We are indebted to the kindness of the Duc de Massa, Chateau de Franconville, 
par Luzarches, France, for the opportunity of figuring this grand plant; and Mr. 
Tallud, the gardener, is to be highly commended for the grand condition in which 
the whole collection is maintained. This plant was purchased by M. Le Duc from 
the collection of the late M. Luddeman, of Paris, and we understand is unique. 
Renanthera Rohaniana is an evergreen plant with distichous leaves, and in every 
respect its habit is similar to that of the Vanda, but the flowers differ from that 
genus in having a pointed and moveable lip, which is destitute of any spur. . The 
plant being a native of the warmest and moistest part of Borneo, it is natural to 
infer it thrives best under cultivation in the heat of the East Indian house; but 
it is quite surprising to see the low temperature these plants put up with 
during winter with impunity. We know a plant of R, Lowi which has been 
subjected to as low a temperature as 58° and 60° during the last three or four 
years, suffering only in not developing its flower spikes, but the general health of 
the plant is not diminished. The flowers of this plant are borne upon long pendent 
spikes, those at the base being four in number, the ground colour being rich orange- 
yellow, thickly spotted with purplish black. A considerable space is bare between 
these and the ordinary flowers, which are narrower, much undulated at the margins, 
and entirely of a different colour, having a white ground thickly blotched with 
large and irregular markings of blood-red. The plant likes a moist atmosphere 
when growing; and during the winter, if treated cool, great care must be exercised 
in giving it water, but under no circumstances must it be allowed to suffer. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE OrcHID CoMMITTEE (continued from under Plate 434). 
June 9th. First Class Certificate to Mr. F. Sander, St. Albans, for Miltonia 
verillaria “Mrs. H. Ballantine.” A fine flower; the sepals are white, and the petals 
light crimson, the lip being also of a rich crimson; it is a very bright and 
cheerful flower. 3 
First Class Certificate to Mr. F. Sander for Lelia Arnoldiana, a cross between 
L. purpurata and Cattleya labiata; a fine flower obtained from seed sown ten 
years ago, the sepals and petals soft purple, and the front lobe of the lip deep 
crimson, 
First Class Certificate to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, for Disa Veitchii, a 
cross between D. racemosa and D. grandiflora; flowers large, bright rose-pink, the 
plant being twenty-one months old. 
| First Class Certificate to Baron Schréder for Sobralia macrantha Kienastiana 
_ Which has pure white flowers, and is a very desirable plant. 
_JuNE 23rd. First Class Certificate to Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son for 
Dendrobium Phalenopsis Statterianum, which is a rich deep purple flower, being 
_ darker in the throat; very round and handsome in form. 
ee | : (Continued under Plate 436.) 
