186 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AuGust, 1917. 
be noticed, curl spirally at the apex, while the erect dorsal sepals are piled 
up into a sort of cone in the centre of the inflorescence. The nearly 
horizontal peduncle is not shown, being on the other side of the 
inflorescence. B. Ericssonii is one of the few Bulbophyllums which have 
received a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S., this award having been 
given to a plant exhibited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park, in 
1907. The history of the species was given at pages 233, 234 of our 
fifteenth volume. Both it and the allied and equally remarkable B. 
virescens have recently flowered well at Kew. 
@| SOCLEJIES. | 
Royal HORTICULTURAL. 
HE usual fortnightly meeting was held at the London Scottish Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, on July 3rd, when there 
was a good display of choice Orchids, and the awards consisted of two 
medals, one award of Merit, and one Preliminary Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present: Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in the chair), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Sir Harry J. Veitch, J. Wilson Potter, Stuart H. 
Low, F. J. Hanbury, Pantia Ralli, T. Armstrong, A. McBean, Arthur Dye, 
C. H. Curtis, Walter Cobb, W. H. White, F. K. Sander, R. Brooman 
White, J. Charlesworth, R. A. Rolfe, and C. J. Lucas. 
AWARD OF MERIT. | 
ODONTOGLOSSUM QUEEN ALEXANDRA VAR. MEMORIA LIONEL CRAW- 
SHAY (Harryanum X triumphans Lionel Crawshay).—A large and very 
handsome form, having broad, chocolate-brown sepals and petals, margined 
_ and tipped with yellow, and a very broad lip, violet-purple at the base and 
white in front of the yellow crest. Exhibited by de Barri Crawshay, Esq- 
PRELIMINARY COMMENDATION. 
ODONTIODA MEMORIA LIONEL Crawsnay (Odm. Urania X Oda. Charles 
worthii).—An interesting novelty, bearing a single large flower, of good 
shape and substance, the sepals and petals of a nearly uniform light 
brownish orange, and the lip shading off to pale yellow in front, and with @ 
deep yellow crest. Exhibited by de Barri Crawshay, Esq. 
GENERAL EXuIBITs. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent 
Odontoglossum Cleopatra memoria Lionel Crawshay (Carmania x 
Vuylstekei), a fine thing, bearing a spike of six well-shaped flowers, in 
which the characters of O. Harryanum preponderate, the sepals and petals 
being sepia brown with yellow margins, and the lip violet-purple behind 
and white in front of the yellow crest. 
