ie ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL. IV.] JANUARY, 1896. [No. 37. 
NOTES. 
THE first meeting of the year of the Royal Horticultural Society will be 
held at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on January 14th, when 
the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of twelve o’clock, noon. 
The next meeting is on February 11th. 
We have received a very pretty hybrid from the collection of Mrs. F. L. 
Ames, Boston, Mass., a seedling raised by Mr. W. Robinson between C. 
Boxallii and one of the montanum forms of C. insigne. A_ hybrid 
between these two species was mentioned at p. 74 of our last volume, 
under the name of C. X Madame de Curte, but it has also received at least 
five other distinct names, and we are uncertain which is the original one. 
The present one resembles C. Boxallii more than the other parent. 
Another flower of Cattleya labiata pallida, described at page 7 of our 
last volume, comes from the collection of J. W. Arkle, Esq., West Derby, 
Liverpool. Curiously enough, this season there is a broad crimson streak 
on the centre of the disc, and two or three small streaks on either side. 
Last year these were absent. 
A flower of a hybrid Cypripedium comes from H. J. Ross, Esq., of 
Florence, which is believed to have been raised from C. xX Dauthieri 
Rossianum ? and C. prestans 3, though curiously enough it is almost an 
exact reproduction of the former, both in shape and colour. The chief 
difference is that the dorsal sepal is rather narrower and with rather more 
green. 
Ach} iz with double-fi d 
Mr. Ross alludes to the Cypripedium X 
spike mentioned at page 375, and states that his plants are all double- 
flowering, except when quite recently divided. The peculiarity probably 
arises from excess of vigour, and affords evidence of good culture. Others 
