60 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT ‘THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
By JOHN WEATHERS. 
NoTWITHSTANDING a wretchedly wet and snowy day, there was a good 
display of Orchids at the last Floral Meeting of the Society, held on ee 
rth, in the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster. 
A magnificent specimen of Cycnoches pentadactylon, with about 250 
flowers, borne on ten drooping racemes, was exhibited by W. W. Mann, 
Esq., of Ravenswood, Bexley (gr. Mr. J. Simmon), and received a First 
class Certificate, as a mark of the high esteem in which the Orchid Com 
mittee regarded it.. It may be mentioned that one pseudobulb. bore five | 
spikes, another three, and another two. The sepals and petals are semt 
transparent, with blotches of deep purple brown, the column long, slender, 
and arching, like a swan’s neck, and the small lip reduced .to five narrow 
lobes. . 
C. Ingram, Esq., Elstead, Godalming (gr. Mr. T. W. Bond), exhibitet 
a variety of Cypripedium Lindleyanum, called superbum, with pale rost 
flowers. 
Reginald Young, Esq., Linnet Seal Liverpool, sent some deepal colouré 
flowers of Lelia anceps plumosa, hoticeable for the featheriness of the colout 
in the front of the lip. 
From the Botancial Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Mr. F. W. Moore, the 
curator, sent two spikes of the remarkable Bulbophyllum comosum, 4 nati . 
of Eastern Burma, which received a Botanical Certificate. The oe od | 
nearly white, and fringed with short hairs. ) 
Messrs. W. L. Lewis and Co., Chase Side, Southgate, exhibited Cynorcis j 
grandiflora, a Madagascar Orchid new to cultivation, which obtained * 
Botanical Certificate. The upper sepal and petals are pale green blotete! | 
with red ; the lip is divided into four lobes, and is of a soft purple-pink, ™ 
from the base descends a spur about two inches long. Spikes of the orange 
red Disa incarata, which received a Botanical Certificate in March, 1892, We 
also exhibited by this firm. ‘ 
‘Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., ane staged a small group, te 
dominating feature being several anes in bloom of the pretty Sacco’ 
bellinum, which received a First-class Certificate in 1885. 1 
Among the group of plants exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander and scl 
Albans, were the dusky flowered Pleurothallis ornatus, with dark P™ af 
spots on the surface, and oscillating white hairs on the margins of ay 
segments. A large flowered form of the brown and yellow Bulbophyl# 4 
(Sarcopoditim) Godseffianum (certificated in 18go) ; the orange-fo 
