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three flowers. The plant, Mr. Groves informed us, was grown under 
ordinary cool treatment, and the raft covered with living sphagnum moss, 
which was kept constantly moist, and nourished a crop of small sundews 
(Drosera rotundifolia). The flower spikes of the latter may be seen in the 
illustration with the aid of a lens, and are much clearer in the original 
photograph. In the following year the plant received a Gold Medal and a 
Cultural Certificate at Manchester, and in 1902 it excelled itself, for Mr. 
Groves sent us a photograph showing six spikes, nearly three feet high, and 
bearing an average of thirty flowers each, the individual blooms being as 
large as a five shilling piece. There were eight spikes, but one succumbed 
to the attacks of a slug, and the other pushed up when the flowers of the 
rest were beginning to open. 
The species was originally discovered by Warscewicz on the Cordillera 
of Chiriqui, at 8000 to gooo feet elevation, and was described from dried 
specimens (Rchb. f. in Bot. Zeit., 1852, p. 692), being introduced to 
cultivation thirty or more years later by Messrs. Sander. It is allied to O. 
coronarium, Lindl., but is readily distinguished by its larger, very undulate 
flowers, which are red-brown in colour, with a yellow lip. It is a rare and 
striking species. The plant has been acquired for Kew. R.A.R. 
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RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
HE first meeting after the Chelsea Show was held at the Roya] 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on June 6th, and 
brought together a moderate display of Orchids, the awards consisting of 
six Medals and two Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present :—Sir. Harry J. Veitch (in the Chair), J. 
O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), de B. Crawshay, Gurney Wilson, S. W. Flory, C. 
Cookson, J. Charlesworth, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Stuart H. Low, 
F. J. Hanbury, P. Ralli, E. R. Ashton, Walter Cobb, C. H. Curtis, and 
R. A. Rolfe. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM LAMBARDEANUM GATTON PRINCE (Vuylstekee X 
coeruleum).—A handsome hybrid, shown as of unrecorded parentage, but 
recognised by the Committee as a form of O. Lambardeanum. The plant 
bore a spike of six fine flowers, with large dark claret-purple blotches on a 
white ground. Exhibited by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. 
Mr. J. Collier). 
WILSONARA INSIGNIS (Oncidioda Charlesworthii x Odontoglossum 
illustrissimum).—A striking hybrid, most resembling the Oncidioda parent 
