98 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A flower of the handsome Phragmipedilum xX cardinale Vannert is sent 
from the collection of W. Vanner, Esq., Camden Wood, Chislehurst. It is 
an exceptionally fine variety, which was awarded a First-class Certificate by 
the Royal Horticultural Society in February, 18go. 
A series of eight flowers from different forms of the polymorphic 
Odontoglossum x Andersonianum are sent from the Tapton Court 
collection, Sheffield, by Mr. E. Howarth. One is a very good typical form 
with clear white ground and many cinnamon brown spots; another is 
var. hebraicum, and the others are more ordinary forms, with both white 
and yellow grounds. Two forms of O. X Coradinei are also sent. 
Flowers of Odontoglossum xX excellens spectabile and O. X stauroides 
elegantius are sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton 
Grange, Stone, by Mr. Stevens. They are two very interesting Pescatorel 
hybrids, and the former has very broad segments. Two distinct forms of 
Dendrobium X Ainsworthii are also sent. 
A very good form of Odontoglossum xX Coradinei has appeared in the 
collection of E. Docker, Esq., Dudley House, Isleworth. The shape is 
good, and the ground colour bright canary yellow, with a few small brown 
spots on the sepals and petals, and a larger one on the lip, in front of the 
crest. It is quite intermediate in shape between O. crispum and 
O. Lindleyanum. 
An exceptionally large and handsome form of Dendrobium Wardianum 
is sent from the collection of Major-General Gillespie, Brynderwen, Usk; 
Monmouthshire. The flower measures five inches in expanse, from tip to 
tip of the petals, which themselves are 74 inches in diameter. The large 
purple blotch at the apex of the segments is very sharply defined from the 
white ground, and the two maroon blotches cn the lip are very large; while 
the orange-yellow ground extends quite two-thirds of the way to the apex. 
It is from a new importation, and several of the old stems are covered with 
flowers of the same size, making a very fine sight. 
A chaste and beautiful albino of Dendrobium nobile is sent from the 
collection of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne- it 
has the broad, flat segments and other ‘characters of D. nobile, and must 
be referred to D. n. virginale, figured at p. 145 of our fifth volume. The 
lip has a faint flush of palest primrose, and the column is green, besides 
which there is not the slightest trace of colour in the flower. Flowers of 
D. n. albiflorum, D. n. Amesiz and the true D. n. nobilius are also sent, 
and are extremely beautiful. 
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Shortly afterwards flowers of the same beautiful albino were also ee | 
from the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham : 
