HE ORCHID REVIEW, 
UL. i] AUGUST, 1893. [No. 8. 
NOTES. 
THE duties of the Orchid Committee at the meeting of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society held at Chiswick on August 8th were lighter than usual, 
nevertheless several very interesting things were exhibited; notably, Cy- 
pripedium x Massaianum, the first hybrid from C. Rothschildianum, which 
received an Award of Merit; C. Stonei Cannaertianum, which received a 
similar award; and a three-flowered spike of Cattleya Rex. 
The last named is evidently a summer-flowering species of great beauty. 
~ It was stated that the spike shown was one of two borne by the same plant, 
which, although showing improvement each year, has never made a root in 
this country. This surely is an anomalous character. A single flower has 
also expanded on a plant in the Kew collection. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held during 
August, on the 8th and 2gth respectively, when the Orchid Committee will 
meet on each occasion. The former meeting will be held at the Drill Hall, 
Westminster, at 12, noon, and the latter at the Royal Agricultural Hall, 
Islington, an hour earlier. 
A plant of the remarkable and beautiful Coryanthes leucocorys has 
recently produced a flower in the collection of F, Wigan, Esgq., Clare Lawn, 
East Sheen, under the care of Mr. W. H. Young. The flower is very large, 
and the ivory-white helmet forms a charming contrast with the rose- 
coloured bucket-like lip. As regards shape, no more remarkable flower 
€xists in the whole family. 
A portrait of M. Alfred Van Imschoot, the well-known Belgian Orchidist, 
whose collection contains so many botanical rarities in addition to showy 
things, appears in the Fournal des Orchidées for July 15th, p. 142. 
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