OcTOBER, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 3°7 
lip are openings between the lobes, through which the dark background is 
seen. There is a white-flowered form, called var. nivosa, and in this the 
leaves are green and unspotted, though in other respects it agrees with the 
type. This was exhibited by Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, at a 
meeting of the R.H.S. held in July, 1894, when it received an Award of 
Merit (O.R., ii. p. 290), but it has since apparently been lost sight of. 
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RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
FTER an interval of six weeks, occasioned by the outbreak of war and 
the requisition of the Royal Horticultural Hall by the military 
authorities, the Society was able to hold the meeting announced for 
September 8th. There was a fairly good display of Orchids, including 
several novelties, and the awards consisted of four medals, one First-class 
Certificate, and two Awards of Merit. The Orchid annexe was still in the 
possession of the military, and the Orchid Committee sat in the opposite 
annexe, where a good many of the exhibits were staged. 
- Orchid Committee present : J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, Gurney Wilson, J. Charles- 
worth, E. H. Davidson, W. H. White, A. Dye, H. G. Alexander, J. E. 
Shill, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, T. Armstrong, A. McBean, ae 
Hanbury, S. Low, R. A. Rolfe, S. W. Flory, C. H. Curtis, and Sir Harry 
J. Veitch. 
__ HLT. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), staged an 
interesting little group, which gained a Silver Banksian Medal. It included 
a well-flowered Miltonia vexillaria superba, Dendrobium ciliatum 
annamense, differing from the type in its very dwarf habit and purple 
mstead of yellow markings on the lip, Promenza xanthina, Cattleya 
venusta (Armstrongie x intricata), with lilac-coloured flowers and a 
‘ttongly three-lobed lip, two forms of C. suavior, C. Venus, C. Thayeriana, 
Odontoglossum Thompsonianum, Cypripedium Baron Schréder, C. pictum 
(nitens X glaucophyllum), and other interesting hybrids, several of which 
Were raised in the collection. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Hannington), 
Staged an interesting little group, including two plants of Cattleya 
Euphrasia, Odontioda Charlesworthii, two examples of O. Devosiana, 
with an unnamed Sophrocattleya and two blotched Odontoglossums. _ 
R. Brooman White, Esq., Arddarroch, Garelochhead, (gr. Mr. Smith), 
“ent cut blooms of a richly-coloured form of Odontoglossum Alice 
(Edwardii x spectabile), having violet-purple flowers tipped with white. 
