166 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1913. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
FLoweERs of two. very diverse and pretty seedlings from Odontoglossum 
polyxanthum x. Rolfez are sent from the collection of E: H. Davidson, 
Esq., Twyford. One has pale yellow flowers, with very large red-brown 
blotches on the sepals, an occasional small spot on the petals, and a rather 
small lip with a large red-brown blotch, while the other is more yellow, 
with darker brown spots on all the segments, and the lip very large, rounded 
and slightly concave. 
OponTiopa Aspasta.—A very distinct hybrid raised by Messrs. 
Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, from Odontioda Vuylstekez X 
Cochlioda sanguinea. It has rather broad whitish sepals and petals, with 
large rose-purple blotches, and a narrow white lip with a large rosy blotch 
at the apex, and a few small spots round the whitish toothed crest. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE next meeting of the Royal Horticultural’ Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on Wednesday 
{not Tuesday), May 14th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual 
hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The next meeting is the Great Spring Show, to be held in the Royal 
Hospital Gardens, Chelsea, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, May 
21st, 22nd, and 23rd.’ Class 1 is: devoted to Orchids, and Silver Cups and 
Medals will be awarded according to merit. The Orchid Committee will 
meet in the Committee Tent at 10.30 a.m. Single plants for Certificate 
may be entered up to May 15th. 
A meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange; Manchester, on May Ist, on which day the 
Annual Meeting will also be held at 2.30 p.m. The Committee meets at 
noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from I to 4 p.m. 
R.H.S. Screntiric CoMMITTEE.—The following references to Orchids 
exhibited at meetings of the Committee are taken from the official report 
{continued from page 103) :— 
February 4th :— 
Lz#2uia Lunpu (Rchb. f. & Warm).—Mr. R. A. Rolfe exhibited, 00 
behalf of Messrs. Sander & Sons, a plant of this dwarf Brazilian species, 
remarking that it is allied to L. Regnellii, but is easily separated by ts 
habit of flowering on the undeveloped growth, a character which it shares 
with Cattleya Walkeriana. The leaves are narrow and fleshy, and the 
flowers solitary, pale lilac with a veined blotch on the front lobe of the lip. 
It is quite unlike any other Lelia in cultivation. Its history is given 1" 
the Orchid Review (xviii. p. 62). 
