DECEMBER, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 365. 
At the meeting held on November 17th there was a slight increase in 
the number of Orchid exhibits, and the awards consisted of four medals, 
two Awards of Merit, one Certificate of Appreciation, and one Cultural 
Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, De B. Crawshay, W. 
Bolton, S. W. Flory, E. H. Davidson, A. Dye, J. E. Shill, H. J. Chapman, 
C. H. Curtis, W. H. Hatcher, J. Cypher, J. Charlesworth, W. Cobb, A. 
McBean, F. J. Hanbury, F. M. Ogilvie, R. A. Rolfe, J. Wilson Potter, Sir 
Harry J. Veitch, and Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
sent a plant of the rare Dendrobium Tofftii, a Queensland species closely 
allied to the Philippine D. taurinum, and bearing an erect inflorescence 
with three flowers, tinged with lilac towards the apex of the sepals and 
petals and with a broad, purple lip. 
J. T. Bennett-Pée, Esq., Holmewood, Cheshunt (gr. Mr. Downes), sent 
a good form of Brassocattleya Maronie. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a fine group, 
including a good series of blotched Odontoglossums, O. armainvillierense 
xanthotes, bearing a fine panicle, O. eximium xanthotes, a fine white form 
with a cluster of deep yellow spots on the centre of the sepals and on the 
lip, Odontioda Zenobia, Paphinia cristata with a twin-flowered spike, 
Cattleya Enid, C. Fabia alba, C. Portia with a fine spike of thirteen 
flowers, Sophronitis grandiflora, Leliocattleya Neleus, L.-c. St.-Gothard, 
the richly-coloured L.-c. Black-Prince, Brassocattleya Rutherfordii, and 
B.-c. Maroniz alba, a promising hybrid from B.-c. Leemanniz X L.-c. 
luminosa, bearing three fine flowers veined with yellow and purple, 
Dendrobium Dearei, good examples of Cypripedium Gaston Bultel, C. 
insigne Sandere, and others, with a row of Miltonia Bleuana and M.. 
St.-Andre in front (Silver Flora Medal). 
Messrs. J. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, staged a group of choice 
Cypripediums, in good examples, in which we noticed familiar forms of C. 
insigne and Leeanum, two well-grown C. Niobe, C. Madame Jules Hye, 
Boltonii, fulshawense, Gaston Bultel, beechense, elatior, C. Thalia Mrs. 
Francis Wellesley, and others (Silver Flora Medal). 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Jarvisbrook, Sussex, staged a fine group, 
containing three brilliantly-coloured Vanda ccerulea, a good example of © 
V. Sanderiana with seven flowers, well-grown plants of Dendrobium 
Phalzenopsis, Lzliocattleya luminosa, two well-flowered Miltonia vexillaria 
Leopoldii, Cattleya labiata R. I. Measures’ var., and good forms of the 
type, C. Hardyana alba, C. Fabia, C. Dowiana aurea, Oncidium varicosum 
and var. citrinum, the latter a charming clear yellow form without a trace 
