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H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), sent a 
very finely-developed plant of the remarkable New Guinea Bulbophyllum 
Balfourianum, bearing four of its large, fleshy, greyish green leaves, and 
five large flowers, copiously blotched and marbled with chocolate-brown on 
a cream-yellow ground. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a choice group of 
Orchids, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was awarded. It included a 
brilliant form of Miltonia Hyeana, the handsome M. J. Gurney Fowler, and 
others, Brassavola Digbyana with three flowers, a good Cattleya Gaskel- 
liana alba, a fine example of Odontonia Lairesseze, Odontioda heatonensis 
and several of the scarlet forms, with Leliocattleyas and a few promising 
seedling Odontoglossums. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, received a Silver Flora 
Medal for a group of finely-grown specimens, including the beautiful blush- 
pink Cattleya Warscewiczii Mrs. E. Ashworth with six flowers, two fine 
forms of C. Gaskelliana with nine flowers each, a light form of C. 
Mossiz, a specimen Miltonia Bleuana with ten strong spikes, the hand- 
some M. vexillaria var. Lyoth, a fine plant of Masdevallia Schlimii with 
fifteen spikes, M. Chimera, some good Lzliocattleyas, Odontoglossums, 
and others. 
- Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged a small group, including 
Odontonia Aphrodite (M. Warscewiczii X Odm. Magali-Sander), well 
blotched with red-purple on a white ground, a good example of Miltonia 
Isabel-Sander (Hyeana X Roezlii), white with a dark maroon base to the 
lip, two good examples of Phalznopsis amabilis, Angrecum falcatum, 
Brassavola Digbyana, the rare Megaclinum Clarkei, Luisia Psyche, Leelio- 
cattleya Martinetii vinifera, and a few other interesting things. 
At the meeting held on July 17th there were again two fine medal 
groups, but only two plants were entered to go before the Committee, to 
one of which a Preliminary Commendation was given. 
Orchid Committee present : Sir Jeremiah Colman, Batt. (in the chair), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, E. R. Ashton, J. Wilson Potter, R. A. 
Rolfe, F. J. Hanbury, Arthur Dye, F. R. Sander, Pantia Ralli, S. W. 
Flory, R. Brooman White, Walter Cobb, T. Armstrong , J. Charlesworth, 
C. H. Curtis, and Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
PRELIMINARY COMMENDATION. 
OpontToGLossum Litian (Dora x Empress of India).—A charming 
thing, bearing its first flower, which has the general shape of an enlarged O. 
Pescatorei, all the segments being very broad and rounded, and the lip 
exceptionally so, while the colour is clear white, with a zone of light violet 
blotches on the segments. Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
