THE ORCHID Review. 
Vot. III.] NOVEMBER, 1895. [No. 35- 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held during 
November, on the 12th and 26th respectively, when the Orchid Committee 
will meet at the usual hour of 12 o’clock noon. At these meetings and 
throughout the winter exhibits may be removed at four o’clock. 
A supplement to the Gardeners’ Chronicle for October 12th shows a 
group of three splendid Cattleyas from the collection of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart.—C. Lawrenceana, C. Schreedere, and C. Mendelii. The 
first-named is the magnificent specimen to which a Silver Flora Medal was 
awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society on April gth last, a well- 
merited compliment to Mr. W. H. White. The plant measured three feet 
across, and bore thirteen spikes, the best having eleven flowers. 
A fine flower of Cattleya Dowiana chrysotoxa comes from the collection 
of G. H. Rolls, Esq., of Bournemouth. The sepals and petals are clear 
yellow, and the lip uniformly rich purple-crimson, with the golden-yellow 
nerves not extending quite to the apex. It is from a recently-imported 
plant. ree 
This species has been flowering very finely in the collection of R. 
Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, under the care of Mr. Roberts, over 
a hundred flowers having already expanded, while many others were still in 
bud. It would appear that the fine weather of the past season has been 
specially favourable to the growth of this handsome species. 
There is a form of Lelia tenebrosa in several collections which is 
exceptional both in size of flower and in richness of colouring, which 
