DECEMBER, 1913] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 383 
interesting biographical sketch of the late Editor. His successor is Mr. 
Charles H. Curtis, who has long held the post of Assistant Editor. 
R.H.S. ScrENTIFIC COMMITTEE.—The following reference to Orchids 
exhibited at meetings of the Committee are taken from the official report 
(continued from page 296) :— 
November 4th :— 
ORGANISMS IN AN ORCHID HOUSE.—Some curious seeds were referred to 
the Committee by the Orchid Committee, to whom they had been sent as 
insects which infested an Orchid house, without, however, any damage 
being traceable to them. They were the seeds of some plant, probably an 
Oxalis, which had been scattered by the plant over the house, and bore a 
distinct resemblance to minute beetles without legs. 
PELorIc CATTLEYA.—Mr. G. Wilson showed a peloric form of Cattleya 
labiata alba, remarking that peloric forms of albinos were decidedly rare. 
NOVEMBER 18th :— 
CATASETUM MACROCARPUM.—Mr. R. A. Rolfe exhibited, from the 
collection of Mr. G. Rae Fraser, Letchmore Heath, Herts., an inflorescence 
of eight male flowers of Catasetum macrocarpum. Paraic flowers from 
the same plant have been before the Committee on two occasions, in 
October, 1910, and November, 1912. In the interval the plant has made 
two futile attempts to flower, but this year it has produced the male 
inflorescence above-mentioned. thus enabling the species to be certainly 
identified. Both inflorescences are being preserved at Kew, and the plant 
has now been presented to the collection, Mr. Fraser having another plant. 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE WITH THREE LIPs.—Mr. Rolfe also exhibited, 
from the collection of Mr. Albert Pam, Wormley Bury, Broxbourne, a 
twin-flowered scape of Cypripedium insigne, in which the upper flower was 
normal, but the lower had three lips, as in the well-known variety Oddity. 
In this case the two lateral sepals are developed separately, and diverge 
laterally, the dorsal sepal is reduced in breadth, and the petals are 
metamorphosed into lips, which clasp the normal lip. 
DENDROBIUM LEEANUM ATROPURPUREUM.—A fine form of Dendrobium 
‘Leeanum was exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on November 18th last 
by Messrs. Flory & Black, Orchid Nursery, Langley. It agrees well with 
D. Leeanum atropurpureum, which received an Award of Merit from the 
R.H.S. in October, 1900, when shown by the late Sir Frederick Wigan 
(O.R., viii. p. 351), and which differs from the original form in its very dark 
purple lip. D. Leeanum appears in importations of D. Phalaenopsis, and 
is believed to be a natural hy brid between that species and D. superbiens. 
Its history was given at p. 334 of our third volume.—R.A.R. 
