aig THE. ORCHID REVIEW. [JuLy-AUGUST, 1920, 
latifolia is said to have spotted leaves, and partly because the original 
‘O. Braunii is said to have green leaves. Whatever its original name may 
‘be, we have evidence that the hybrid is common, widely-diffused, fertile, 
and subject to reversion. Its beauty cannot be called in question, and 
someone might now give us the necessary confirmation of its origin, for we 
have plenty of evidence that the seeds germinate freely under suitable 
conditions. The case of O. folioso-maculata is entirely parallel, it having 
-appeared spontaneously in at least three different places where O. foliosa 
has been grown in company with O. maculata. 
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Roya HorrTicuLTuRAL. 
MEETING of the Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Westminster, on May 11th, when there was only a moderate display 
-of Orchids, and these rather scattered about the building. | 
Orchid Committee present: Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in the chair), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Sir Harry J. Veitch, W. Bolton, Arthur Dye, 
S. W. Flory, J. Charlesworth, W. J. Kaye, J. E. Shill, F. K. Sander, 
T. Armstrong, E. R. Ashton, Pantia Ralli, F. J. Hanbury, R. A. Rolfe, 
-G. Wilson, R. G. Thwaites, C. J. Lucas, and R. Brooman White. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CATTLEYA SNOWFLAKE VAR. NoEL (Dusseldorfii Undine x labiata 
-alba).—A beautiful albino, bearing two flowers with a yellow lemon disc to 
the lip. From Sir Herbert S. Leon. 
Opontiopa GLoss BROADLANDS VAR. (Oda. Charlesworthii x Odm. 
‘triumphans).—A handsome form, having broad uniformly orange-red sepals 
-and petals, and some yellow on the lip. From E. R. Ashton, Esq. 
ODONTOGLOssUM FaBiA RALLI’s VAR. (eximium X Aglaon).—A very 
fine claret-purple flower, margined with white, and with a handsomely 
blotched lip. From Pantia Ralli, Esq. 
SILVER FLorA MEDALS. 
To E. R. Ashton, Esq., Broadlands, Camden Oak, Tunbridge Wells, 
for a fine group, including Odontioda Camden (Oda. Coronation X Odm. 
illustrissimum), bearing a dozen very round and richly-coloured flowers, 
margined with white, Odontoglossum Cloth of Gold (amabile x Wilck- 
eanum), a fine O. Ashtonii, O. Ossulstonii, O. harvengtense, O. mirum, a 
well-coloured O. crispum roseum, and several good blotched forms. 
To H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), for a 
good group, including a handsome form of Miltonia Charlesworthii, forms 
of M. vexillaria, some brilliant Odontiodas and Odontoglossums, among the 
