THE ORCHID REVIEW. 175 
DENDROBIUM x CRASSINODI-WARDIAN UM. 
This handsome Orchid is specially interesting, as the first natural hybrid 
known in the genus. It seems to have been known at least as early as 
1879; for prior to April of that year flowers were sent to Reichenbach by 
Mr. Borwick, of Walthamstow, as a supposed hybrid, though the Hamburg 
botanist states that he was “then as incredulous as St. Thomas.” Then 
it appeared with Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., of Clapton ; Mr. Dorman, of 
Sydenham ; Messrs. Wm. Thomson and Sons, of Clovenfords (from Messrs. 
Low’s importations) ; Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea; and the 
Liverpool Horticultural Company; so that it is now by no means rare. 
And now a plant has appeared in an importation made by Messrs. Austin 
and McAslan, Cathcart Nursery, near Glasgow, in the spring of 1892, and 
has passed into the collection of Hugh Steven, Esq., Westmount, Kelvin- 
side, near Glasgow. A peculiarity of this particular plant is that it retained 
its leaves until the time of flowering, while plants of D. Wardianum sub- 
jected to the same treatment were deciduous, as usual. This may not 
Prove a constant character, as Mr. David Wilson, the gardener, states that 
the plants had a short season of rest, though all were grown together. It 
is an exceedingly beautiful hybrid, and quite intermediate in character. 
The habit is like that of D. Wardianum, with rather thicker nodes, and 
the flowers finer than those of D. crassinode, with the addition of a pair of 
dark brown, eye-like spots on the disc of the lip. When well grown, the 
long stems are perfectly wreathed with flowers. 
Dendrobium x crassinodi-Wardianum, Veitch Man. Orch., iii. p. 32. 
D. X Waltoni, Hort., Zhe Garden, 1885, i. p. 119. 
D. X melanophthalmum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1886, i. p. 426. 
_ D.crassinode x Wardianum, Hort., Journ. of Hort., 1887, i. pp. 312, 313, fig. 58; Rolfe 
™ Gard, Chron., 1886, i. p- 683. 
NOVELTIES. 
CIRRHOPETALUM RoBUSTUM, Rolfe.—No surprise need be felt at the dis- 
Covery of a Cirrhopetalum in New Guinea, as so many Indian and Malayan 
genera are represented in the flora of that remarkable island. But the 
Present species has also an additional interest, as it is the largest species in 
Cultivation, if not, indeed, the largest yet known. The umbel, bearing 
eleven flowers, measures no less than seven and a half inches across, and 
its peduncle is between three and four lines in thickness. It was brought 
from New Guinea three years ago by Captain Clarke, a nephew of Colonel 
trevor Clarke, of Welton Place, Daventry, and flowered for the first time in 
the collection of the latter in April last. It is a very robust and remarkable 
_§P&cies, as the following description will prove :-— 
