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addition there were three properly developed stamens adnate to the column. 
Mr. Wilson also showed a dimerous specimen of Cypripedium insigne, 
which was not only a very perfect specimen of this rather common aber- 
ration, but was interesting on account of the fact that this is the second 
successive year in which the abberation has occurred in this plant. 
December 6th, 1908 :— 
STAMENS OF ORCHIDS VARIABLE IN NUMBER.—Mr. W. Fawcett showed 
drawings of the Orchid, Epidendrum Ottonis: made from plants occurring 
wild in Jamaica. The flowers always there have three stamens, while in 
Trinidad five stamens are developed in the same species, and in Venezuela 
the structure (according to Reichenbach) is normal. 
INTERESTING ORcCHIDS.—Mr. F. W. Moore, of Glasnevin, sent two very 
interesting Orchids, Arachnanthe Lowii and Angreecum caudatum. In the 
former the first three or four flowers of the very long inflorescence are some- 
what smaller and of a quite different colour from those of the rest, from 
which they are separated by a considerable length of stem. No satis- 
factory suggestion as to the cause of this difference was given. The flowers 
of Angreecum caudatum are remarkable for the extraordinary length of 
their spurs—quite 12 in. in one of the flowers, and nearly as much in the 
others on the same inflorescence. 
January rath, 1909 :— 
MALFORMED ORCHID.—From Mr. Lynch, V.M.H., of Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, came a malformed flower of Cypripedium Dominianum 
with a normal flower for comparison. The flower had the sepals fused and 
a double lip; it was taken by Mr. Saunders for further examination. 
NOMENCLATURE OF MULTIGENERIC OrcHID Hyprips.—The Chairman 
announced that the sub-Committee appointed to consider this question had 
arrived at the decision that the best solution of the question lay in coining 
names for each of the combinations of genera made, consisting of a com- 
memorative name and the termination ‘‘ara.”” The full text of their finding 
will be laid before the Committee at an early date. 
DENDROBIUM GOLDSCHMIDTII, Kranzl.—This is a pretty new species, a 
native of the island of Formosa, of which an inflorescence, leaf and 
photograph have been sent from the collection of Dr. Hans Goldschmidt, 
Essen Ruhr, Germany. The flowers are borne in short axillary racemes, 
of about a dozen each, and are about half an inch long, and deep rose-purple 
in colour. The plant grows to over a foot high, and is believed to be the 
only one yet incultivation. The technical description has not yet appearéd, 
