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Orch. p. 61), and is allied to Bulbophyllum, but differs in having a long 
attenuated foot to the column, on which the lip and lateral sepals are 
inserted at some distance apart. The pollinia are also inserted on a stipes 
and gland, as in the Vandez. At the time Lindley described it as the only 
Orchid without petals, but this is a mistake, for the petals are present, but 
reduced to a few minute teeth situated on the foot of the column. It is a 
native of Nepal, Sikkim, and Khasia, and is well figured by King & 
Pantling (Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii. p. 152, t. 208). The only other 
species is M. Crabro, Rchb. f. (Tvans. Linn, Soc., xxx. p. 143), a native of 
Moulmein.—R.A.R. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Ha!l, Vincent Square, Westminster, during January, 
on the 11th and 25th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual 
hour, 12 o’clock noon. The following meeting is fixed for February 8th, 
when the Annual General Meeting will be held at 3 p.m. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold meetings 
at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on January 6th and 2oth. The 
Committee meets at noon and the exhibits are open from I to 4 p.m. 
The following meeting is fixed for February 3rd. 
Figures of Cypripedium tibeticum and margaritaceum in their native 
habitats, from photographs by Mr. G. Forest, are given in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for December 18th, as a supplementary illustration. The Jatter 
species is not yet in cultivation. 
CHONDRORHYNCHA FIMBRIATA.—A plant of this very rare and interesting 
Orchid has been sent to Kew for determination by Mr. J. Birchenall, 
Alderley Edge, Cheshire, who remarks that he collected it near Velez. The 
species was originally described under the name of Stenia fimbriata (Linden 
& Rchb. f., in Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 1313), but was afterwards transferred 
to Chondrorhyncha (Rchb. f., l.c., 1879, ii. 648). Reichenbach gave the 
locality as New Grenada, remarking that it had been collected there by 
Schlim, Wagenerand Blunt. It was introduced by Linden, the description 
was made, it is believed, through his collector, Wallace. A plant was sold 
in flower by Linden at Stevens’ Rooms, and was purchased by Mr. John 
Day, who madea drawing in October, 1868 (Orch. Draw., xiv. t- 59, 60). 
It is well figured in Saunders’ Refugium Botanicum (ii. t. 107) from plants 
collected by Blunt for Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. Mr. Day again flowered 
it in May and October, 1870, but it has almost been lost sight of during 
recent years.—R.A.R. 
