THE 



ORCHID WORLD. 



FEBRUARY, 1914. 



NOTES 



Orchidist Honoured. — Mr. Richard 

 Ashworth, J. P., of Newchurch, near Man- 

 chester, has been elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Moscow Orchid Society. 



New Committee.man. — Mr. Enc H. 

 Davidson, of Twyford, Berks, has recently 

 been elected a member of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's Orchid Committee. 



Royal Horticultural Society. — 

 During the present year the meetings of the 

 Society will remain open for an hour longer 

 than hitherto. The time of closing will 

 accordingly be as follows: — February to 

 October inclusive, 7 o'clock ; in November 

 and December, 6 o'clock. 



Albinism. — A rather unexpected result has 

 occurred with Messrs. Flory and Black, who 

 have recently flowered several seedlings of 

 Cypripedium insigne Sanderae, obtained by 

 self-fertilising a selected plant. The majoritv 

 have proved to be true insigne Sandera?, but 

 one has appeared of a much lighter shade of 

 yellow, and without any of the small spots 

 always to be seen on the central area of the 

 flower. In this respect it resembles insigne 

 -Sanderianum, but differs from it by having a 

 much broader white area on the apex of the 

 dorsal sepal. It will be distinguished \)y the 

 varietal name Purity. 



Orchids of Madagascar. — Under the 

 title Orchidnceae Perrierianae niadagdscar- 

 and forming an extract of the " Annales 



du Musec colonial de Marseille," Series III., 

 Vol. I., 1913, Dr. R. Schlechter has published 

 some interesting notes on a collection of 

 Orchids made by M. H. Perrier de la Bathie, 

 the indefatigable explorer of Madagascar. 

 Dr. Schlechter remarks that the collection of 

 Orchids which has been confided to him for 

 determination contains about fifty species 

 still unknown, from which it is evident 

 that we have still to expect very important 

 contributions to the study of the flora of 

 Madagascar. 



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Orchids of Nigeria. — An interesting 

 contribution to the flora of the Oban District 

 of South Nigeria has been published by the 

 Trustees of the British Museum. In reality it 

 is an account of the plants collected in that 

 country by Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot, 

 in the years 1909-1912. The collection of 

 Orchids contains 70 species, of which 20 are 

 new, and fully described by Dr. Rendle, who 

 remarks: — "Their affinity is almost exclu- 

 sively West Tropical African, and, as might 

 be expected, a large proportion occur also in 

 the Cameroons, 17 species being hitherto 

 known only from that area. Among these is 

 the genus Auxopus, recently described by Dr. 

 Schlechter from a single locality. Nineteen 

 species have a wider distribution through the 

 region bordering on the Gulf of Guinea from 

 Sierra Leone to Gaboon, including Prince's 

 Lsland and the Island of .St. Thomas ; 

 Habenaria barrina has hitherto been known 

 only from St. Thomas. A smaller number, 

 seven, are more generally West Tropical 

 African, extending southwards to the French 



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