T EeBWOR GHD REVIEW. 
VoL. V.] JANUARY, 1897. . [No. 49. 
NOTES. 
THE next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on January 12th, when the 
Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 12 o’clock, noon. 
A flower from the collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, affords 
some evidence as to whether hybrids come true from seed. It is a seedling 
from the plant known as Cypripedium X Dauthieri Rossianum, whose 
history was given at page 20 of our second volume. It was fertilised with 
its own pollen, and a seedling has now flowered which has the dorsal sepal 
irregularly striped with green and purple, as in the original form. The first 
seedling has produced two flowers, and it is interesting to note that the 
plant comes true from seed. A flower of a second seedling from the same 
batch has since been sent, but this has reverted to a well-coloured form 
of ordinary C. X Harisianum. 
A flower of Cypripedium insigne Pynaerti is also sent from the same 
_ collection, which it is said almost always produces twin-flowered scapes. It 
is of the C. i. Maulei type, but has rather large blotches on the dorsal sepal. 
A fine six-flowered raceme of Ccelogyne barbata is sent from the collec- 
tion of Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, by Mr. Young, 
together with some good flowers of Sophronitis grandiflora, including the 
brilliant scarlet variety coccinea, formerly described by Reichenbach as 
distinct species. It is much rarer than the typical form, 
