THE ORCHID REVIEW. 

 SOCIETIES. 



A meeting of the above Society was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham 

 Gate, Westminster, on February nth, when a good display of Orchids 



J. T. Bennett-Poe, Esq., Holmewood, Cheshunt (gr. Mr. Downes), 

 received a Cultural Commendation for a fine plant of Ipsea speciosa, 

 bearing six spikes of large yellow flowers. 



Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunnersbury House, Acton (gr. Mr. 

 Hudson), showed four fine flowers of Cattleya Trianas Maria?, a large and 

 handsome form, having silvery-white sepals and petals, delicately tinged 

 and veined with pink, and the front of the lip deep magenta crimson, with 

 two yellow blotches in the throat. 



J. Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), exhibited a 

 handsome form of Dendrobium nobile, pure white in colour, but with a 

 sulphur-yellow disc to the lip, thus referable to D. n. virginale ; D. X 

 euosmum Eleanor (X endocharis X nobile nobilius), a white flower, having 

 the segments tinged with rose ; D. nobile albifiorum, and a good form of 

 D. Ainsworthii, called Gatton Park variety, having primrose-tinted flowers. 



H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), showed 

 the curious Sikkim Cirrhopetalum appendiculatum, and a pale green 

 Eulophia species. 



E. C. Bliss, Esq., Tulse Hill (gr. Mr. Parker), showed a well grown 

 example of Coelogyne cristata, bearing numerous flower spikes. 



The Rev. F. Paynter, Stoke Hill, Guildford (gr. Mr. Cooke), showed a 

 pretty hybrid Cypripedium, of unrecorded parentage, but it strongly 

 resembled C. X tesselatum porphyreum, with the dorsal sepal more 

 strongly lined. 



W. M. Low, Esq., Wellesbourne, Warwick (gr. Mr. Liney), exhibited a 

 good form of Odontoglossum X loochristiense, having yellow flowers, 

 heavily blotched with brown. 



Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, staged a fine group of hybrids, for 

 which a Silver flora Medal was awarded. Included were Dendrobium X 

 Wardiano-japonicum, D. X Wiganiae xanthochilum, D. X Cordelia, the 

 pale-yellow D. X Imogene (signatum X euosmum leucopterum), the bright 

 yellow D. X Ophir (aureum X signatum), Phalaenopsis X Hebe (rosea X 

 Sanderiana), P. X Ariadne (X Stuartiana X Aphrodite), a dark scarlet 

 form of Epidendrum X O'Brienianum, Cattleya X Miranda (amethystoglossa 

 X Trianae), Laelio-cattleya X Myra, L.-c. X Doris (L. harpophylla X C. 

 Trianae), Laelia X Edissa, and L. X Mrs. M. Gratrix. Laelio-cattleya X 

 Queen Alexandra (L.-c. X bella X C. Trianaa) received a First-class 



