116 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
DENDROBIUM X BENITA. 
ANOTHER elegant and very promising hybrid has appeared in the collection 
of W. E. Brymer, Esq., M.P., of Ilsington House, Dorchester; this time 
a Dendrobium, obtained by crossing D. aureum with the pollen of D. 
Falconeri, as we are informed by Mr. Powell, the gardener. It flowered in 
February last. The flowers are three and a half inches across, the sepals ani 
petals spreading, pale blush, suffused with light rose towards their tips, the 
latter ten lines in diameter and nearly white below. The lip is spreading, with 
a very large maroon blotch, and a blush margin and apex veined with light 
_ purple, but no trace of yellow on the disc. The growths we have not sett. 
: It is certainly a handsome thing, as might be inferred from its parentage 
for D. aureum has an exceptionally good record in this respect, and D. 
Falconeri has yielded one of the handsomest Dendrobiums yet raise, 
namely the beautiful D. x Venus. We hope to see it when it flowers agalll 
EPIPHRONITIS X VEITCHII. 
If we could reduce the stature of the rambling but beautiful Epidendrum 
radicans to a few inches, without impairing its floriferousness, or if a reduce 
tion in the number of flowers were compensated for by an increase in these 
size, a plant not unlike the one now under notice would be the result. It 
a generic cross, obtained by Mr. Seden in the nursery of Messrs. Jame 
Veitch and Sons, from Sophronitis grandiflora crossed with the pollen 
Epidendrum radicans. As regards habit the two plants are utterly dives: 
from each other, the one but a few inches high, the other, in its most robust 
State, almost as many feet. The flowers are also quite different in shap® 
but in colour they are almost exactly identical. In the hybrid the influence 
of the pollen parent greatly preponderates throughout, except in the ; 
of, the stems, which in the oldest plants do not yet exceed a few inches ® 
height, though they may become longer with increased strengtas 
Hower is like a glorified edition of the pollen parent, with a dash of Mi | 
added in the sepals and petals, a little more yellow on the lip’s dise, # 
more crimson spots on the same, two smaller tubercles and @ shorter 
Singularly enough there is scarcely a trace of the peculiar structur® isi? | 
mother plant, for the lip is flat, and altogether adnate to the long | ee 
column ; the broader petals, the less denticulate side lobes of the hp, 
the slight modification of the crest, alone show the Sophronitis 0™™ 
The raceme is shorter and fewer-flowered than in the pollen paren 
flower Over one and three-quarter inches in diameter, and the ee 
quite half an inch broad. Flowers of the hybrid and the two parent. 5F 
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