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Dowiana Jenseniana, a very large and handsome form, having primrose 
yellow sepals and petals, with some purple marbling at the apex of the 
latter, and a rich claret purple lip covered with the usual golden veining. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, sent a good 
specimen of Cycnoches chlorochilon, two good Lelio-cattleya Xx elegans, 
Cattleya Eldorado, and the fine C. Eldorado splendens. 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during September, on the 11th and 
25th respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
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Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
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12 o’clock noon. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on September 6th and 27th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
1Ito3p.m. There was no meeting held during August, as inadvertently 
announced in our last issue. 
A fine dark form of Lzlia purpurata of the L. p. Backhousiana class is 
sent from the collection of G. F. Moore, Esq., of Bourton-on- Water, 
Gloucestershire. The lip is very dark, the petals well suffused with rosy 
purple, and the sepals lighter in colour. 
Two sprays of the pretty little Epicattleya x matutina (Cattleya 
Bowringiana @ X Epidendrum radicans 3) are sent by Messrs. James 
Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea. It has the general shape of the latter, with 
the flowers enlarged, the lip much broader, and the colour a pretty bright 
rose, which modifications alone show the influence of the seed parent. It 
is a very charming little hybrid, and was described at page 110 of our fifth 
volume. 
A very curious flower of Lelia crispa is sent from the collection of 
H. Heywood, Esq., The Warren, Birkdale, near Southport. The lip is 
broken up into three, two of the divisions forming perfect separate lips, and 
the third being united to the inner margin of one of the sepals, this orga? 
thus being half sepal and half lip. The plant is an imported piece, nOW 
flowering for the first time, and the spike of nine flowers has one other in 
this condition, the other seven being normal. The column is less abnormal 
than is usually the case in these peloriate flowers. 
A very pretty form of Lzlia-cattleya x elegans is sent from the 
collection of the Rev. E. Baddeley, Long Marston, Yorkshire. It is. much 
