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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A meeting of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent 

 Square, Westminster, on August gth, when several excellent groups were 

 staged, including one magnificent group of Disa grandiflora from Messrs. 

 Cripps and Son. The awards granted consisted of four medals and one 

 Botanical Certificate. 



Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Hopkins), sent a 

 pretty little group, consisting of Cattleya X Patrocinii, Westfield variety, a 

 richly-coloured variety of fine C. Eldorado crocata, Cypripedium X Wiertz- 

 ianum, and Bleu's variety of the same, having a larger, more closely 

 spotted flower, and C. X Hiero, Edenside var. (Lawrenceanum X Cham- 

 berlainianum), a very pretty hybrid, having a yellowish green dorsal sepal 

 lined with dark purple, greenish ciliate petals closely spotted with blackish 

 purple, and a rosy lip margined with yellow at the upper edge. 



F. W. Moore, Esq., Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, sent an 

 inflorescence of the remarkable Bulbophyllum Hamelinii, to which a 

 Botanical Certificate was given. The species is a native of Madagascar, 

 and was fully described at page 284 of our tenth volume, when it flowered 

 for the first time in Europe in the same collection. 



Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, staged a very fine group, which 

 gained a Silver Flora Medal, and was remarkable for the presence of a 

 noble specimen of Arachnanthe Lowii, bearing four fine racemes, the two 

 or three basal flowers on each raceme being, as usual, different from the 

 others in shape and colour, the cause of which, we believe, has not yet 

 been satisfactorily explained. Other interesting things were some fine 

 forms of Laelio-cattleya X callistoglossa and L.-c. X bletchleyensis, the 

 variety Non Plus Ultra of the latter having brilliant rose-purple sepals and 

 petals, and a rich claret-crimson lip ; three specimens of Angrsecum Eich- 

 lerianum, Cattleya X Patrocinii-aurea, having pretty rose-coloured sepals and 

 petals, and a yellowish centre to the lip ; Cypripedium X Williamsonianum 

 (X Leeanum X Rothschildianum), most resembling the latter in shape, 

 and having the dorsal sepal dotted with purple lines on a cream ground, 

 becoming green at the base, the petals yellowish spotted with purple, and 

 the lip brownish rose ; C. X Annie Measures, C. X Rothschildiano- 

 villosum, C. X Flambeau, C. X callo-Rothschildianum, C. X Harveyanum, 

 C. X A. de Lairesse, bearing three spikes and a dozen fine flowers, C. X 

 tonso-Rothschildianum, C. X Transvaal, &c. 



Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Heaton, Bradford, also received a Silver 

 Floral Medal for a fine group, including in the centre a fine specimen of 

 Oncidium incurvum, some good examples of Vanda ccerulea, one bearing 



