374 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DECEMBER, I9QIo. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE last show of the year of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held 
at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on Decem- 
ber 6th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
o'clock noon. There will be no Show on December 20th, but the 
Committees will sit upstairs, and plants, &c., for certificate will be received, 
but nothing else. The first meeting of the New Year is fixed for 
January 3rd. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on December rst and 15th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from to 4 p.m. The next meeting is fixed for January 5th, rg11. 
R. H. S. Sclentiric COMMITTEE.—The following references to Orchid 
exhibits at meetings of the Scientific Committee are taken from the Official 
Report (continued from page 286) :— 
August roth, 1910 :—Spotting of Calanthe foliage——Plants of Calanthe 
vars. were shown badly attacked by a spot disease. So far as has yet been 
definitely ascertained, the spotting is not caused by a fungus or other 
organism, and appears not to be infectious. It seems rather to be due to 
some cultural defect, perhaps to spraying with cold water. 
August goth, 1910:—Oncidioda X Charlesworthit.—The first cross of 
an Oncidium with Cochlioda (O. incurvum x C. Neetzliana) was shown 
by Messrs. Charlesworth, of Haywards Heath. The specimen submitted 
was one of several of the same raising, all of which showed the same 
characteristics and colouring. A Certificate of ge aden to Messrs. 
Charlesworth was recommended. 
October 8th, 1910 :—Catasetum sp.—Mr. G. Rae Fraser, of Letchmore 
Heath, sent a pistillate flower of a species of Catasetum from Bermuda, 
which Mr. Rolfe considered to be probably C. macrocarpum, but as the 
pistillate flowers of the different species of Catasetum are so similar to one 
another, there is a little doubt about the name, which can only be settled 
when the male flowers appear. The whole inflorescence has, by the kind- 
ness of Mr. Fraser, been deposited in the Kew Herbarium. 
November 3rd, 1910 :—Malformed Orchids.—Mr. E. A. Bowles showed 
two malformed Orchids, a Dendrobium and a Cattleya, both showing 
doubling of some of their parts. They were referred to Mr. Lionel 
Crawshay for examination and report. 
November 19th, rg10 :—Triple flower of Dendrobium fila My. LL. 
Crawshay made the following report on the flower referred to him from the 
last meeting: :—This flower has developed near the apex of an inflorescence 
