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of C. Boxallii, while the C. Spicerianum character is very marked in the 
staminode. The much enlarged lower sepal, with the colouring of the 
dorsal, is another marked feature of this handsome variety. 
Ke BOCTETIES. |e 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
HE last meeting of the year was held at the London Scottish Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, on December 4th, 1917, and 
produced a fine display of Orchids, the awards consisting of a Williams 
Gold Medal and two other Medals, and two Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present: Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in the chair), 
< O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, E. R. Ashton, Arthur Dye, R. Brooman 
White, F. J. Hanbury, C. H. Curtis, Pantia Ralli, T. Armstrong, W. H. 
Hatcher, S. W. Flory, R. A. Rolfe, J. Charlesworth, J. E. Shill, Sir Harry 
J. Veitch, F. K. Sander, and Walter Cobb. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. - 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE vAR. Louis SANDER.—A remarkably fine variety 
of the Harefield Hall type, and having a very broad dorsal sepal, yellow- 
green below and white above, with large red-brown blotches, changing to 
clear purple on the white area, and the broad petals and lip reddish brown. 
Exhibited by Messrs. Sanders. 
SOPHROCATTLEYA Fagoris (C. Fabia X Sc. Doris).—A brilliant hybrid, 
approaching the Cattleya parent in size and shape, the sepals and petals 
canary yellow, and the lip rose, tinged with reddish purple, and some 
darker veining on the front lobe, with yellow veining in the throat. 
Exhibited by Mr. J. E. Shill, The Dell Gardens, Englefield Green. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
Dr. Miguel Lacroze, Bryndir, Roehampton (gr. Miss Robertson), showed 
Leliocattleya Serbia var Opal, a beautiful form, having white sepals and 
petals and a purple front to the lip, and Sophrocatlelia Marathon Bryndir 
var., with rosy-mauve sepals and petals, and a ruby-crimson lip with yellow 
veining in the throat. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a very fine group, 
to which a Williams Gold Medal was awarded. The outstanding feature 
was a series of the beautiful Cattleya Maggie-Raphael var. alba, having 
white sepals and petals and a coloured lip, but promising novelties were 
seen in Leliocattleya Diana var. Buttercup (Jacobus xX Ophir), with 
yellow sepals and petals, and a reddish-rose lip, with some purple veining 
on the side lobes, and Cypripedium Arthurianum nobilior (insigne Hare- 
field Hall var. x Fairrieanum), with handsomely blotched dorsal sepal. 
