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from which it is evident that this charming variety will soon be much 
better known. 
A good form of Dendrobium xX Ainsworthii is sent from the collection of 
F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, by Mr. Stafford, who 
describes the parentage as D. nobile Cooksonianum x D. aureum Ellerianum. 
The flower is of good shape, with broad segments, and pure white with a 
rich maroon blotch, which is less distinctly feathered at the margin than 
usual. Eight plants have bloomed, which are said to differ chiefly in 
colour, one or two being tinted with rose, and others tipped with a similar 
colour. 
A very fine form of Odontoglossum Hallii is sent from the collection 
of J. Wilson Potter, Esq., of Croydon. The flower measures 4% inches 
across its broadest diameter, and both sepals and petals are very heavily 
marked with deep brown. 
A flower of the pretty little Phalaenopsis x Hermione is sent by 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. The parentage is said to be 
uncertain, but is thought to be P. Stuartiana ? and P. Lueddemanniana 
g. The flower is prettily spotted all over with rose-purple on a lighter 
ground. 
DENDROBIUM x AINSWORTHII AS A WILD PLANT. 
Hap Dendrobium x Ainsworthii appeared as a wild plant prior to 1874, 
it would almost certainly have been described as a species, and evidence 
how comes to hand which shows that such a thing might very easily 
have happened. One of the plants in a batch of about three-hundred 
imported D. nobile, in the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton 
Grange, Stone, has surprised everyone by producing flowers of D. x 
Ainsworthii instead of those of D. nobile, and Mr. Stevens thought it of 
Sufficient interest to communicate. And in answer to an enquiry as to 
whether there was any possibility of mistake, Mr. Stevens said ‘‘ No! and 
to prove that nobile and heterocarpum grow together, I last year flowered 
both together in the same pan, from imported plants.” The two facts I 
think may be taken as conclusive, and it now seems quite possible that the 
hybrid was in existence as a wild plant before Dr. Ainsworth raised it 
artificially. At all events the evidence now published is extremely interest- 
8, and this is not likely to remain an isolated example. It may be added 
7 that D. nobile and D. aureum (heterocarpum) are both found in Nepal, 
Sikkim, Khasia, Assam, and Upper Burmah, though from which of these 
localities Mr. Thompson’s plant came I do not know. In Sikkim, D. nobile 
_'Ssaid by Sir. George King and Mr. Pantling to be very common up to 
33000 feet elevation, while D. aureum is found in tropical valleys up to 
