are found growing wild, and as these places are said to be very hot, therefore, 
while the growth is forming, we like to place them where they can have the 
greatest amount of heat. After growth is completed they like a decided rest; this 
can be the more easily given them by reducing the temperature, and withholding 
water. The flowers of all the species of Chysis are showy, with the exception of 
one C. aurea, the species upon which Lindley founded the genus, which arises 
from the fact that the blooms are self-fertilising, and they consequently never display 
their beauties. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE ORCHID ComMITTEE (concluded from under Plate 445). 
Cultural Commendation to C. J. Lucas, Esq., Horsham, for Angrecum Eillisii, 
bearing a spike with twenty one flowers. 
Special Vote of Thanks to Mr. Owen Thomas, gardener to His Grace the 
Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, for a group of Disa grandiflora. 
Aveust 25th. Botanical Certificate to Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth and Co., 
for Zygopetalum (Batemania) grandiflorum, the sepals and petals being green, streaked 
with a deep rich brown, and a white lip. 
Cultural Commendation to Mr. J. Douglas, gardener to Mrs. Whitbourne, 
Ilford, for Cypripedium Lowianum, a spike bearing six flowers. 
Award of Merit to T.  Statter, Ksq., Rawstenstall, for Lelia elegans 
blenheimensis. To Mr. F. Sander, for Cattleya Behrensiana, a cross between Lelia 
elegans and Cattleya Loddigesii; the flowers large, with the sepals and petals white, 
tinged with flesh colour, lip broad and flat, of a rich deep rosy crimson. To 
Messrs. Seeger and Tropp, Dulwich, for the pure white Sobralia lewcoxantha. 
SEPTEMBER 8th. First Class Certificate to Baron Schréder, The Dell, for 
Miltonia Bluntii Lubbersiana, a superb variety, bearing two racemes of large flowers ; 
sepals and petals white, suffused with rosy lilac, lip large and flat, light purple in 
ront, passing into white at the base, having a streak of purple on each side of 
the crest. 
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wltwral Commendation to C. J. Lucas, Esq., for Angrecum articulatum. 
~ Bolscal Certificate to Messrs. Sander and Co. . St. Albans, for Cattleya 
ey - —- Deanceana, with flowers smaller than those of the species; sepals and 
7 n, the three-lobed lip having the lateral lobes white, the middle lobe being 
‘Tose — Telok: much reduced. To Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., for Mormodes 
: -buccinator aurea, with rich yellow flowers, and for Catasetum fimbriatum. To W. 
ee — as Denmark Hill, for Catasetum jimbriatum, male and female flowers. 
SEPTEMBER 22nd. he : has —- to Baron —— for Cypripedium 
as "the baat ae parent. To ‘Thomas Statter, Esq., 
ntermed aa. alba, a pure white form, which, if we are not 
