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ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS, 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will te held during July. 
The first is the great Summer Show to be held at Holland House, 
Kensington, on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 5th and 6th, when the 
Orchid Committee will meet at 10.30 a.m., on the first day. The second 
meeting will be held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on July 19th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the 
usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The succeeding meeting is fixed for August 
2nd, the day after Bank Holiday. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on July 21st. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
I to 4 o’clock, p.m. 
An illustration of the Odonteglossum house at Craghead, Bothwell, 
N.B., is given in a recent issuse of The Garden (p. 264). 
We note with pleasure that the name of Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford is 
included in the King’s Birthday Honours list, he having been promoted to 
the rank of Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. 
ORCHiS MONOPHYLLA. 
THIS very distinct and interesting Orchis is flowering with Messrs. Sander 
& Sons, at St. Albans, plants having been received through their collector 
Micholitz from the Southern Shan States. Plants are also flowering at 
Kew. It grows from six inches to a foot high, and produces a single basal 
leaf, two to three inches broad, and a spike of numerous lilac-coloured 
flowers, with purple spots on the lip. The leaf is broadly ovate, subacute, 
and closely blotched with blackish purple spots on a light greyish green 
ground. They are convolute round the stem when young, but ultimately 
spread close to the ground, the dark spotting giving them a striking appear- 
ance. The species appeared in cultivation in 1898, when its history was 
given (O. R., vi. p. 144). Previously it had been known as Habenaria 
monophylla, but plants which had been introduced by Messrs. James Veitch 
& Sons then flowered at Kew, and showed that the glands of the pollinia 
were enclosed in a pouch, as in Orchis. Soon afterwards it was figured in 
the Botanical Magazine (t. 7601). It was originally discovered by General 
Collett in 1888, in the Shan Hills, at 4,000 feet elevation. It also occurs 
in Yunnan, having been collected at Mengtse, growing on grassy uplands 
and among rocks at 6,000 to 7,000 feet elevation, both by Dr. A. Henry and 
by W. Hancock. When growing in quantity under such conditions it must 
