136 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
DENDROBIUM X _ BERKELEYI. 
At page 317 of Hansen’s Orchid Hybrids is mentioned a Dendrobium 
x Cassiope 2 xX Wardianum ¢ ‘under raising’ with Major General E. 
S. Berkeley, of Southampton, in 1895. It has now flowered, and a specimen 
is sent by Mr. J. Godfrey. In shape and size the flower is most like 
D. X Cassiope, but the sepals, upper half of the petals, and apex of the lip, 
are suffused with light rosy purple, and a deep yellow band occurs between 
the maroon disc and the nearly white margin. Another seedling purchased 
by Captain G. W. Law-Schofield has flowered, and is white with rose- 
purple tips to each of the segments, and a blotch on the disc instead of 
maroon, and without any yellow. A flower is sent through Mr. Godfrey. 
Other seedlings are in existence, but only these two are known to have 
flowered, and they are at present small and undeveloped. Mr. Godfrey 
wishes it to bear the name of his late master. 
DENDROBIUM X THOMPSONIANUM. 
This is a large and striking hybrid, raised by Mr. Holmes from Dendrobium 
nobile Cypheri X D. X cheltenhamense, of which flowers have been sent 
by Mr. Stevens, gardener to W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone. 
The flower measures over three inches across the expanded petals, the 
latter organs being seven-eights of an inch broad. The ground colour is 
blush-white, tipped with light rose-purple, which colour shades off some- 
what irregularly into the white ground. The expanded lip is 14 inches 
broad, and has a small crimson-maroon feathered disc, passing into 
crimson lines behind; this is surrounded by a very broad yellow zone with 
a white margin and a small rose-purple tip. The pollen parent has 
exerted a strong, modifying influence, especially in colour, and the strong 
yellow zone and reduced disc, as compared with D. x Ainsworthii, shows 
that the influence of D. luteolum coming through the pollen parent has not 
been lost. 
ORCHIS LATIFOLIA ALBA. 
ALBINOS of British Orchids are occasionally seen, and we have met with 
white examples of O. mascula, Morio, and maculata. Mr. H. Rider 
Haggard, in a series of articles in Longman’s Magazine, describing a year's 
work on his farm at Bedingham, Norfolk, records a white form of O. 
latifolia :— 
“ The finest specimens of purple orchis that I have ever seen grow in 
Websdill Wood, on my farm at Bedingham. Spotting the grass in this 
oak-shaded pasture, I found many splendid specimens of Orchis latifolia ; 
indeed, in half-an-hour I gathered as large a bunch as I could bind round 
with my handkerchief. Among them I found one pure white bloom, which 
