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dark colour. The sepals and petals are dark reddish-claret with a narrow 
whitish margin, and the lip is dark red, with a white area in front and a 
deep yellow crest. Exhibited by G. W. Bird, Esq., Manor House, West 
Wickham (gr. Mr. Redden). 
OponTOGLossuM cCRISPUM THE BRrITISHER.—A fine home-raised 
seedling, bearing large blush white flowers, about 3} inches across and of 
fine substance, the lip having a few dark red markings round the yellow 
crest. Exhibited by Mrs. F. M. Ogilvie, The Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. 
W. Balmforth). : 
PRELIMINARY COMMENDATION, 
ODONTOGLossUM ARMSTRONGII (crispum X Armstrongiz).—A brilliant 
seedling, the flower being very large, and having broad, overlapping 
segments of good substance, and the colour white, with about two-thirds of 
the area covered with large violet-purple blotches. Exhibited by Messrs. 
Armstrong & Brown. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
H.T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), sent a 
plant of Nanodes Medusz bearing four fine flowers. 
A. R. Cunliffe, Esq., Woodford, Salisbury, sent a plant of Brasso- 
cattleya imperialis bearing two large flowers. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a particularly 
fine group, gaining a Silver-gilt Flora Medal. It contained numerous 
Odontoglossums, Odontiodas, and Leliocattleyas, some choice Miltonias, 
a series of albino Cypripediums, including callosum Sandere, Lawrence- 
anum Hyeanum, Maudie and Holdenii, a well-bloomed Maxillaria tenuifolia, 
good examples of Odontioda Clotho and Chantecler, with other good things. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, received a Silver F lora 
Medal for a fine group, including examples of the handsome Miltonia 
Charlesworthii, Lzeliocattleya Martinetii, Cordelia, and others, Cattleya 
Stuartii virginalis, Anguloa Clowesii, Caelogyne burfordiensis, the bright 
rose-purple Saccolabium ampullaceum, two well-bloomed Masdevallia 
muscosa, Lelia lobata alba, the yellow Odontoglossum luteopurpureum 
Vuylstekeanum, O. Williamsianum, good examples of O. eximium 
xanthotes, Wilsonara insignis, Odontioda Edna, Cypripedium Iris (Maudie 
X Chamberlainianum), with three flowers, and others. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Jarvisbrook, also received a Silver Flora 
Medal for a fine group, including good examples of Cattleya Mossie and 
var. Wageneri, C. Rothschildiana, some well grown Disa Luna, Sophro- 
catlelia Marathon, Sophrolalia Orpetiana, the richly-coloured Lelio- 
cattleya Dominiana, Odontoglossum Lambeanium, Odontioda Vuylstekez, 
Q. Evelyn, and others, in well-grown examples. 
