12 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1908. 
glossum x Vuylstekei,O. X percultum, O. X Wilckeanum, O. xX altum, 
and others. 
Dir. FL As Sick Amyand Park Road, Twickenham, received a Silver 
Banksian Medal for an interesting little group, containing Cypripedium 
insigne Sander, C. i. Harefield Hall var., and other good Cypripedes, &c. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, also received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a pretty little group, including the handsome Leelio-cattleya 
Dominiana, L.-c. Illione, Brassolelia Digbyano-purpurata, Cypripedium X 
vexillarium, and others. 
Messrs. Heath & Sons, Cheltenham, sent some good forms of Oncidium 
varicosum, Cattleya labiata, Cypripedium xX Daphne, some good C. X 
Leeanum, C. x Blanche Moore, and others. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, also sent a nice little group, contain- 
ing the distinct Cypripedium Charlesworthii albens, C. X Niobe, Sander’s 
ar., a finely coloured form, C. x Shakespeare (xX Euryale X Rothschildi- 
anum), C. X Rufus (insigne X Milo),C. x Maudie, C. x San-Actzus, and 
the handsome C. x beechense superbum. 
The report of the Scientific Committee on this date contains the 
following references to Orchids :— 
Cypripedium insigne Sander and C. callosum Sandere having coloured 
flowers. Over one hundred plants of this cross had flowered, and each of 
them had borne coloured flowers, although the parents were albinos. The 
cross had been effected both ways with the same result. The two albinos 
breed true from seed. The flower of the particular specimen exhibited was 
coloured much in the same way as the type forms of the species, and bore 
great resemblance to C. xX Leonie (C. insigne x callosum). He also 
showed a plant with a coloured flower, the result of crossing the albino 
forms, C. callosum Sanderz and C. bellatulum album ; about 25 plants of 
this cross had flowered, and all had borne coloured flowers. A third plant 
bore a great resemblance to C. insigne Sander, and had been raised by 
crossing that form with C. x Leeanum giganteum (= C., insigne xX 
Spicerianum) ; of the offspring of this cross some reverted to the insigne 
type, but one was much lighter, and was crossed again with C. insigne 
Sandere, giving C. X San-Acteus. This was again crossed with C. insigne 
Sanderz, and the plant under notice was the result. The continued crosses 
had almost brought back the original C. insigne Sander. This form had 
in its composition, said Mr. Chapman, 14/16 C. insigne segue. 1/16 
normal C. insigne, and 1/16 C. Spicerianum. 
ORCHIDS AND FuncGi1.—Mr. Gurney Wilson reierid to - Asey 
brought forward by Professor Noel Bernard concerning symbiosis between 
