94 THE ORCHID REVIEW, 
ONCIDIUM AMPLIATUM MAJUS.—Gard. Chron., Feb. 9, pp.. 172. 173) 
fig. 26. . 
PHAIUS GRANDIFOLIUS, Lour.—Orchid Album, xi. t. 502. 
PHALENOPSIS MARLE.—Fourn. of Hort., Jan. 31, p. 89, fig. 15. 
PHAL=Nopsis x YOUNGIANA.—Gard. Mag., Feb. 16, p. 101, with fig. 
PLEIONE LAGENARIA, Lindl.—Orchid Album, xi. t. 503, fig. 2. 
PLEIONB MACULATA, Lindl.—Orchid Album, xi. t. 503, fig. I. 
SOPHRO-CATTLEYA -X EXIMIA.—Gard, Mag., Feb. 9, p. 83, with fig. 
SOPHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA, Lindl.—Orchid Album, xi. t. 504. 
CONTINENTAL NOTES. 
By CH. DE BOSSCHERE. 
THE January horticultural meetings both at Gand and Brussels had to be 
suspended on account of the cold, as was also the case with the February 
meeting of the latter. The Gand meeting on February 3rd was only pre- 
vented from being a blank by the ingenious contrivance of M. Jules Hye, 
who has constructed a kind of carriage in which to convey his precious 
Orchids. Owing to this fact we were able to admire a series of thirteen 
beautiful hybrid Cypripediums, of which eleven were derived from C. 
Spicerianum ¢ crossed with C. x Sallieri Hyeanum f. They are very 
charming forms, and bear a very decided stamp of their origin. The two 
other brilliant forms were derived from C. Spicerianum and C. Boxallii. 
In the establishment of M. Ch. Vuylesteke of Loochristy is a splendid 
hybrid derived from Cypripedium Hookere ¢ and C. Harrisianum d, called 
<. x Loochristianum. It is very vigorous, the foliage very beautiful, and 
the flower large and brilliantly coloured. 
M. Ch. Van Wambeke has in flower at the present time fine varieties of 
Odontoglossum Hallii and O. cirrhosum, also a very dark form of Lelia 
anceps. 
At the Horticulture Internationale we observed a good Cattleya maxima, 
the beautiful Cypripedium x Claudii,a number of C. Argus, Vandas, and 
Lelia anceps Ballantineana, and L. a. Hyeana. 
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ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at the Drill Hall, 
James Street, Westminster, on February tath, the exhibits consisted almost 
entirely of cut spikes, on account of the severe weather, and a few of these 
