222 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
NOTES. 
THREE meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, during July, on the 3rd, 19th, and 
31st, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock 
noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold a 
meeting at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on July zoth. The Orchid 
Committee meets at noon and the exhibits are open to inspection from I to 
3 o’clock p-m. 
A superb inflorescence of Lelia cinnabarina is sent from the collection 
of Mrs. John Hollond, Wonham, Bampton, N. Devon. It measures 21 
inches long, and bears twelve finely developed flowers, while a second 
inflorescence on the plant is but little inferior. When thus grown it isa 
most handsome Orchid, for its flowers are of a most brilliant cinnabar- 
orange colour—by no means common in the family—and are arranged ina 
-Most graceful raceme. 
_ A small inflorescence ot Odontoglossum crispum ‘is sent from the 
- collection of J. Wilson Potter, of Croydon, in which both flowers are 
curiously abnormal, one having both petals united to the back of the 
column, and the second has one petal united ina similar way. It illus- 
trates the tendency to cohesion and adhesion of the floral organs so 
common in the family, but may or may not prove to be a permanent 
character. 
The May number of Messrs. Cogniaux & Grossen’s Dictionnaire 
Iconographique des Orchidées contains figures of Arachnanthe Lowii var. 
Warocqueana, Cattleya Trianz Massangeana, Cypripedium x nitens var. 
Sallieri, C. x Helvetia, Dendrobium spectabile, D. Devonianum, Lelia 
anceps var. alba, L. Jongheana, L. superbiens, Masdevallia bella, Oncidium 
Phalznopsis, O. incurvum, and Pescatorea Klabochorum. 
A curiously abnormal flower of Paphiopedilum barbatum is sent from 
the collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., of Teignmouth. There are two sepals, 
which are partially united, placed side by side under the lip, and coloured 
like the dorsal sepal, which is either missing or drawn completely out of 
place ; the two petals also stand erect above the lip, like a pair of horns, 
and the staminode is absent. The plant has previously borne both normal 
and abnormal flowers, but the present one is more than usually peculiar, 
_ and has a very quaint appearance, Lo 
