January, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 39 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during January, on the 
7th and 21st, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o'clock noon. The following meeting will be held on February 4th. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on January 2nd and 16th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from 1 to 4 p.m. The following meeting is fixed for February 6th. 
R.H.S. Screntiric ComMMItTrEE.—The following references to Orchids 
exhibited at the meetings of the Committee are taken from the Official 
Report (continued from vol. xx. page 352) :— 
November 5th : CATASETUM MACROCARPUM, FEMALE FLOWER.—Mr. G. 
Rae Fraser, Letchmore Heath, Herts., sent an inflorescence of Catasetum 
-macrocarpum bearing six female flowers, from the same plant as the one 
exhibited on October 8th, rg10. He remarked that the plant has made 
three futile attempts to flower since then, and at the fourth had produced 
the present spike. Mr. R. A. Rolfe reported that it agreed with the plant 
figured as Monachanthus viridis, by Lindley, in the Botanical Register 
(t. 1752), from a plant which flowered with Lord Fitzwilliam, at Went- 
worth, which is now known as the female of Catasetum macrocarpum, 
Rich. It is not, however, the original Monachanthus viridis, Lindl., which 
is the female of another species. 
November rgth: ONcIpIODA X MARJORIE. — Messrs. Charlesworth 
& Co. sent a plant resulting from a cross between Cochlioda Neetzliana and 
Oncidium Forbesii. Several crosses between members of these genera have 
now flowered, and Messrs. Charlesworth were awarded a Certificate of 
Appreciation in 1910 in recognition of their work in demonstrating the 
possibility of uniting these genera, which, although sufficiently distinct 
morphologically, are evidently closely allied physiologically. 
December 3rd: La:Li1d PUMILA X LasLIOCATTLEYA OPHIR (Lelia 
xanthina X Cattleya Dowiana aurea). Mr. G. Wilson said this hybrid 
with cream-white sepals and petals and purple labellum was raised by 
Mr. R. G. Thwaites, of Streatham Hill, and was shown by him in support of 
his hypothesis that white flowers are produced by a mixture of red, blue, 
and yellow. 
HABENARIA R@BELENII.—This is a very striking novelty which is now 
flowering with Mr. S. W. Flory, Orchid Nursery, Twickenham. It isa 
native of Annam, and is allied to the brilliantly-coloured H. militaris. The 
flowers of the two are very similar in general character, especially in the 
shape of the bright scarlét lip, but the novelty differs in having the sepals, 
