Voi. VII.} APRIL, 1866, LNo. 76. 
NOTES. 
| THE next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
; Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on April 18th, when the Orchid 
_ Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
Two meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society 
will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, during April, on the 13th 
_ and 27th. The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open 
__ to inspection from one o’clock until four. 
Mr. G. Hansen, Scenic Tract, Berkeley, California, writes that he is 
_ Preparing a new supplement to his work, The Orchid Hybrids, and is 
anxious to receive dates of fecundation and time of first flowering of 
_ additional hybrids. Also any notes which are in line with the references 
_ already given. Even if the crosses have been effected previously at other 
Places, he would be glad to record any new instance. With the new 
_ Supplement he intends to issue an Index to the entire work. 
Flowers of Paphiopedilum Rothschildianum and its variety Elliottianum 
are sent by Mr. W. B, Latham, of the Birmingham Botanical and 
orticultural Society. It will be remembered that they were originally 
fescribed as distinct species, and the plants which produced these flowers 
were purchased as such some years ago. They, however, do not agree 
with the characters originally given, and it is now well known that both 
sa forms of the same species. One is fairly typical, but the other differs 
m having a broader, rather shorter and more concave dorsal sepal, and the 
Petals are spotted on the lower half instead of lined, the spots at the 
“xtreme base being few, small, and pale in colour. 
> A very fine form of Masdevallia Chimera is sent from the same collec- 
2 gether with a much shorter tailed form, which may be referred to 
Variety Wallisii, 
