THE ORCHID REVIEW. 473 
DENDROBIUM x NESTOR. 
THE subject of our present illustration is a superb hybrid—we use the term 
advisedly, having seen it in full flower a day or two before the portrait was 
taken—which was raised in the collection of Charles Winn, Esq., The 
Uplands, Selly Hill, Birmingham, and flowered for the first time in 18g2, 
when it was described as Dendrobium x Nestor (O’Brien in Gard. Chron., 
1892, 1. p. 718). D. Parishii was the seed parent,and D. superbum anosmum 
the pollen parent. The two parents are intimately related to each other, 
and both have the flowers scented like rhubarb, though they differ much 
Fic. 28. DENDROBIUM X NESTOR. 
in size and stature, and come from localities far apart. The hybrid is 
fairly intermediate in character, and bears flowers of firm texture, three 
inches in diameter, and of a most brilliant, glossy rose-purple, with a large 
deep purple-crimson blotch on either side of the throat. Everything but the 
colour may be seen in the illustration, which speaks for itself. The original 
description says, ‘‘ sepals and petals white tinged with rosy-lilac,... margin 
and front of lip pale rosy lilac, like the petals.” This is very far from being 
the case now, and we noticed the discrepancy too late to ask for an explana- 
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