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dorsal sepal is very handsomely blotched, and the petals and lip marked 
with crimson-purple. At a sale of duplicates from the Westfield 
Collection held in April, 1907, a small healjhy piece of it fetched 120 
guineas, and a year lajer the remaining plant was sold for 125 guineas. 
Mr. Wellesley remarks jhat in May, 1906, a small plant of it sold at 
Frotheroe and Morris’ Rooms for the record price of £300. P. x Thalia 
was originally raised by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, from P. insigne 
Chantinii @ and P. X Baron Schréder g. Its history was given at 
page 107 of our thirteenth volume. 
CORYANTHES SPLENDENS. 
A HANDSOME Coryanthes has just flowered in the collection of, Ey 
Rogerson, Esq., of Didsbury, and a flower has been sent by Mr. Price, who 
states that the plant was brought from Brazil last May. It agrees with C. 
splendens, which was described by Rodrigues, in 1877 (Gen. et Sp. Orch. 
nov. 1. p. 103), aSa species growing on the branches of trees, sometimes 
intermixed with Aroids, in the province of Para. A drawing was made, a 
copy of which, through Prof. Cogniaux’s kindness, is now at Kew, and 
which looks like an exceptionally richly coloured variety of C. maculata, 
Hook., and as such it has since been considered (Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras., 
lil. pt. 5, p. 513, t. 97). It is most like the Venezuelan C. Albertiana, Karst., 
which is also now considered a variety of C. maculata. This species was 
originally described and figured in 1831 (Bot. Mag. t. 3102), from plants 
received from British Guiana, but it has since been found in Central 
America, and elsewhere. The flower sent is very closely spotted with 
reddish purple on the sepals and petals, while the lip bears numerous large 
blotches of the same colour. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HorvticuLtTurat. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on August 4th, the day after Bank Holiday, 
when the exhibits were not numerous and the visitors very few. Some fine 
Orchids, however, were staged, and the awards consisted of three medals, 
one First-class Certificate, one Award of Merit, one Botanical Certificate, 
and one Cultural Commendation. 
Rk. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), received 
a First-class Certificate for Sophrocattleya warnhamiensis var. J. M. Black 
(C. amethystoglossa Xx S. grandiflora), a very beautiful variety, bearing 4 
large deep crimson flower, shaded with claret, and a three-lobed lip, with 
the front lobe ruby red, the side lobes streaked with red, and the disc 
yellow. He also sent the chaste white Cattleya siperba alba, Odonto- 
