68 ) THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MARCH, 1903-. 
THE R.H.S. JOURNAL. 
ANOTHER number of the Fournal of the Royal Horticultural Society has reached 
us, containing the reports of the various Committees, and of the Rose 
Conference held at Holland House, the lectures delivered at the Society’s. 
Meetings, with a series of valuable Abstracts, Notes on Recent Research, 
&c. Some of the lectures and reports are profusely illustrated, and. 
altogether the number is an excellent record of the invaluable work which 
is being done by the Society. The second paper on “ Mendel’s principles: 
applied to Orchid Hybrids,” by Captain C. C. Hurst, is dealt with on 
another page. Among the Abstracts we observe a reference to an article 
(from our pages) on Cattleya Roezlii, and the “ possibilities ”’ of its being a. 
natural hybrid, when clearly “ impossibilities” would have been the better: 
word. And we may note that there is still a great want of uniformity in the 
method of dealing with Orchid extracts. Allusion is made to the New 
Hall “now being built” in Vincent Square, and we hope that Orchidists 
will not be behind their confreres in other departments of Horticulture in 
supporting the project to provide a home for the Society, and a Hall for 
its fortnightly meetings, which we regard as a worthy means of celebrating: 
the Society’s Centenary. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
Pap UM X ERUBESCENS.—Another very pretty hybrid from 
Paphiopedilum Charlesworthii has appeared, a flower and leaf having been 
sent by Mrs. Ross, of Florence, and it shows its origin in a most 
unmistakable manner. A doubt is expressed as to the second parent, but 
the missing information is fortunately supplied by the hybrid itself, for the 
narrow shape and details of the flower, and the narrow wholly green leaf, 
are strongly impressed with the characters of P. hirsutissimum. The 
dorsal sepal is broadly ovate, 12 inches broad, and dull rose-purple in 
colour, somewhat darker on the disc, paler at the margin, and with a 
number of minute darker dots at the base. The petals measure 2} inches 
long, and spread nearly horizontally, while the characters of P. hirsutissi- 
mum are largely retained. The apical halves are rose purple in colour, and 
the remainder of a duller shade, with very numerous darker dots on the 
nerves, this portion also being very hairy and the upper margin undulate- 
The lip is of a dull rose-purple, with many minute darker dots, and/an 
approach to P, hirsutissimum in shape ; while the staminode is enodified in 
the same direction in shape, in the ivory white colour being faintly flushed 
with pink, and in the yellow tooth very dwarf and obtuse. 
