86 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May JUNE, 1919. 
repeated in almost all the later accounts. We find no record that the 
species has been subsequently met with, and we believe that the conditions 
under which it grows are still unknown. It evidently occurs, however, at 
a considerable elevation, for it succeeds well at the warmest end of the 
‘Cool house. R.A. Kj 
3 SOCIETIES. Ee 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
MEETING was held at the London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham 
Gate, Westminster, on April 8th, when there was a good display of 
‘Orchids, and the awards consisted of four medals and three Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present: Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in the Chair). 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, C. J. Lucas, Walter Cobb, W. H. White, 
W. J. Kaye, J.E. Shill, Arthur Dye, S. W. Flory, W. H. Hatcher 
T. Armstrong, A. McBean, E. R. Ashton, Pantia Ralli, R. G. Thwaites, 
Sir Harry J. Veitch, Stuart H. Low, R. A. Rolfe, G. Wilson, R. Brooman- 
White, and F. J. Hanbury. ; 
MILTONIA VENUS ORCHIDHURST VAR. (vexillaria x Phalzenopsis).—A 
particularly fine form, having light mauve sepals‘and petals, and a blush 
white lip, with radiating dotted lines of ruby red, and the disc yellow. 
Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. : 
ODONTIODA GLADYS SUPERBA (Odm. Pescatorei X Oda. Bradshawiz).— 
A fine variety, and shown in excellent condition, the plant bearing two strong 
spikes, with an aggregate of 54 flowers. The flowers are of excellent 
shape, the centre of the segments white, prettily spotted with brown, and . 
the broad margins rosy mauve, while the lip is blush white in front, and red 
behind, with a deep yellow crest. Exhibited by Dr. Craven Moore, Victoria 
Park, Manchester (gr. Mr. T. Arran). 
OponTiopa MarGaRET GATTON Park van. (Odm. armainvillierense X 
Oda. Bradshawiz).—A dark, nearly self-coloured variety of fine shape, the 
colour being deep mahogany red, becoming lighter near the margin, and 
with some light yellow at the apex and behind the deep yellow crest of the 
lip. Exhibited by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), received @ 
Silver Flora Medal for an interesting and varied group of Odontoglossums, 
Odontiodas, and various others, among which we noted good examples 0 
Cattleya suavior, C. Schroedere alba, the richly-coloured C. Empress 
Frederick Rosslyn var., Dendrobium nobile virginale, the deeply-fringed D. 
Brymerianum, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Epidendrum Endresio-Wallisii, 
Cypripedium Chamber- Leeanum, Cirrhopetalum Mastersianum, Cymbidium 
