408 _THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Jury, 1912. 
- For some two years now we have been, as you know, preparing for this 
exhibition, and it has caused to many of us much work, trouble, and, above 
all, anxiety. Now that is a thing of the past, a great load of responsibility, 
both financial and otherwise, has been lifted from us, and we are able to 
return to our ordinary work with the satisfactory feeling that our efforts 
have met with your Society’s appreciation, also with that of their Majesties 
the King and Queen and of the general public, and have resulted also, as 
you say, in a signal success. 
This fact is an all-sufficient recompense for our many labours, and I 
hope most sincerely that the exhibition will result in the advancement of 
horticulture in all its branches. This has been, and is, my constant 
endeavour. 
It is early yet to talk about the financial results, but, so far as we can 
see, there is little likelihood of any call upon the guarantors, by whose 
generous support we were so greatly encouraged and assisted. We look 
forward to having eventually a considerable sum in hand to distribute to 
gardening charities or otherwise as we may be advised. 
Thanking you for your letter, believe me to remain, 
Yours most sincerely, 
J. GuRNEY Fow Ler, Chairman. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. 
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EPIDENDRUM TRIPUNCTATUM. 
Tuis very rare and interesting Epidendrum has re-appeared in cultivation, 
a plant having been sent to Kew for determination by Mr. S. Flory, Orchid 
Nursery, Twickenham. It is said to have appeared in an importation of 
Cattleya citrina. It was originally described by Lindley, in 1841 (Bot. Reg., 
xxvii., Misc. p. 66), from a plant which flowered in the collection of R. 
Harrison, Esq., Aigburth, near Liverpool. It is a member of the Encyclium 
section, and was placed in a small group called by Lindley Holochila, on 
account of the entire or nearly entire lip. The pseudobulbs are clustered, 
and bear at the apex one or two linear leaves, some four to seven inches 
long, and short, one or two-flowered inflorescences. The flowers are about 
I} inches across, and have rather narrow greenish-yellow sepals and petals, 
and an obovate-elliptic, obscurely three-lobed white lip, which is slightly 
adnate to the base of the purple column. The column bears a short obtuse 
apiculus, and two small wings, each being tipped with orange-yellow, 
giving the appearance of three small spots, in allusion to which the specific 
name was given. According to Reichenbach plants of it were afterwards 
introduced from Mexico by Messrs. Backhouse & Son, York, in 1881 (Gard. 
Chron., 1881, ii. p. 38)... Mr. Flory’s plant agrees exactly with the original 
type in the Lindley Herbarium. Its re-appearance is interesting. —R.A.R. 
