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Vor. V.] NOVEMBER, 1897. * [No. 59. . 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, during November, on the gth and 23rd 
respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour— 
12 o’clock, noon. 
The November meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society are fixed for the 4th and 26th, at the Coal Exchange, Market Place, 
Manchester. The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are 
open to inspection from one o’clock until four. 
A fine four-flowered inflorescence of the true old Costa Rican Cattleya 
Dowiana is sent from the collection of W. S. M’Millan, Esq., Maghull, 
Liverpool. It has the dark lip and much marbled sepals and petals, as 
shown at t. 5618 of the Botanical Magazine, but very similar characters are 
seen in some of the New Granadan forms grouped under C. D. chrysotoxa, 
and it is doubtful if any character can be found to separate the plants from 
the two geographical areas. 
A series of twelve different forms of the beautiful Dendrobium Phalznopsis 
are sent from the collection of A. Darby, Esq., Shrewsbury, ranging from 
the typical coloured form down to the most delicate blush white. One has 
a narrow purple stripe down each petal, which gives it a rather distinct 
appearance. They have been cultivated from two to five years, and each 
Proves constant. 
A very pretty Odontoglossum constrictum Sanderianum comes from the 
collection of H. Brittan Evans, Esq., of Clifton, Bristol, in which the lip is 
large and very clear white, 
