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the two parents Odontoglossum Pescatorei and Cochlioda Noetzliana, 
which we also had taken, this showing the flowers reduced to four-fifths : 
natural size (O.R. xii. p. 209, fig. 34-36). It will be remembered that the 
five-flowered inflorescence was the sensation of the Temple Show in 1904, — 
the plant itself not being exhibited. The inflorescence is now very finely 
developed, and appears remarkable for so small a plant. We may briefly 
add that the ground colour of the flower is light cream yellow, more or less 
strongly suffused with rose, the large blotches deep salmon-red, and the 
crest of the lip deep yellow. A coloured plate has been given at t. 7990 of 
the Botanical Magazine. We hope that it will not be long before other 
seedlings of it reach the flowering stage. Such a success stimulates 
hybridists to further efforts, and we expect to see some striking developments — 
during the next few years, including a “ Scaret, blotched crispum.” 
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DENDROBIUM WILLIAMSIANUM. 
Ir is interesting to record that the handsome Dendrobium Williamsianum : 
has again been introduced, and has flowered in the collection of H. T. Pitt; 
Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill. Mr. Thurgood writes that the plant was — 
purchased from Messrs. Sander & Sons as a supposed new Dendrobium. — 
The old pseudobulbs are about three feet six inches long, and the inflores- — 
cence is produced at the apex. It proves quite identical with the original 
plant, which was described by Reichenbach in 1878 (Gard. Chron. 1878, i. 
p. 652), from dried flowers and a sketch sent by Mr. B.S. Williams, of 
Upper Holloway, which had been collected in New Guinea, by Mr. Goldie. 
It was not till eight years after that it flowered for the first time, being — 
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it received a First-class Certificate (G.C. 1886, 1. p. 172, fig. 32). Shortly 
afterwards it was figured in the Orchid Album, (vi. t. 252), where we learn « 
that one only out of seven plants sent home arrived alive, and that that hada 
narrow escape from being lost through an injury about three years before, 
The plant was sold to the Hon. F. L. Ames, N. Easton, Mass., U.S.A. : 
saw it in bloom, and we believe the species has not re-appeared in me 
untii now. The scape sent is over six inches long, and bears five lowe . 
which have an expanse of 2} inches, the sepals and petals being very pale 
lilac and remarkably flat. The lip is funnel-shaped, over an inch long, ne 
bright purple, with a prominent fleshy keel on the disc, which terminates 
front in three nearly membranous lamellz, a sixth of an inch high. + 
column is purple in front. The margins of the lip are appressed to the sides 
of the column, and there is a channel underneath corresponding 0 
keel on the other side. It is a very distinct and striking species. 
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