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contained two good plants of the rare Grammangis Ellisii, some good 
Lzlia tenebrosa, Odontoglossum crispum, Dendrobium Dearei and 
Brymerianum, Miltonia vexillaria, Oncidium concolor and _ sarcodes, 
_ Epidendrum vitellinum, Cattleya granulosa, C. Mendelii, and other showy 
things. 
Norman C. Cookson, Eaq. Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Murray), 
sent Phaius X oakwoodiensis (P. x Cooksoni ? xX P. Humblotii 3), a 
very beautiful hybrid, to which a First-class Certificate was given. The 
flowers were most like those of P. Humblotii in shape, with rosy sepals and 
petals, and a ruby-purple lip, bearing a pair of bright-yellow crests. 
Colonel W. E. Brymer, Islington House, Dorchester (gr. Mr. Powell), 
staged a splendidly-grown specimen of Coelogyne Sanderiana bearing fifteen 
racemes, which gained the Award of a Silver Banksian Medal. 
F. W. Moore, Esq., Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, sent a flower of 
the remarkable Masdevallia deorsa, the first produced in Europe, and 
Odontoglossum coronarium Glasnevin variety, a yellow form in which the 
usual brown markings were nearly suppressed, each of them gaining an 
Award of Merit. 
Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, exhibited a large and very well 
flowered clump of Dendrobium Phalznopsis, and several good hybrid 
Cypripediums, including C. x Kimballianum, C. x A. de Lairesse, C. x 
Lady Maple, C. X Mabeliez var. Lord Derby, and C. x Haynaldiano- 
Hookere (Haynaldianum ¢ X Hookere 3), a very pretty intermediate 
form. 
The greatet part of the Society’s collection of Orchid drawings was also 
_exhibited—the exceptions being Cattleya and Cypripedium—and madea 
very fine display, the number being just over three hundred. The accuracy 
and artistic merit of the drawings were universally recognized, and the 
Orchid Committee recommended the award of a Silver Flora Medal to 
Miss Roberts, the Society’s artist. 
A third meeting was held on July 31st, when the exhibits were again 
few in number, but excellent in quality, and a specially interesting feature 
was the display made by the Society’s collection of paintings of Certificated 
Orchids. The members of the Orchid Committee present were :—H. as 
Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and Messrs. T. W. Bond, H. J. Chapman. W. 
Cobb, J. Colman, De B. Crawshay, J. G. Fowler, J. T. Gabriel, E. Hill, 
H. M. Pollett, T. Rochford, F. J. Thorne, C. Winn, W. H. OU and J. 
O’Brien (Hon. Sec.) alee 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Yours): - 
staged a choice little group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It 
contained a fine form of Cattleya Warscewiczii, the beautiful C...x.. Whitei - 
