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the type in having the flowers suffused with purple and in the rather 
smaller size. The plant was introduced from Brazil, and is said to flower 
profusely. 
A flower of a pretty little hybrid Dendrobium, obtained from D. x 
Rubens and D. Aurora, is sent from the collection of the Right Hon. J. 
Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Birmingham, by Mr. Mackay. The sepals 
and petals are tipped with rosy purple, and the disc of the lip is dark 
maroon. It bears a general resemblance to D. xX melanodiscus, and, like 
D. X Magda, is made up of the same three species, D. nobile, aureum, and 
Findlayanum, though in slightly different proportions. 
A flower of Paphiopedilum Appletonianum is sent from the collection of 
Walter Norgrove, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, together with one of the natural 
hybrid P. X siamense, which flowered out of the same imported clump. Mr. 
Norgrove remarks : ‘‘ I bought an unflowered imported plant, and one of the 
growths produced the larger flower; the other parts of the plant produced 
flowers like the small one.” The other parent is P. callosum, and the history 
of the hybrid, with figures of the plant and its parents, have already been 
given (O.R., xi. pp. 44-46, fig. 11). 
A flower of Phragmopedilum caudatum x Sedeniiis sent by His Honour 
Judge Philbrick, Bodorgan House, Bournemouth. It has rather more 
attenuated petals than P. Schroederz, but should be a form of it, and is 
very similar in its rich red-purple colour. The scape bears two flowers. A 
flower of Paphiopedilum villosum var. annamense is also sent, which differs 
markedly from the typical form in having a broad white margin to the 
dorsal sepal. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held in the 
-Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during April, 
on the 5th and rgth, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual 
hour, 12 o’clock noon. The following meeting is fixed for May 3rd. 
It is announced that the Royal Agricultural Society have withdrawn 
their suggestion that a Show should be held under the auspices and 
organisation of the Royal Horticultural Society in connection with the 
visit of the former to Liverpool in June next, and the announcements in the 
Book of Arrangements are in consequence cancelled. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on April 7th and 21st. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
Ito4p.m. The following meeting is fixed for May 5th. 
