210 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JULY, 1909. 
the courtesy of the proprietors of the Gardeners’ Chronicle. The species 
has tall, striate, copiously leafy stems, from 1} to three feet long, some- 
what thickened below the middle and narrowed upwards. The leaves are 
oblong, slightly bilobed at the apex, and under two inches long. The 
short racemes are borne on the upper part of the stems, and produce three 
or four large and beautiful flowers, whose general aspect can be seen in the 
figure. The collector describes the flowers as large and very effective, the 
sepals and petals as pure white and of good substance, and the lip white 
lined with green, the side lobes lined with blackish purple, and the throat 
and inside of the spur blackish violet. Traces of these colours are retained 
in the dried flowers. The plant is said to be free-growing and flowering, 
and is certainly very beautiful. The petals are large and well displayed. 
In the dried flowers they are 14 inches long by an inch broad, while the 
expanded lip measures over an inch across. The spur tapers to a fine 
point, and measures over 1+ inches from its junction with the pedicel. The 
second photograph sent shows the plant much reduced, including a stem 
bearing about forty leaves. The plant bears a considerable general 
resemblance to D. Dearei, Rchb. f., and D. parthenium, Rchb. f., the latter 
a handsome Bornean species which has been lost sight of. It is, however, 
quite distinct from either. It will probably require similar treatment to 
D. Dearei. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaAL HORTICULTURAL. 
THE first meeting after the Temple Show was held at the Royal Horticultural 
Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on June 8th, when there was a fine 
display of Orchids, though the groups were rather scattered. The awards 
consisted of eight medals, one First-class Certificate, three Awards of 
Merit, two Botanical Certificates, and one Cultural Commendation. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), staged: a fine 
group of Orchids, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained 
a plant of the finely-blotched Odontoglossum crispum President Fallieres 
with a spike of eighteen flowers and buds, O. crispum xanthotes, two good 
O. apterum, and others, Masdevallia coccinea and a lot of good M. ignea, 
Anguloa Clowesii, Dendrobium Williamsoni and some good D. thyrsiflorum, 
Cymbidium Huttoni, the pretty little Miltonia Phalenopsis, a good 
Odontioda heatonensis, Cattleya x Dusseldorfii Undine, and C. Mossize 
Princess Juliana, a pretty white form, with some rosy veining on the lip, the 
handsome Brassocatlelia Veitchii, Scaphosepalum gibberosum and octhodes, 
with other good things. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.1.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received a First-class Certificate for Lzliocattleya Mikado, a 
