THE ORG loth Wy: 
VoL. XIV.] JANUARY, 1906. {No. 157. 
EVENTS OF 1905. 
Ir is customary at this season to glance at the principal events of the past 
year, and in matters orchidological the one event that stands out above all 
others is the re-discovery and re-introduction of what has been termed the 
lost Orchid, Paphiopedil or Cypriped Fairri The event 
came asa surprise. At the beginning of the year we were speaking of the 
plant as quite inaccessible, and even unknown to many Orchidists in a 
living state, but now it has flowered in numerous collections, and has 
become quite a familiar object, having been exhibited on several occasions. 
EXHIBITIONS. 
The fortnightly meetings of the Royal Horticultural and Manchester 
Orchid Societies have been quite up to the average in point of interest, 
while the Temple Show was again a great success. The great summer 
show was held at the Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, instead of at 
Holland House, and brought together a remarkable display of Orchids. 
There was also a great Horticultural Exhibition at Bruges at the beginning 
of August, at which Orchids were very | p t and a 
similar remark applies to the monthly meetings of the Royal Linnéene 
Society of Brussels, which have been recently instituted. And it may be 
added that scarcely a meeting is held without the “appearance of some 
novelty, in most cases, however, from the hand of the hybridist. 
NOVELTIES. 
Novelties among introduced species have witnessed a slight increase 
during 1905. First and foremost may be mentioned the handsome 
Oncidium corynephorum, Lindl., a Peruvian species which has at last 
flowered in cultivation, in the collection of E. Ashworth, Esq. It was 
Lissochilus Mahoni and L. 
figured as the frontispiece to our last volume. 
Ugandz are two handsome species from Uganda, which have flowered at 
Kew, and have been figured in the Botanical Magazine. Arachnanthe 
annamensis is a handsome species, introduced from Annam by Messrs. 
Sander and Sons, and flowered at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. 
Vanda Watsoni, Cymbidium erythrostylum, and Eria globifera have a 
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