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of O. X Wilckeanum, with a few red-brown blotches on each segment. 
The two latter are said to have come out of an importation of O. crispum. 
Flowers of the handsome Dendrobium Xx melanodiscus var. Clytie are 
sent from the collection of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., by 
Mr. Mackay. They were raised in the collection, from D. x splendidissi- 
mum grandiflorum X D. Findlayanum, and first flowered about eight years 
ago. The flower is light rosy purple, with a dark blackish blotch on the 
orange-coloured lip, which is tipped with purple. The hybrids derived 
from this cross are remarkably variable in colour. 
DENDROBIUMS FROM GATTON PARK. 
TuosE who had the good fortune to see the magnificent group of 
Dendrobiums shown by Jeremiah Colman, Esq., at the R.H.S. meeting 
held on March 5th last, will know how well these plants are grown at 
Gatton Park, and we now have the pleasure of noting a series sent by Mr. 
Bound at a rather later date. There are some very fine forms of D. nobile, 
including Ballianum, murrhiniacum and the pure white var. virginale, with 
fine forms of D. X Ainsworthii and D. x Rubens. Then there are some 
beautiful flowers of D. x Wiganiz, including a particularly fine form 
called var. splendens, together with forms of D. Ellisii (Wiganianum), one, 
called Gatton Park variety, having a bright yellow disc with bright 
crimson-purple veining on it. D. x Cybele, raised at Gatton Park, includes 
some very fine forms, one having a particularly broad orange-yellow border 
round the dark maroon disc, while the segments are suffused with bright 
purple on the upper part. Lastly must be mentioned four interesting 
hybrids raised in the collection :— 
D. Hildebrandii x D. Findlayanum has the sepals and petals white, 
more or less suffused with delicate pink towards the apex, and the disc of 
the lip clear bright yellow. It isa very pretty hybrid, with a good deal of 
the D. Findlayanum character, and may be called D. Bounpu. 
D. Wiganiz x D. nobile album (presumably the true albino form) is 
ivory white, some of the flowers being flushed with purple on the upper 
margin of the petals, while the disc of the lip is of a clearer purple shade 
than in D. x Wiganiz, which it otherwise most resembles. 
D. X Curtisii X D. Findlayanum has much the shape of the former, 
with a suffusion of light purple on the sepals, petals, and apex of the lip, 
while the disc is light yellow, with a number of bright purple streaks on 
each side near the base. : 
Another has white flowers, faintly tinged with purple towards the apex 
of the segments, while the disc of the lip is light greenish yellow without 
any trace of markings. It is supposed to be from D. x Wiganianum X 
D. X Wiganiz, but the point requires confirmation. 
