epiphytal kinds if the “heart” only is in the work. The present plant was 
grown and flowered in the garden of A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Carshalton, 
where so many of these gems of the Orchid world may be seen under the 
fostering care of Mr. Cummins. 
Disa tripetaloides, according to the statement of its introducer, is a very free- 
growing plant and a profuse bloomer. It requires the same treatment as does 
D. grandiflora and D. racemosa, to which section of the genus this plant belongs. 
Many of our correspondents affirm to its withstanding several degrees of frost with 
impunity, but we are under the impression that it is not well to expose any 
plant to the very lowest temperature it will bear and live; we therefore prefer 
the temperate house or cool frame, for we cannot but think that the effect of 
frost upon this plant, if not sufficient to destroy life, would most assuredly rob it of 
its fresh, healthy appearance and pristine beauty. The flowers are creamy white or 
flushed with a tinge of flesh colour, prettily dotted with crimson, and they remain 
a very long time in full beauty. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE OrcHIpD CommirrEE (continued from under Plate 461). 
To Sir Wm. Marriott, an Award of Merit for Lelio-Cattleya Marriottiana, a 
cross between L. flava and C. Skinneri, having upright spikes of flowers, which upon 
first opening have a tinge of brown, but when fully developed are yellow suffused 
with pink. 
To Messrs. Linden, of Brussels, an Award of Merit for Odontoglossum 
Pescatorei Lindenie, a handsome spotted form. 
To Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, an Award of Merit for Dendrobium 
Eurycles, a cross between D. lituiflorum and D. Wardianum, which does not give 
such a magnificent result as we expected. 
To Messrs. Heath and Son, Cheltenham, an Avzard of Merit for Cypripedium 
Swinburne. 
To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., a Botanical Certificate for Masdevallia 
Wendlandiana, a pretty little small-flowered species from Colombia, being white, 
and passing into cream at the tips. 
To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., a Botanical Certificate for Bulbophyllum 
Sellemeanum, a species having bright yellow flowers. 
To C. J. Lucas, Esq., a Cultural Commendation for a  fine-flowered plant of 
Odontoglossum Cervantesii decorum. 
ApriL 19th. To Messrs. F. Sander and Co., a First Class Certificate for Cattleya 
_ Burberryana, a cross between C. intricata and C. superba, having flowers the shape of 
the last named, measuring some six inches across; sepals and petals white, flushed with 
pink, the middle lobe of the lip being dark crimson. 
(Continued under Plate 463.) 
