340 THE ORCHID REVIEW. |NOVEMBER, Igr4. 
At the meeting held on October 20th, the Orchids exhibited were 
rather more numerous, though below the average for the season, and the 
attendance was rather small. Two medals were awarded for groups, the 
other awards being one First-class Certificate and three Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, Gurney Wilson, S. W. Flory, 
G. Hunter, A. Dye, E. H. Davidson, W. P. Bound, H. G. Alexander, 
J. E. Shill, C. H. Curtis, W. H. Hatcher, J. Cypher, J. Charlesworth, 
Walter Cobb, F. J. Hanbury, R. A. Rolfe, C. J. Lucas, A. McBean, T. 
Armstrong, Stuart Low, and Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
T. J. Finnie, Esq., Claygate Lodge, Claygate (gr. Mr. Frogley), sent 
good forms of Cattleya labiata, one of them a fine specimen bearing seven 
inflorescences, and an aggregate of twenty-eight flowers, forming a very 
effective picture. 
Col. C. Francis Hayhurst, Bostock House, Middlewich (gr. Mr. A. H. 
Hall), sent Cypripedium Rolfei var. Col. Hayhurst (bellatulum xX Roth- 
schildianum), a vigorous plant, bearing a single flower with very dark 
veining on a cream-coloured ground. 
His Grace The Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock 
(gr. Mr. G. Hunter), sent Leliocattleya luminosa Blenheim var., a fine 
form, having bronzy yellow sepals and petals, and a broad violet-purple lip. 
A. Meyer, Esq., The: Briars, Whetstone, N., sent Lzeliocattleya Ledru 
Rollin (Carmen X Fabia), a well-shaped flower, with lilac-coloured sepals 
and petals, and a dark purple lip. 
Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashtead Park, Epsom (gr. Mr. Farnes), sent Brasso- 
cattleya Cliftonii The Globe, bearing two flowers, with very broad light- 
coloured sepals and petals and a well-fringed lip. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a group of 
choice things, including good forms of Cattleya Adula and Fabia, C. 
Frederickiz alba, C. labiata Penelope, white with a purple blotch on the 
front of the lip, Dendrobium formosum giganteum, D. Dearei, and D. 
Phalenopsis, a well-flowered Catasetum Randii, much like C. barbatum 
but with a much-toothed crest to the lip, Odontoglossum apterum with a 
four-flowered spike, a good form of O. crispum, Odontioda Joan and a 
dark O. Brewii, Leeliocattleya Golden Oriole, Thyone, luminosa, Arachne, 
Elinor and others, Brassocattleya Veitchii Queen Alexandra, Cypripedium 
Germaine Opoix, &c. (Silver Banksian Medal). 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged a fine group, including some 
good examples of Cattleya Hardyana, Mantinii, labiata, Fabia, Peeters!» 
and others, Leliocattleya Phoenix, Astorie, and Ophir, a profusely- 
flowered Dendrobium erizflorum, a good example of the rare Peristeria 
aspersa, with nearly globular flowers, spotted with dull purple on 4 pale 
