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their pleasing shape and pure white colour, relieved only by a small maroon 
spot near the base of the lip; they are about two inches in diameter; the 
characters of the two parents being intimately blended. On account of the 
shortness of the internodes, the stems are quite hidden by the flowers along 
that part from which they are produced, a circumstance that greatly 
enhances the effect. It received the award of a First-class Certificate from 
the Royal Horticultural Society on March 13th last. 
CYPRIPEDIUM xX NIOBE VARIETIES. 
Among seedlings of this fine hybrid raised in the collection of H. Graves, 
Esq., Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A., are three which have received dis- 
tinctive varietal names. C. x Niobe oliganthum is rather darker than the 
type, and the petals are but little spreading. It is robust and very handsome. 
C. x N. purpureum is less robust, and has a smaller, darker flower. The 
dorsal sepal is heavily reticulated with vinous purple, and the petals, lip 
and staminode suffused with the same. Thus it has more of the character 
of C. Fairieanum, the pollen parent. C. Spicerianum was the seed parent. 
C. x Niobe luteum was raised from C. Spicerianum var. aureum Qand C. 
Fairieanum 3, and differs from typical C. x Niobe in having more yellow 
petals suffused with rich brown on the undulate margin, and the lip pale 
yellow suffused with sepia. All are very handsome varieties. 
R. M. GREY. 
DENDROBIUM X CORDELIA. 
Mr. Seden has certainly added one more to his numerous successes in 
raising the above beautiful hybrid. Its parents are D. aureum 2 and 
_D. xX euosmum leucopterum 7, and its descent may be thus graphically 
expressed :— 
D. moniliforme 
(japonicum) 2 D. x endocharis ?| 
Daureumf 'D. x euosmum v. tag x Cordelia. 
D. nobile ¢ leucopterum 2 / 
D. aureum 2? 
The flower is three inches in diameter, and, as might be expected, most 
resembles D. aureum in shape. The sepals and petals are ivory white, each 
of the former being narrowly margined with light pink. The lip, as in the 
case of D. aureum, is slightly three-lobed, the margin of the side lobes being 
light yellow, and that of the front lobe together with the apex white. The 
greater part of the lip is taken up with a large rich crimson feathered blotch. 
It is a flower of great beauty and will doubtless prove as free growing and 
floriferous as its allies. The flower has been kindly sent by Messrs. Veitch. 
