C. barbatum has not yet appeared. 
ARGUS. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
DENDROBIUM X MuRRAVI. 
THIS is a very distinct and pretty hybrid raised in the collection of Norman 
C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, from Dendrobium nobile 
? and D. albosanguineum ¢, of which flowers have now been sent. The 
flower is most like an enlarged D. nobile, the petals being 2} inches long 
by $-inch broad, and the lip of proportionate dimensions. The sepals and 
petals are palest blush white, and the lip, which has the general shape of 
D. nobile, has a large light maroon disc, and a white apex, the margin 
being suffused with light purple. It is a large and handsome form, and a 
very promising addition to the group. It is dedicated to Mr. Murray, Mr. 
Cookson’s able gardener, to whom we are indebted for so many acquisitions 
among hybrid Orchids. 
