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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



went off" (0. i*., viii., p. 199). There is also a supposed natural hybrid 

 between it and C. vulcanica, namely C. X miniata, L. Lind. (Lindenia 

 t. 562). It has been known for some time that the two species grew in the 

 same region. C. Noetzliana is an easily grown and most brilliant little 

 plant, and is now likely to be in great demand for hybridising. 



SOCIETIES. 



Royal Horticultural. 

 A meeting of this Society was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, 

 Westminster, on June 14th, when there was a fine display of Orchids, 

 better than usual at the meeting succeeding the Temple Show. Sir 

 Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), staged 

 a fine group of well-grown plants, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was 

 awarded. At the back were some good Sobralia macrantha, including two 

 well-flowered examples of the white variety Kienastiana, the remainder 

 being made up of a fine series of Cattleya Mossise varieties, three good 

 C. Mendelii, C. X resplendens, two good C. Warned, some good Lalia 

 purpurata, L. X cinnabrosa, L.-c. X elegans superba, L.-c. X Hippolyta, 

 Phalasnopsis amabilis, P. speciosa, P. Lueddemanniana, a fine specimen of 

 Ccelogyne pandurata bearing three spikes and an aggregate of thirty-one 

 flowers, Cypripedium bellatulum and its variety album, C. Godefroyae, C.X 

 W. H. Young, and others, Brassavola Digbyana, the fine Milionia vexillaria 

 G. D. Owen, and M. v. Empress Victoria Augusta. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), sent a 

 few rare Orchids, including a well-flowered plant of Dendrobium X formoso- 

 Lowii, having cream-white flowers with yellow filaments on the disc, the 

 handsome Odontoglossum crispum pardalinum, with rich claret-red 

 blotches, Cypripedium Stonei, and a very fine spike of C. S. platytaenium, 

 together with a very strong branched spike of Phalaenopsis amabilis. 

 Cultural Commendations were given to the two latter. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., Tring Park (gr. Mr. Dye), sent an 

 inflorescence of Epidendrum confusum, a near ally of E. fragrans, with 

 much larger flowers, and Restrepia leopardina rosea, the latter, which 

 had the lateral sepals densely spotted with rose on a whitish ground, 

 receiving a Botanical Certificate. 



De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent a 

 fine specimen of Odontoglossum crispum cultivated in a glass pot, which had 

 made a very large bulb and a new growth a foot high, as well as a spike of 

 thirteen fine flowers, since July last. He also sent the densely spotted O. 

 apterum Crawshayanum, and O. Uroskinneri rosefieldiense, a very richly 

 coloured variety. 



