Ic THE ORCHID REVIEW. [January, 1906. 
light green, margined in the upper halves with violet purple, and the 
blotches are blackish brown. The ground colour of the petals is rather 
lighter, and the violet-purple margin is broader and extends round to the 
base. The front lobe of the lip is violet-purple, and the disc and crest 
yellow, with some blackish spots chiefly on the lower half. The crest 
,consists of about five acute central teeth with a few smaller lateral 
ones, thus retaining some of the character of O. Harryanum. The 
column is most like O. Rossii, and the wings broad and nearly entire. The 
lip and margin of the sepals and petals are much darker than shown in the 
photograph, owing to the well-known actinic property of this colour. It is 
a very distinct and striking hybrid, and quite unique in colour and 
markings, and Messrs. Charlesworth must be congratulated on raising 
such an acquisition. It is dedicated to Mr. Smith, Messrs. Charlesworth’s 
foreman. 
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SOCIETIES. 
Roya HorticuLtTurar. 
Orcuins were well represented at a meeting held at the Royal Horticul- 
tural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on December 5th, when the 
awards consisted of one Gold and three other Medals, three First-class 
Certificates, two Cultural Commendations, and one Award of Merit. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), staged a 
remarkably fine group, to which a Gold Medal was awarded. It contained 
a fine lot of Odontogl , the more not hy being the handsome O. 
crispum Princess Christian, a handsomely blotched form with white ground 
which is suspected may be a form of O. x Denisone, O. X Ruckerianum 
insigne, which has been in the collection for about twenty years, the violet 
purple O. ioplocon, an ally of O. Edwardii, and very rarely seen, O- 
bictoniense album, Lycaste x Balliz, Oncidium ornithorhynchum album, 
bearing several graceful panicles of flowers, Lezlio-cattleya x bletchleyensis 
Ruby King, a large and very richly coloured form, and various others of the 
Cattleya group, as well as a fine series of Cypripedes, including some 
fine specimens. Of these the more remarkable were a fine C. X 
Leeanum with forty flowers, C. x Charles Canham with about two dozen, 
C. X Pitcherianum with over twenty, and several others were not far 
behind, including C. insigne Sanderz, C. i. Harefield Hall var.-and @. 'X 
Leeanum giganteum. The handsome C, X Baron Schroder; C. x - Rolfei, 
and C. X Gravesiz were also noteworthy. 
The Right Hon. the Earl of Tankerville, Chillingham Castle, 
Northumberland (gr. Mr. Hunter), exhibited Vanda Sanderiana Chilling- 
ham var., a fine tichly-coloured form, which gained both a First-class 
