This beautiful novelty is now about ten years old, and has somewhat short 
pseudobulbs, which carry a single leaf; in this matter of shortness of pseudobulbs 
it partakes of the habit of its parent, the Brassavola, but its flowers are of good 
size. The leaves are between eight and nine inches long, of a rich green colour, and 
quite destitute of the glaucous hue of the Brassavola. The flowers as yet are few in 
number upon the scape, and measure about six inches across, but as the plant gains in 
strength the flowers will in all probability increase in size; the colour is a 
delicate soft rosy lilac, streaked and dotted with crimson-lake. Nothing can be 
said by us respecting the management of this variety, but we are told by Mr. 
Ballantine that he has not found it to differ from the warm Cattleyas in its 
requirements. It should be well drained, and potted in good brown _peat-fibre, 
adding a small portion of chopped sphagnum moss; the plant, too, must be kept 
free from all insect pests, and all will be well. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE OrcHID CoMMITTEE oF THE RoyaL HortIcuLTURAL Society, 
FOR THE FourtTH QUARTER IN THE YEAR 1891]. 
October 6th. A First Class Certificate to Baron Schroeder, for Lelia 
Perrinii alba, flowers large, measuring seven inches across, and the sepals and 
petals very broad; the whole of the flower of the purest white, saving a_ tinge 
of primrose yellow at the base of the front lobe of the lip. This, we think, had 
been previously named by Reichenbach, Lelia Perrinii Parthenia. 
An Award of Mert was made to G. O. Sloper, Esq., Westrop House, 
Highworth, Wilts., for Cattleya aurea marmorata. The flowers were large, the 
sepals and petals being creamy white, sparingly spotted and marbled with rose; lip 
dark purplish crimson on the front lobe, side lobe and the throat rich yellow. 
A Cultural Commendation was awarded to F. A. Bevan, Esq., for Cypripedium 
Sanderianum, bearing two spikes, each with three flowers, with its twisted petals some 
fifteen inches long. The plant had been well grown by the gardener, Mr. Phillips, 
but we have seen the petals longer, measuring about nineteen inches in length. 
Octoper 27th. An Award of Merit to Messrs. B. §. Williams and Son, for 
Cypripedium Pitcherianum ( Williams’ variety), which is a very rich and _ highly- 
coloured form of the original; and the same award was given to Mr. ©. Ingram, 
Eistead House, Godalming, for Cypripedium radiosum, which is a cross between C. 
Lawrenceanum and C. Spicerianum, raised by Mr. Seden, and flowered for the 
first time about seven years back. 
A Botanical Certificate was awarded to Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St Albans, for 
Dendrobium O’Brienianum, which has long pendent sprays of greenish flowers, 
which are singular, but not showy. 
(Continued under Plate 450.) 
