432 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1916. 
-several good Cattleya Schroederz, several brilliant Odontiodas, including 
-O. Charlesworthii with five side branches, an altogether unusual character, 
-a fine Odontoglossum polyxanthum, and others (Silver Banksian Medal). 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged an interesting group, 
including a fine plant of Lycaste Skinneri Mrs. G. Hamilton Smith, the 
-striking Ccelogyne Lawrenceana, a well-flowered Plurothallis gelida, 
Odontoglossums, Sophronitis grandiflora, &c. (Silver Banksian Medal). 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, sent a few good seedlings, 
including Odontoglossum promerens Orchidhurst var. and QO. exultans 
(crispum X excellens). 
Mr. Harry Dixon, Wandsworth, sent a few good Odontoglossums and 
‘Odontiodas, Cypripedium Maudiz, Cattleya intermedia, and others. 
Messrs. Flory & Black, Slough, sent good forms of Dendrobium 
Thwaitesiz and D. chessingtonense, and a few good Leliocattleyas and 
Odontoglossums, a seedling O. crispum being very promising. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Jarvisbrook, staged an interesting group, 
‘including examples of Vanda Parishii and var. Marriottiana, V. coerulescens 
-and var. Boxallii, Renanthera Imschootiana, Dendrobium atroviolaceum, 
iBrymerianum, a fine D. Jamesianum, Schomburgkia undulata, and others. 
Mr. C. F. Waters, Balcombe, sent a few good plants of Odontoglossum 
.crispum and others. 
On April 18th another meeting was held in connection with the Special 
Show of Narcissi, but very few Orchids put in an appearance, and the only 
award made. was one Preliminary Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present: Sir Harry J. Veitch (in the chair), J. 
O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. H. White, T. Armstrong, P. Ralli, and R. A. Rolfe. 
PRELIMINARY COMMENDATION 
ODONTIODA BRACKENHUuRST (Oda. Charlesworthii x Odm. eximium).— 
A crimson-red flower, with a broad lip of brighter colour, on which were a 
few white markings. Exhibited ky Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. 
OTHER EXxuHIBITs. 
H. J. Elwes, Colesborne, Gloucestershire, sent a fine spike of Phaius 
Ashworthianus (Phaiocymbidium chardwarense), having bright yellow 
flowers with red-brown markings on the lip. 
E. Mocatta, Esq., Woburn Place, Addlestone i Mr. Stevenson), sent 
a plant of Lelia Flavina (flava x Iona), bearing a spike of four flowers. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, showed Odontoglossum 
promerens xanthotes (eximium xanthotes x crispum xanthotes), a promising 
white, with a few deep yellow spots on the lip, O. Erzeroum (Fascinator X 
crispum Luciani), a finely-shaped flower, with large red-brown blotches, 
and a fine plant of Dendrobium fusiforme with ten racemes. 
