296 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DEcEMBER, 1916. 
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HE Royal Horticultural Society’s last meeting of the year will be held 
at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on 
December 5th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o’clock noon. The first meeting in the new year is fixed for January 16th. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on December 7th and atst. 
The Committee sits at noon, and the exhibits are open to the inspection 
of members and the public from 1 to4 p.m. The following meeting is fixed 
for January 4th. 
‘“THe ORCHID REvIEW.”—With the present issue the Orchid Review 
completes its twenty-fourth volume, and at a time of exceptional difficulty 
we appeal for continued and increased support. The peaceful arts are 
passing through a period of stress, and Orchidology forms no exception, 
but there is abundant promise of an increased activity when things resume 
their normal course in, as we hope, the not far distant future. The march 
of improvement continues, as our pages from month to month testify, and 
our aim has always been to record the history of passing events, and to 
maintain the objects for which the work was originally commenced. In 
this the continued assistance and co-operation of our readers is invited. 
Short notes or articles respecting events in their collections will be 
welcomed, also interesting flowers, records of hybridisation, and photo- 
graphs for reproduction. Finally we hope they will make the work as 
widely known as possible among their Orchid growing friends. 
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[Orchids are named se questions fade aed as ies as pesiees Correspondents aré 
pobre to give the native country or par of pl An ADDRESSED postcard must be 
sent ifar ply by post is raeaivnd ralread rep postcard t shold “ used). Subjects of P special 
interest will be dealt with in the body of t ork]. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Sei | 
R.S.—The disc of an Orchid lip is the central or basal-central age which usually differs 
some detail of texture or colour, as in the presence of keels or papillz, or in eing 
bee as in albino Cattleyas. These soviet are due to iaihinedsal influen nce, and 
pros the fact that the lip is a compoun gan, representing the union of two or 
metimes ooh stamens of the inner staminal shar! with the median pe! 
se pe erostylis pedunculat R. Br., and Drosera gracilis, Hook. f., both well-known 
asm base and the mea of course, not an Orchid. We doubt if ‘this particular 
Pesrsetytie has been i in cultivatio 
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