THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vor. VII.] AUGUST, 1899. [No. 80, 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, James’ Street, Westminster, during August, on the 15th and 
29th respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o'clock noon. 
The August meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on the 17th 
inst. The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are 
open to inspection from 1 o’clock until 3 p.m. 
We learn that the Society has again decided to award, at the end of the 
Society’s year, Gold, Silver-gilt, and Silver Medals to the three members 
who shall obtain the highest number of marks for exhibits during the year, 
on the same lines as those given last year. 
The issues of the Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchideés for January 
and February last are recently to hand, and contain the usual instalment 
of beautiful little pictures, among which we notice the rare Maxillaria 
Houtteana, Dendrobium ochreatum, Odontoglossum (Erstedii, Phalaenopsis 
Esmeralda, and the brilliant Lzelio-cattleya x Hyeana. An untortanate 
mistake occurs respecting Cattleya Loddigesii and C. Harrisoniana, the 
figures and descriptions of which are unfortunately transposed, as anyone 
may see who will compare them with the original figures. The way in 
Which these two names have been transposed in gardens has been alluded 
to on more than one previous occasion. 
A very curious flower of Paphiopedilum barbatum is sent from o 
Collection of the Rev. E. Baddeley, Long Marston, York, which consists : 
ne sepal, and one petal in addition to the lip. The sepal is underneat 
