24 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY.. 1974. 
a rich crimson lip with yellow veining. Exhibited by Baron Brun 
Schréder. : 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CyPRIPEDIUM GOLIATH (insigne Harefield Hall var. x Amy Moore).—A _ 
large and handsome form, most like the former in general character, with 
very dark blotches on the dorsal sepal. Exhibited by W. R. Lee, Esq. 
CYPRIPEDIUM STRELSA (insigne Harefield Hall var. x Alcibiades).—A 
finely shaped form, having a broad white dorsal sepal, with dotted purple 
lines above the green base. Exhibited by W. R. Lee, Esq. 
L#LIOcATTLEYA AvTopoIN (L. autumnalis x C. Octave Doin),—A 
handsome form, approaching the Lelia parent in general character, and 
bearing a good spike of bright rose-purple flowers with a paler throat to the 
lip. Exhibited by Messrs. J. and A. McBean. 
L#LIOCATTLEYA Mrs. TEMPLE VAR. DREADNOUGHT (L.-c. Green- 
woodii X C. Mossiz).—A charming light rose-purple flower, with a white 
throat to the lip and purple mottling in front. Exhibited by C. J. Phillips, 
Esq., The Glebe, Sevenoaks. 
Opbontiopa LaTona Goopson’s var. (Odontoglossum spectabile X 
Odontioda Bradshawiz).—A beautiful form, bearing a spike of sixteen — 
bright scarlet flowers, with a few white markings on the sepals and petals. 
Exhibited by H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day). 
ODONTOGLOSSUM SATURNE VAR. VIOLACEUM (apterum X_ spectabile).— 
A handsome form, having the flowers tinged with violet and well blotched - 
with red-brown. Exhibited by M. Henri Graire. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
L&LIocaTTLEYA GoLDEN BEAuTy.—To Mr. H. G. Alexander, Orchid 
grower to Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, for a very fine plant bearing two 
spikes, the best having fifteen deep golden yellow flowers, with the front 
lobe and disc of the lip ruby crimson. 
There was no Show on December 16th, but the Committee sat upstairs 
to adjudicate upon the Orchids submitted for Certificate. 
_ Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, W. Bolton, A. McBean, 
. W. H. Hatcher, S. W. F lory, H. G. Alexander, T. Armstrong, A. Dye, 
de B. Crawshay, Stuart Low, R. A. Rolfe, J. Charlesworth, R. G. 
. Thwaites, W. Cobb, W. H. White, 'F. J. Hanbury, J. E. Shill, and Sir 
- Harry J. Veitch. 
Baron Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green (gr. Mr. Shill), 
showed the handsomely - blotched Odontoglossum armainvillierense 
Ebor. Re ee 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander), 
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