232 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBER, 1916. 
is quite golden yellow. It grows from three to six feet high, and the spikes 
‘bear 12 to 16 flowers, of which I have seen six open at the same time. I 
know of only one locality, which is a land-slide in the middle of the forest, 
among scrub, and thus exposed to fullsun. It begins about the lowest part of 
the Odontoglossum Pescatorei region, and goes down the mountain side to 
the warm temperate or Cattleya climate, where it has for a companion 
Uropedium Lindenii. I showed it to M. Forget when he was here, and he 
was much strutk with its beauty. It is certainly one of the finest Orchids 
that I have seen, both for the beauty of its foliage and flowers. It isa 
rather fleshy flower, quite distinct from the S. macrantha type, and lasts 
well when cut, I send a few flowers, and shall be glad if you can clear the 
matter up.—CyYRIL ALLEN, Ocana. 
(There is a flower preserved at Kew, which was received from Messrs. 
Hugh Low & Co., in January, 1906, with the record that it was sent by a 
collector from the Cattleya Mendelii district, and it is evidently the one 
alluded to. It is labelled S. Ruckeri, and agrees completely with a 
specimen from the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., the history of 
which has been given (O.R., xii. p. 184.—Ep.] 
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33 ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. | | 
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WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, West ter, during 
September, on the 12th and 26th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society 
will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on September 7th and 
21st. The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to 
inspection from 1 to4 p.m. The following meeting is fixed for October 5th. 
Jey | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | 
Orchids are spel = BL vonage — her Ae as ier as Arun Cort. 
requested to give the nati ntry or parentage An ADDRESSED postcard m 
sent if a reply by post is fae (abroad, reply "Postcards should : goer ). Subjects of special 
jotevess “will be dealt with in the body of the work}. 
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F.K.S.—Cattleya Leopoldi alba. CC. guttata, Lindl., has much greeny more numerous 
flowers, and a very deeply cut lip, with a very narrow isthmus to the front 
C.A.—Sobralia Ruckeri, Linden (see above). The other two to be ONS, on later. 
J.H.—Bulbophyllum odoratissimum, Lindl. 
AMATEUR.—The safest plan would be to sow part of the seeds now and the rest in 
the spring. 
