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OcTOBER, 1913-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 327 
Leliocattleyas are in flower, and one of the best of the latter is L.-c. Priam 
(C. Harrisoniana X L.-c. callistoglossa), having soft pink flowers. Govenia 
lagenophora is a plant of great botanical interest, for it has a large sheath 
which almost envelopes the erect bulb and forms a receptacle for water. 
This sheath should be kept full of water during the growing season. The 
flowers are curious in colour, the ovary being bright purple, the sepals 
yellow, the petals purple intermixed with yellow, and the lip yellow with 
three brown spots on the upper side. Oncidium ornithorrhynchum and its 
pure white var. album are flowering well, and several] plants of O. varicosum 
are making a fine display. The three pretty little Pleiones, lagenaria, 
maculata and precox, are again in bloom, with a group of Vanda 
Kimballiana, a good plant of Epidendrum Ruckere with seven racemes, 
E. Cooperianum, Maxillaria grandiflora, and various other interesting 
autumn-blooming things. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A VERY pretty white form of Miltonia spectabilis with a purple base to the 
lip, is sent from the collection of W. Waters Butler, Esq., Southfield, 
Edgbaston. It is said to have been included with other plants as 
M. Moreliana dark var. at the Sale at which it was obtained, but proves to 
be the original M. spectabilis, Lindl. The two are known to grow 
together, and although the white was first described we are inclined to 
think the other is the commoner, and thus typical, form. If the plants 
were imported this might account for this mixture, for such a case was 
tecorded in our ‘pages in 1906 (O.R., xiv. p. 297), when M. spectabilis 
var. radians and Moreliana were figured together. All are charming 
autumn-flowering Orchids. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, West , during October, on the 
7th and 21st, when the Orchid Committee will See at the usual hour, 12 
o'clock noon. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October 16th and 3oth. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection of 
members and the public from r to 4 o’clock p.m. 
The impending retirement of Sir Harry J. Veitch and the disposal of 
the nursery business of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons of the Chelsea, 
Coombe Wood, Langley and Feltham Nurseries was recently announced. 
We now learn that the seed business, carried on at Chelsea for the past 
