PROCEEDINGS. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal : To Messrs. Veitch and Son, 

 of Exeter, for the magnificent new Vancla suavis sent from 

 Java by Mr. Lobb, having a long spike of large flowers, 

 whose white petals are beautifully spotted all over with 

 brown, the lip being violet. Of the general appearance of 

 the individual flowers of this fine species some idea may be 

 gathered from the accompanying woodcut. Messrs. Veitch 

 stated that in the Orchid house it is highly fragrant. 



Kniglitian Medals : To Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Eucker, 

 Esq., F.H.S., for a collection of Orchids, more especially 

 for plants of Phalsenopsis amabilis, the Duke of Devon- 

 shire's Galeandra (G. Devoniana), and the ivory-blossomed 

 Cymbidium (C. eburneum). To Messrs. Loddiges, of 

 Hackney, for Orchids, especially for Bletia campanulata, 

 Epidendrum Stamfordianum, Cymbidium eburneum, and 

 Dendrobium densiflorum ; the latter with eight large spikes 

 of yellow flowers. 



Banhsian Medals : To Messrs. Veitch and Son, for a plant of 

 ^schynanthus speciosus, the most brilliant of the genus, 

 bearing six terminal clusters, each consisting of some eighteen 

 or twenty long orange-scarlet flowers. " This," wrote 

 Messrs. Veitch, " we consider the finest of all the ^schy- 

 nanths. The habit and foliage are good ; the erect mode 

 of flowering, and tlie gaudy flowers combined with the 

 abundance of bloom, render it a very ornamental and de- 



