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THE ORCHID. REVIEW. 
Vot. III.] APRIL, 1895. [No. 28. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held during April, 
on the gth and 23rd respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour of 12 o’clock, noon. 
The February number of the Kew Bulletin contains a thirteenth Decade 
of New Orchids, described by Mr. Rolfe, which are more particularly noted 
in another column. 
Flowers of the rare and beautiful albino, Dendrobium Wardianum can- 
didum, have been received from O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury. 
It differs from the type in having lost the pink tips to the sepals, petals, and 
lip, the yellow disk and maroon blotches being normal. It is a very 
charming variety. 
Cypripedium villosum giganteum is an exceptionally fine form sent by 
E. H. Woodall, Esq., of Scarborough, and being constant in character 
deserves a varietal name. Both the dorsal sepal and petals are three and a 
half inches long, the former over and the latter slightly under two inches 
broad. In colour it approaches C. v. aureum, sent with it. Both came 
from the fine collection of Edward Salt, Esq., which was dispersed about 
~two years ago. 
A note in a recent number of the Journal des Orchidées (p. 359) describes 
the male flowers of Cycnoches chlorochilon as very rare, in this aspect 
differing from other species, in which it is the female whichis so seldom 
seen; and it further observes that these differences are truly remarkable 
and, at present, inexplicable. The idea is, however, erroneous, as C. 
chlorochilon is in no way different from other species in this respect. In 
fact, the males are common, and had been known for over half a century 
before we have any record of the occurrence of females. 
Another part of Fitzgerald’s Australian Orchids has just appeared, 
containing figures -of several remarkable terrestrial species, together with 
