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wings. Why this normally suppressed organ should in this flower have 
developed as a petaloid staminode we cannot say, for another flower sent is 
normal in every respect. Had it developed into a perfect anther with 
pollen the reversion would have been complete, but in any case the example 
is interesting and instructive. From a florist’s standpoint it must be 
regarded as a case of partial doubling. 
A flower of Paphiopedilum Boxallii is sent by Mr. C. C. Hurst, 
Burbage Nurseries, Hinckley, in which the lip is curiously abnormal. 
One of the side lobes, though lip-like in texture, has developed as a small 
petaloid staminode, only adnate to the median petal at the base. The 
other side lobe has developed as usual, but is adnate at its base to the side 
of the column, and smaller than usual. The lip is thus partially broken up 
into its three component parts. 
A flower of Dendrobium Wardianum, from the collection of J. U. 
Hodgson, Esq., Higher Bebington Hall, near Birkenhead, has the two 
petals apparently suppressed, though in reality confluent with the lateral 
sepals, giving the flower a very curious appearance The other two flowers 
of the raceme are normal. 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE SEEDLINGS. 
SoME very interesting seedlings of Dendrobium nobile are sent from the 
collection of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne. One 
is D. n. burfordiense, raised from D. n. Cooksonianum @? X D. 2. 
burfordiense ¢, which practically reproduces the latter. Mr. Cookson 
remarks that none of the seedlings from this batch showed any trace of 
Cooksonianum, but whether any reverted to normal forms is not stated. 
The other three flowers are from D. n. nobilius ? X D. n. Cooksonianum ¢, 
one being identical with the pollen parent, one a well-coloured typical 
D. nobile, and the third has the sepals and petals irregularly marbled with 
purple on a lighter ground, but is normal in other respects. This 
character is constant each time of flowering. All these three, Mr. Cookson 
remarks, are out of the same seed-pod, and are out of the lot previously 
recorded in this work (vol. iii., p. 168). Both D. n. Cooksonianum and 
D. n. burfordiense are technically freaks, and it is interesting to know that 
they can be reproduced from seed in this way. What is the precise caWsé 
of their peculiar character we do not know, but suppose it to be due to 
some re-arrangement of the vascular bundles of the suppressed anthers. It 
is noteworthy that the seedlings are not intermediate in character ; they 
either reproduce the sportive character or revert to the normal, and as the 
markings are similar to those of the normal lip it is safe to infer that they 
have a common origin. 
