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i THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Flowers of the handsome Odontoglossum X Andersonianum egregium 
are sent from the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch. 
The sepals and petals are suffused with rosy purple on a light yellow 
ground, and much spotted with chestnut brown. It received a First-class 
Certificate a few years ago. 
A very pretty form of Lelia purpurata comes from the collection of G. 
Marchetti, Esq., Manor Heath, Halifax. The flower is pure white, except 
the front lobe of the lip, which is prettily suffused and veined with light 
rosy lilac on either side of the nearly white centre, the disc being light yellow. 
Another from the collection of H. Greenwood, Esq., Highfield, Haslingden, 
Manchester, is more distinctly veined, and the disc is deeper yellow, other- 
wise they are very similar, and approach the variety Russelliana. 
We have received the programme of the 14th _ International 
Horticultural Exhibition of the Société Royale d’Agriculture et de Botanique 
de Gand, which will be held from April 16th to 24th, 1898. Seventy-two 
classes are set apart for Orchids, all the principal cultivated genera being 
represented, prizes also being offered for novelties, both introduced and 
raised artificially. A Williams Memorial Medal is offered for the best 
fifteen exotic Orchids in strong examples. 
A beautiful six-flowered raceme of Cattleya Lawrenceana is sent from 
the collection of W. H. Lumsden, Esq., Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, by Mr. 
Roberts. The plant has three such racemes with an aggregate of eighteen 
large and richly-coloured flowers. 
Several species of Oncidium have flowered among importations of O. 
macranthum, presumably because they so much resemble it as not to be 
distinguished when out of flower. Flowers of the handsome O. 
monachicum, sent from the collection of H. H. Noble, Esq., Mossly Hill, 
appeared in this way out of Messrs. Cowan’s importations. It is remark- 
able for having the petals united at their apex, sornine a ring, as is the 
allied O. serratum. 
Flowers of a very pretty seedling Cypripedium raised between C. 
Lawrenceanum are sent from the collection of Captain Hincks, of Richmond, 
Yorks. It isa form of C. X Gowerianum, and shows well the characters 
of its two parents. 
A very beautiful form of Cattleya Mendelii, sent from the collection of ~ 
John Falconer, Esq., Lasswade, Midlothian, has blush sepals and_ petals, 
and a pure white lip with very rich crimson-purple front lobe, and the usual 
bright yellow disc, A second form is very similar, but the front of the. lip 
