THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 

 Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, on the 2nd and 23rd, when the 

 Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o'clock noon. 



The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 

 Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on September nth. 

 The Committee meets at 11.30 a.m., and the exhibits are open to inspection 

 jfrom 12.30 to 3 p.m. 



A fine flower of Lselio-cattleya X elegans Broomeana is sent from the 

 ■collection of Joseph Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno. It is one of 

 the best dark coloured forms known, the sepals and petals being of a rich 

 ■ dark purple, slightly paler at the base, and the front lobe of the lip of a 

 still darker tint, and nearly two inches broad, while the side lobes are 

 .creamy white with the reflexed tips of the deepest richest purple. 



A remarkable flower of Cattleya Leopoldi is also sent from the same 

 •collection, the parts being reduced to two sepals and a pair of lips, alter- 

 nating with the sepals, and enfolding the column which is also abnormal. 

 A similar dimerous form has previously been recorded in two or three other 

 rspecies. 



A two flowered inflorescence of the pretty Lselio-cattleya X Issy 

 t(L. tenebrosa X C. Leopoldi) is sent from the collection of Sir James 

 Hamilton, Manderston, Duns, N.B., by Mr. Hamilton. It most resembles 

 the latter parent in shape, but that the sepals and petals are longer, and 

 .more acute, with the petals somewhat undulate. The colour of these organs 

 is fairly intermediate, with a trace of the Leopoldi spotting, while the side 

 lobes of the lip are white, tinged with lilac, and the front lobe and disc of 

 a clear purple crimson. It is one of Messrs. Charlesworth's hybrids, and 

 was described at page 303 of our last volume. 



An interesting but puzzling flower is sent from the collection of 

 R. Tunstill, Esq., of Burnley, by Mr. Balmforth. It was purchased last 

 year as Cattleya X O'Brieniana, but proves to have much larger side 

 lobes. C. X O'Brieniana is a supposed natural hybrid between C. dolosa 

 and C. Loddigesii, but Mr. Tunstill's plant has the side lobes almost or quite 

 as large as in the last named, though the flower differs in other respects. 

 The pollinia seem to be those of Cattleya proper, but we do not see what 

 combination of species would yield such a plant. A hybrid from C. dolosa 

 should show more or less dwarfed side lobes to the lip, also a dwarfed 

 habit, and whether the latter applies to the present plant we do not know. 



