Sepr.-Ocr., 1920] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 159 
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HE fortnightly meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society, at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, as arranged 
for the current period, are September 7th and 21st, and October 5th and 
19th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 11.45 a.m. The meeting on 
October 5th is a special show of British grown fruit, when groups of plants 
may not be shown, but the Orchid Committee will meet upstairs at the 
usual hour to adjudicate upon plants submittéd for Certificates. The dates 
of the November meetings are the 2nd, 16th and 3oth. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. | eae 
The corresponding meetings of the Manchester and North of England 
Orchid Society, at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, are fixed for September 
and and 16th, October 7th and 21st, and November 4th and 18th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 1 to 
4 p.m. 
_ Aremarkably handsome form of Oncidium Forbesii is sent from the 
collection of Philip Smith, Esq., Ashton-on-Mersey, by Mr. E. W. 
Thompson, who remarks that some natural hybrids have appeared in the 
same importation. The flower measures over 2} inches in diameter “across 
the petals, and the lip is copiously blotched with brown on a yellow ground. 
The petals are brown, with a few similar sputs on the yellow margin, while 
the ample column wings are very closely barred with red-brown on a 
light-yellow ground. It is a plant to be taken care of. 
We learn with much pleasure that the nursery of M. Theodore Pauwels, 
at Meirelbeke, which suffered so severely during the concluding days of the 
war, has been largely reconstructed, and is again in working order. Part 
of the houses, however, remain for completion next year. It will be 
remembered that details of the catastrophe, together with an illustration, 
were given in our last volume. 
CymBipiuM OrRIENS.—This js a very charming hybrid from the collection 
of G. Hamilton Smith, Esq., Northside, Leigh Woods, Bristol, which Mr. 
Walker states was obtained from C. erythrostylum x C. Doris (the latter 
from C. insigne X Tracyanum). The sepals and petals are blush pink, 
closely lined with bright pink, in this respect entirely recalling C. insigne, 
while the influence of C. erythrostylum is very marked in the lip and column. 
The lip-is three-lobed, closely lined with red-brown on the side lobes, and 
with copious spots of similiar colour on the front lobe, while the column is 
rosy-red at the back. The three keels of the lip are yellow with a few red 
