96 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May-JUNE, 1920. 
nevadense the resemblance to the two is significant, yet the broader white 
lip is difficult to account for. It is clear that we do not know all about the 
Odontoglossums of the Sierra Nevada district.—R.A.R. 
Eset 
HE meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society for the current period 
are as follows: An ordinary meeting at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on May 11th, followed by the Great Spring 
Show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Tuesday, Wednes- 
day, and Thursday, June 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, and the usual fortnightly 
meetings at Westminster, on June 15th and 29th. At the Chelsea Show 
the Orchid Committee will meet at 10.30, and at the ordinary meetings at 
II-45 a.m. The Summer Show is to be a Great Provincial Show at Cardiff, 
on July 6th, 7th, and 8th, the arrangements being the same as at Chelsea. 
The other July meeting is to be held at Westminster, the date being the 
13th, after which there will be no meeting until August 24th. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. ass 
The Manchester Orchid Society’s meetings prior to the August vacation 
are June toth and 25th, and July 15th and 2oth. 
CLASSIFICATION OF Hysrips.—Your correspondent ‘‘ Entente Cordiale” 
is right as to the lamentable confusion arising from the use of several 
different systems of nomenclature, among which everyone is free to take 
his choice. It was all to be done away with by an agreed set of rules, the 
use of which was to be obligatory. The net result of that set of Conferences 
is that everybody still follows his own particular system, and the effect is 
chaos. Let the Editor stick to the sensible rule of using the earliest correct 
name, and the matter is bound to come right in the end. The other 
systems will break down of their own weight, complicated by a set of 
unnecessary capitals and hyphens.—F.R.H.S. 
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{Orchids are named and questions Desa — as Be ape nt th Correspondents are 
requested to give the native country or parentage of plan DRESSED postcard must be 
Bote 5 by post is desired lokeent 7 rey bo postcards aouke ie used). Subjects of special 
varia be dealt with in the body of t 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. or) 
-B.S.—Photographs and notes received, sie thanks. The matter will be reported 
in our next issue 
Enquirer. —The € name should be written ae rubens, not Rubens, as it was 
given as a Latin adjectival ser to denote 
very interesting series, of whi en pi cect is unavoidabl. tponed. No. 7 
isa form of of Odontoglossum illustrissimum, and 8 of O. Titania suas 
E,.R.— Masdevallia tridactylites, Rchb. £, one of the best of the gnat-like species. 
Erratum.—The hybrid reported at p. 58 3 C. 
Yadie. Please corr — Pp. 58 as “ Cypripedium Sadie” should have been 
