THE © ORCHIDEENNE ” OF BRUSSELS. 
THIRTY-NINTH MEETING. 
The thirty-ninth Meeting, held on October g th. in the corridors of L’Hortt- 
CULTURE INTERNATIONALE, was a great success. Notwithstanding the time of year 
and the unfavourable season, many of the exhibitors contributed some beautiful 
exhibits. This is not yet the epoch of splendour of the winter-flowering Cattleyas, 
but the various exhibits were nearly all very remarkable. 
Among the plants the most admired, we may note : 
The superb specimen of Cypripedium oenanthum, bearing twenty-four flowers, 
a number which is rarely seen in this hybrid; C. Argus, of exquisite shape; 
C. X Warocqueanum, very brightly coloured, and bearing on it the markings so 
characteristic of C. Fairieanum; two Odontoglossum crispum richly spotted and 
Laelia Dayana in a very large tuft, covered with flowers of excellent dark colour, 
exhibited by M. G. Warocqub; 
The new and very curious Odontoglossum Insleayt var. Imschootianum, of a 
clear yellow colour, except the lip, on which is a light shading of feeble traces of 
spots near the margin, which in the type are of a bright red; this remarkable 
variety is to O. Insleayi what O. Masereelianum is to O. sceptrum ; Cattleya aurea, 
Odontoglossum bictoniense album, well flowered; O. Insleayt leopardinum, of a beau- 
tiful bright colour ; Cattleya Loddigesi violacea, bearing a cluster of numerous beau- 
tiful flowers, and the superb Miltonia candida grandiflora, with broad segments, of 
a uniform clear brown, and the involute lip white, with a light trace of reddish 
violet in the middle, exhibited by M. A. Van IMscHoor ; 
The rare Miltonia Schréderi, with the lip richly spotted with bright crimson- 
red, from M. bE LANSBERGE; 
Dendrobium formosum giganteum covered with flowers of very large size, and 
Cypripedium Curtisi, of excellent shape, from M. F. PAUWELS; 
A magnificent clump of Oncidium ornithorhynchum, presenting a thick bush of 
flower-spikes entirely covered with buds and flowers, and of a floribundity which 
we think we have never seen equalled, exhibited by M. Cu. Van WAMBEKE ; 
Oncidium crispum, superbly flowered, Sophronitis grandiflora and the beautiful 
Lycaste Skinneri, from Dt CAPART ; 
The charming Epidendrum sp., with flowers of a dull reddish purple, with the 
lip bright red, from M. Garpen; 
Two interesting Cypripedium hybrids (Chantini X callosum and insigne X Ash- 
burtonense Annaerti) and Oncidium macranthum, with flowers of very large size, 
from M. Mogens; 
Cattleya Warocqueana, of superb form, C. chrysotoxa, with petals and sepals of 
a light and very elegant colour, C. gigas, Zygopetalum Lindeniae, Isochilus gramini- 
folius, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Warscewiczella Lindent, Cypripedium marmorophyllum, 
