94 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ Manctt, 1906, i 
towards the apex. Its separation from Orchis is due to some slight differ 
ences in the structure of the pollinia. The species is widely diffused in the 
Mediterranean region, from Cyprus to the Canary Islands, and is also found £ 
in North Africa. 
R. A. RoLre 
VARIATION OF LAELIA ANCEPS SANDERIANA. 
Ir is now possible to record another case of variation similar to that 
observed by Mr. Bound two years ago (0. R., xii. p. 78). A white formof 
Lelia anceps in the collection of Miss Sinnock, Downford, Hailsham, — 
Sussex, has produced a scape of four flowers, two of which have a slight 
purple patch on the front lobe of the lip, while in the other two the whole 
of the lobe is pure white, these latter corresponding fairly well to L. 
Stella. Miss Sinnock remarks that a similar plant had last year quite” 
white blooms, but this year each of the flowers has a purple blotch on the 
lip and they are also distinctly larger than before. 
CALANTHE x VEITCHII SPORT. 
Mr. W. Swan writes to the Gardener’s Chronicle (1906, i. p. 14) to say that 
“at a meeting of the Egham and District Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement 
Association, a plant of Calanthe x Veitchii was exhibited that in a very 
important particular had diverged from the normal habit of this plant. The 
specimen grew from just one pseudobulb, that had, early in spring, been 
put into a five inch pot. This had made two growths, which had 
developed into pseudobulbs of large size, each one carrying a flower spike 
of about three feet in length. The pecu 
while one spike bore flowers of the usual rosy pink colour, the other spike 
had flowers of a very pale flesh colour. The contrast between the two 
spikes was great, and the novelty was much admired by the large company 
present. The plant was exhibited by Mr. W. Wilkins, Park House 
Gardens, Englefield Green.” 
liarity of this, however, was that 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the R.H.S. will be held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, during March, on the 6th and zoth, when the 
Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
subjects chosen for the special competition on th 
Dendrobiums aureum and nobil 
and Lycaste hybrids. 
twelve o'clock noon. The 
ese dates are :—March 6th, 
e with their hybrids ; March 2oth, Lycast® 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
