132 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Mr. Wrigley remarks that they never flowered better than this spring. 
A fine flower of C. Lawrenceanum atrorubens, noted at page 128 
of our second volume, is also enclosed. It is slightly smaller than 
the type, but much darker throughout, the dorsal sepal especially being 
very richly coloured. The plant was purchased at the Stand Hall sale, 
and originally came from Messrs. Backhouse & Son, of York. 
An unusually fine form of Cypripedium niveum has been sent from the 
collection of W. H. Lumsden, Esq., of Balmedie, Aberdeen, which measures 
3} inches across the petals. The dorsal sepal is nineteen lines broad, and 
the petals fourteen lines. It is remarkable for its unusual development, 
being typical in other respects, and may bear the name of C. n. majus. e 
A peculiar form of Odontoglossum x Coradinei comes from the same 
_ collection, in which the yellow ground colour of the sepals and petals is 
suffused with a light rosy tint, approaching what is seen in O. X Rucker- 
ianum. In other respects it is quite typical. The rosy tint of O. crispum 
is generally obliterated in this hybrid, and the present variety may becalled 
O. X Coradinei suffusum. 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE ABNORMAL. 
A LARGE but very curious flower of Dendrobium nobile has flowered in the | 
collection of Major-General E. S. Berkeley, of Bitterne, Southampton. 
the flowers on the plant are alike, having only four segments, namely, the 
lip, the two lateral sepals, and a fourth organ, which occupies the Poe 2 
of the dorsal sepal, though it apparently consists of the two petals confluent 
in one, as it grows from inside the lateral sepals, and is also much brighter 
in colour. Thus the dorsal sepal appears to be absent. The column is well 4 
developed, but bears no anther. Whether the peculiarity is constant 
remains to be seen. ' 
One of the flowers on a plant of Dendrobium nobile nobilius, in 
collection of Sir F. Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, is somewhat similar, 
as the lateral sepals and lip are normal, the dorsal sepal absent, and 1° 
placed by the two united petals. The column is very curious, as the no 
stamen (A x of the Darwinian notation) is reduced to a barren filamemls 
while the two lateral stamens of the inner whorl (a 1 and a 2, wit 
the fertile stamens of Cypripedium) are developed, and each contain ae 
The stigma is abnormal. This flower is very interesting, and the a 
ment is such as to show clearly the nature of each of the parts- Se 
of the flowers are typical in shape. 
