es THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
- Yare in cultivation for many years, owing to the difficulty of getting it 
home alive, but since the opening of the Suez Canal this has to a great 
_ extent vanished, and the species is now well represented in collections. 
It succeeds well under the usual Warm-house treatment. . Mr. Ellis 
states that in its native habitat it grows in the lowest and hottest districts, 
generally on the edge of the forest, or where the trees are not crowded, 
and where there is an abundance of light and air. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
THE first meeting of the year was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, 
Westminster, on January 15th, when the display of Orchids was fully up 
to the average for this season of the year. The members of the Orchid 
Committee present were :—H. J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair; and Messrs. 
E. Ashworth, H. Ballantine, T. W. Bond, R. Brooman White, H. J. 
Chapman, W. Cobb, J. Colman, J. Douglas, E. Hill, A. Hislop, J. Jaques, 
C. J. Lucas, J. W. Potter, T. Rochford, H. A. Tracy, F. J. Thorne, W. H. 
Young, and J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.) 
Mrs. Briggs-Bury, Bank House, Accrington (gr. Mr. Wilkinson) showed 
a hybrid Cypripedium derived from C. Leeanum xX Calypso, and a very 
fine natural hybrid Odontoglossum, called O. x Fairy Queen, which 
received an Award of Merit. One parent is probably O. triumphans, and 
it may yet prove to bea variety of O. x loochristiense. 
E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Holbrook), 
received an Award of Merit for a plant called Dendrobium Ashworthie, a — 
native of New Gilined, ‘allied ‘to. De macro 
greenish white, the petals distinct] 
over the column. The ovary is downy, 
normally developed. ° 
a small group of cut Orchids, including 
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raised in the collection, an, and several hybrid Cypripedium | 
F. Bibley, Esq., Hard 
showed a large and richly-coloured form of Lelia anceps. 
phyllum. The flowers were — 
y stalked, and the lip curiously crumpled — 
and the flower may not be quite — 
» and Lelia anceps Simondsii, the — 
The flowers are pure white, bearing — 
small bluish spots on the. front. lobe. — 
Staines (gr. Mr. Ballantine), showed 
the rare Odontoglossum nevadense, — 
spum Sanderianum, a noble five- — 
wicke Grange, Shrewsbury (gr. Mr, Taylor); | 
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