﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



The problem awaits solution. It is certainly not analogous with the case 

 of Grammatophyllum, in which two or three flowers at the base of the 

 inflorescence are abortive, being reduced to four segments, through the loss 

 of the lip, and the union of the pair of lateral sepals, which is accompanied 

 by an imperfect column and anther. In the case of the Arachnanthe we 

 may assume that the basal flowers have become specialised for some 

 particular purpose — but what ? Observation of the plant in its native 

 surroundings may one day furnish an answer. The point should be borne 

 in mind by those who have the necessary facilities. R. A. Rolfe. 



NOTES. 



Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 

 Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on September 6th and 20th, 

 when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o'clock noon. 



The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold a 

 meeting at the Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford, on Friday, September 9th, 

 and a second meeting at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on Thursday, 

 September 22nd. The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are 

 open to inspection from 1 to 3 p.m. 



An illustration of the group of Orchids exhibited at the recent Inter- 

 national Horticultural Exhibition at Dusseldorf, by M. Firmin Lambeaa, of 

 Brussels, and to which the jury awarded the first prize of 800 marks, is 

 given in the Revue de V Horticulture Beige for June. 



A group of Orchids exhibited at the meeting of the Nederlandsche 

 Orchidophilen Club, held at Haarlem, on May 28th and 29th, is also illus- 

 trated in the July number, together with a nobile specimen of Oncidium 

 sphacelatum exhibited at the same meeting by by M. J. D. Onderwater, and 

 a good plant of Cyrtopodium punctatum exhibited at the Dusseldorf 

 exhibition by M. Maurice Verdonck. 



The August number of the same work contains a figure of a group of 

 Dendrobiums in the collection of M. Van Vloten, of Zandvoord, near 

 Haarlem. 



A figure of a fine group of Orchids in the collection of J. Lawrence, Esq., 

 M.P., Oaklands, Henley, Surrey (gr. Mr. Bannerman), appears in a later 

 issue (1904, ii., p. 61). The plants are evidently very well grown. 



A beautiful group of Odontoglossums in the collection of Norman C 

 Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Chapman), is figured in a 

 .recent issue of the Gardening World (1904, p. 217, with suppl. plate). 



