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DENDROBIUM CRASSINODI-WARDIANUM 
AND ITS PARENTS. 
THE annexed figure represents the handsome natural hybrid Dendrobium 
Xx crassinodi-Wardianum, and its parents, taken from plants which flowered 
in the collection of Mr. James Crispin, F.R.H.S., at Fishponds, near 
Bristol, last spring. The history of this interesting hybrid was given at 
p- 175 of our last volume, and it is unnecessary to repeat here, beyond 
stating that it has appeared on several occasions among importations of 
D. Wardianum, from Burma, and that D. crassinode is known to grow in 
the same locality. 
Fig. 17. DENDROBIUM CRASSINODE. Fig. 18. D. WARDIANUM. 
Fig. 19. D. X CRASSINODI-WARDIANUM. 
Dendrobium crassinode (Fig. 17) is well known by its short pendulous 
stems with much swollen nodes, and medium-sized white flowers with 
purple-tipped segments, and a large yellow disc without any brown spots. 
D. Wardianum (Fig. 18) has much longer stems, only slightly swollen 
at the nodes, and large flowers, somewhat similar in colour, but with the 
addition of a pair of brown eye-like blotches near the base of the lip. 
D. x crassinodi-Wardianum (Fig. 19) combines well the characters of 
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