THE ORCHID REVIEW. 167 
DENDROBIUM X ASTRA. 
Another addition to the list of hybrid Dendrobiums has also to be 
recorded from the same collection, and this was derived from D. luteolum 
@ and D. crassinode ¢. The flower is cream-coloured, with all the 
segments tipped with rose-purple, the disc of the lip being deeper yellow, 
hairy, and with several radiating crimson lines. The sepals and petals are 
1 inches long. In general shape the flower is most like the seed parent, 
including the shape of the spur and the hairy crest, but the influence of D. 
crassinode is seen in the coloured tips of the segments, as well as in other 
characters. Judging by the flowers received it will develop into a very 
pretty thing as the plant becomes stronger. 
Ines ete sen ashi fesse iti 
CIRRHOPETALUM GAMOSEPALUM. 
A plant of this rare little species was exhibited at the meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society on April 23rd last, by the Right Hon. Lord 
Rothschild, and received a Botanical Certificate. As, however, it was 
labelled “C. Cumingii,” it is advisable to point out briefly how the two 
plants differ. C.Cumingii Lindl. is a native of the Philippine Islands, and 
is one of the many varieties introduced by the collector whose name it bears. 
The flowers are of a distinct shade of light rosy purple, the lateral sepals © 
linear-oblong, and the hairs which adorn the margins of the dorsal sepal 
and petals distinctly thickened or clavate at the tips. It is figured at t. 4996 
of the. Botanical Magazine. C. gamosepalum, Griff., isa native of Burma, 
and has the lateral sepals broader and more distinctly obovate-oblong, the 
hairs of the dorsal sepal and petals are not at all clavate, and the tips of the 
lateral sepals are whitish, while behind this the colour can best be described 
as marbled with reddish purple on a lighter ground. Both are very rare in 
cultivation, and when compared side by side the difference is very obvious. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x ANDERSONIANUM MARSHALLII. 
This is a very pretty variety of the well-known Odontoglossum xX Ander- 
sonianum which was exhibited by G. Marshall, Esq., Claremont House, 
Grimsby, at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held on April 
' 23rd last. It was typical in shape and the segments of medium breadth, but 
about the centre of the sepals and petals was a roundish group of small 
purple or almost violet-purple spots, which gave a very pleasing effect on 
the clear white ground. Several similar spots also capsule the front of the 
lip. It is a very pretty variety, and in the distinctive colour of the spots 
_ quite unlike anything we have seen before. 
