LOO THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
3,300 feet, so that at the lower elevation the two may grow intermixed in 
various localities. It may be added that the flowers of Mr. Thompson's 
plant are white, with the usual feathered blotch on the disc, and thus are 
nearer to typical D. x Ainsworthii than to its varieties, though not quite 
identical with any form which I have seen. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
DENDROBIUM X CLYTIE. 
A FLOWER ofa very pretty hybrid Dendrobium bearing the above name is 
sent from the collection of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, 
Birmingham, by Mr. Smith. It was purchased as a seedling from D. 
Findlayanum x Leechianum, and the flower sent is just what might be 
expected from such a parentage. It is of good shape, with the sepals and 
petals rose-purple near the apex, passing to nearly white at the base; and 
the lip bears a fine maroon blotch on the disc, slightly feathered at the 
margin, where also is a trace of yellow, the rest of the lip being nearly 
white, tipped with rose-purple. It will be seen that it owes its characters 
to the combined influence of the three species, D. Findlayanum, nobile and 
aureym, and that it must be classed as one of the remarkable series of 
secondary hybrids, of which D. x chrysodiscus and D. x melanodiscus, 
raised in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, were the originals. The 
history of these plants was thus recorded at page 16 of our first volume :— 
‘One of the most remarkable results yet chronicled in the genus was ob- 
tained by crossing D. x Ainsworthii with the pollen of D. Findlayanum; 
and vice versd. The seedlings began to flower in 1877. The first had a 
purple disc, and was named by the late Prof. Reichenbach D. X melano- 
discus, but the second had a deep yellow disc, and was called D. X 
chrysodiscus. Others from the same batch have been called D. X Luna, 
etc. So different are the forms that no one would ever suspect them to 
have the same parentage.” Other named forms from the same parent- 
age are D. X Hebe, D. x Dido, D. x pallens, D. x Rainbow, and D. x 
The Pearl, and the R. H.S. records show that these plants have gained 
two First-class Certificates, and five Awards of Merit at the Society's 
Shows, which speaks volumes as to their decorative value. It would be 
interesting to see the whole series side by side, for it is one of the most 
remarkable cases of polymorphism among hybrids yet known. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM XX FORTUNA. 
A very beautiful flower has been sent from the collection of Reginald 
Young, Esq., of Sefton Park, Liverpool, with the following note on its history: 
The seedling was purchased from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. in March, 
1895, when it was thought to be P. x Smithii, In April of the following 
