3i6 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



glossum X nobilior, and an Award of Merit for Lalio-cattleya X Canham- 

 iana Peeters' var. 



Messrs. H. Low & Co., Enfield, received an Award of Merit for Cattleya 

 Mossiae Arnoldiana superba. 



At the meeting held on June igth, the display of Orchids was smaller, and 

 the Awards were fewer in number. 



R. Briggs-Bury, Esq., Accrington (gr. Mr. Wilkinson), received First- 

 class Certificates for Cattleya Mossia Reineckiana magnifica, and Odonto- 

 glossum crispum Empress of India, and Awards of Merit for O. c. La Belle 

 Alliance, and O. c. Irene. 



W. Thompson, Esq., Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), received an Award of Merit 

 and a Cultural Commendation for both Odontoglossum crispum splen- 

 didissimum and Cochlioda NcEtzliana, the plants being splendidly grown. 



S. Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Range (gr. Mr. G. Cypher), received an 

 Award of Merit for Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes Gratrix's var. 



T. Statter, Esq., Whitefield (gr. Mr. Johnson), gained an Award of 

 Merit for Lselia purpurata Stand Hall var. 



R. Tunstill, Esq., Burnley (gr. Mr. Balmforth), received an Award of 

 Merit for Cypripedium X Edithse. 



PHALiENOPSIS MARINE. 

 The pretty little Phalaenopsis Maria has always been rare in cultivation 

 and of late years has almost been lost sight of; it is therefore interesting to 

 note that a plant from the collection of Dr. Hodgkinson, The Grange, 

 Wiimslow, appeared at a meeting of the Manchester Orchid Society, on 

 June 8th. The species was described and figured in Williams' Orchid Album, 

 in 1883 (vol. ii, t. 80, and sub. t. 87), and afterwards in the Botanical Magazine 

 (t. 6964), and is now known to be a native of the Sulu Archipelago and the 

 adjacent Philippine islands, having been originally discovered by Mr. 

 Burbridge, in 1878, in the main island of Sulu, at an elevation of 2,000 feet 

 above sea level, when collecting for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. Mr. 

 Burbridge states that only four plants were originally found, although a 

 large sum was offered for specimens of it to the natives, in whose language 

 it is known as the Rain-flower, on account of its opening its blossoms at the 

 commencement of the wet monsoon. It has since been collected in the 

 Philippines, presumably in Mindanao, for it is said that P. Maria, P. 

 Sandenana, and Vanda Sanderiana are abundant. It is allied to P. 

 sumatrana, but has a longer, more branched inflorescence, of smaller 

 flowers with a less densely hairy lip. The flowers are cream white, with 

 several large transverse warm brown blotches on the sepals and petals, and 

 an amethyst purple lip having a white apical margin. 



