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Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., who will be pleased to forward reserve 
seat tickets to those applying for them as far as the accommodation will 
allow. W. WILKs, Secretary, R.H.S. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October 3rd and 17th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection of 
members and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. The following meeting will be 
held on November 7th. 
R.H.S. SclENTIFIC COMMITTEE : —The following references to Orchids 
exhibited at the meetings of the Committee are taken from the Official 
Report (continued from page 288) :— 
April 30th, 1912 : ALBINO FORM OF ORCHIS MASCULA.—Mr, Gurney 
Wilson showed an albino form of Orchis mascula collected by him in a 
field in mid-Sussex. 
May 14th: Hysrip OrcHID.—Mr. J. O’Brien showed from ar EBook, 
Clark, of Evershot, Dorset, a flower of an Orchid raised by crossing 
Lelia cinnabarina and Leliocattleya x G. S. Ball. The latter is a hybrid 
between Lelia cinnabarina and Cattleya Schroeder. The flower was an 
improved Lelia cinnabarina, larger and more open in the lip, but four of the 
pollen masses were large and four not quite so large, thus differing from 
both Lelia and Cattleya. Mr. Clark proposed to name the hybrid 
Leliocattleya Cinnabal. . . ; 
June 4th: OpoNTIopA CARMEN.—Mr. de Barri Crawshay sent this 
hybrid between Cochlioda Neetzliana and Odontoglossum nebulosum, 
showing characteristics of both parents. Hybrids with the latter plant as 
one of the parents are scarce, and a Certificate of Appreciation was 
unanimously recommended to Mr. Crawshay. 
July 16th :-— 
ERIA RHYNCHOSTYLOIDES.—A Botanical Certificate was unanimously 
recommended to this beautiful, though small-flowered Orchid, native of 
Java, exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, V.M.H. 
CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION.—A Certificate of Appreciation was 
recommended to Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, on the 
“suggestion of the Orchid Committee, for work done in raising Odontonia 
Edna, exhibited at the Holland House Show. 
July 30th : Hysrip OrcH1p.—Mr. O’Brien drew attention to a hybrid 
Orchid, Brassocattleya Thetis, shown by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. It was 
raised between Brassavola Digbyana and Cattleya Aclandiz, but 
practically all the — of the latter species had been ‘eliminated 
by the cross. 
August 27th: EPIDENDRUM LATERALE.—Mr. O’Brien showed for 
