THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vot. IV.] MAY, 1806. [No. 41. 
NOTES. 
THE next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on May 5th, when the Orchid 
Committee will meet at the usual hour of 12 o'clock, noon. 
The Great Annual Flower Show of the Society will be held in the Inner 
Temple Gardens, Thames Embankment, on May 1gth, 20th, and 2rtst, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet an hour earlier than usual, namely, 
at 11 o’clock a.m. As usual on this occasion, a number of Silver Cups and 
Medals will be awarded according to merit. 
A-fine richly-coloured flower of Cypripedium x Ledouxiz (described at 
page 117 of our first volume) has been sent from the collection of R. le Doux, 
Esq., West Derby, Liverpool, and much resembles a fine form of C. x 
Creon. Mr. Archer thinks that the record of C. callosum being one parent 
is correct, as some of the seedlings show distinct warts on the petals, and 
the foliage is about intermediate between that species and C. x Harrisianum. 
Referring to Cypripedi with twin-flowered scapes (pp. 1, 66), Mr. 
Archer also remarks that it is common in the collection just named, especially 
in C. callosum, C. barbatum, C. x Ashburtonz, C. x Louise, C. x 
Daviesi and ti C. xX Harrisi 
A very curious flower of Cattleya Mendelii has been sent from the 
collection of F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, which has 
only two sepals, two alternating petals, and a straight column with two 
anthers, which again alternate with the petals, and thus stand opposite the 
sepals. The colour is light blush. Every bulb on the plant is said to be 
crippled. We suspect that it may be out of the importations alluded to at 
page 236 of our last volume. 
