150 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1907. 
thing, having a light green dorsal sepal lined with purple and bordered 
with white, and the petals and lip tinged’ with brownish rose. 
Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, sent the beautiful Cymbidium 
Parishii Sander. 
Messrs. Stanley and Co., Southgate, sent a small group, including some 
good Cattleya citrina, Odontoglossum Edwardii and O. crispum, Oncidium 
Marshallianum, and O. sarcodes, &c. 
The Report of the Scientific Committee meeting of this date includes 
the following :— 
Plants exhibited.—A species of Megaclinium, with the curiously flattened 
thachis, was shown by J. B. H. Goodden, Esq., F.R.H.S., of Sherborne, 
Dorset; another Orchid, under the name of the “beetle” Orchid of 
Australia, with flowers curiously simulating a beetle with long antenne, 
shown by Mrs. Whitlaw, of Amerden, Taplow, and an interesting bigeneric 
hybrid between Diacrium bicornutum and Epidendrum Ellisii, with flowers 
of a pinkish colour shown by J. Colman, Esq., of Gatton Park. The 
terrestrial Orchid, Satyrium coriifolium (Bot. Mag. t. 2172), was shown by 
Messrs. Ware. It has a long spike of yellow flowers, having the labellum 
at the upper part of the flower, since the ovary is not twisted as in most 
Orchids. A vote of thanks was unanimously proffered to the exhibitors. 
A third meeting was held on April 30th, when there was again a 
brilliant display, and the awards consisted of five medals, three First-class 
Certificates, four Awards of Merit, two Botanical Certificates, and one 
Cultural Commendation. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford (gr. Mr. White), staged 4 
magnificent group, to which a Silver-gilt Medal was deservedly awarded. 
The plants were well grown, and arranged so that the character of each 
individual plant was ,well shown. It contained the following :—An 
enormous specimen: of Cattleya Schroederze, very well flowered (Cultural 
Commendation), C. intermedia nivea, a beautiful example of the peloriate 
C. i. Aquinii with a 7-flowered spike, C. x Lawreglossa, C. X William 
Murray, the rare C. x guatemalensis, Lelio-cattleya Choletiana with a 
beautiful spike of nine flowers, L.-c. Adolphus, L.-c. highburiensis, L.-¢- 
Mercia, with a peculiar cream-coloured variety, L.-c. G. S. Ball, he 
Doris, L.-c. Templeana (L.-c. elegans X C. Lueddemanniana), Lelia X 
Mozart (Boothiana x purpurata), Epidendrum Ellisii, E. arachnoglossum™, 
E. glumaceum, a nice group of cut E. radicans and E. Schomburgkii, Brass0 
cattleya nivalis, Epilelia latochilum, a fine form of Sophronitis grandiflora, 
the fine Dendrobium x Dalhou-nobile and D. x formoso-Lowii, Masdevallia . 
x igneo-Estrade, a fine Phaius Wallichii, Coelogyne Lawrenceana, 
