NoveMBER, 1916.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 273 
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RoyAL HORTICULTURAL. 
HE usual fortnightly meeting was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on October roth, and _ brought 
together a good display of Orchids, and the awards consisting of six 
medals, and three Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present :—Sir Harry J. Veitch (in the Chair), J. 
O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Stuart H. Low, R. A. 
Rolfe, F. J. Hanbury, R. G. Thwaites, Pantia Ralli, T. Armstrong, Walter 
Cobb, J. Charlesworth, J: Cypher, C. H. Curtis, W. H. White, S. W. 
Flory, W. Bolton, C. J. Lucas, R. Brooman White, Gurney Wilson, and 
Clive Cookson. 
; AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CATTLEYA VENUS ORCHIDHURST VAR. (Iris X Dowiana aurea).—A 
brilliant hybrid of the C. Iris type, both shape and colour being excellent. 
The sepals and petals are bronzy yellow with paler margins, and the lip 
rich ruby red, with deep yellow veining on the disc. Exhibited by Messrs. 
Armstrong & Brown. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM PERCULTUM VAR. NICATOR (armainvillierense xX 
Rolfez).—A handsome. variety, bearing two spikes, each with eleven 
flowers, the segments being broad and of good shape, and the colour 
reddish claret, margined with white, while the broad lip is white in front, 
with some ruby-red markings round the yellow crest. Exhibited by 
Ernest R. Mocatta, Esq., Woburn Place, Addlestone (gr. Mr. Stevenson). 
SopHROCATL&HLIA LuTeTia (Scl. Sandhaghe X C. Fabia).—A brilliant 
hybrid, the flower being large and most like the Cattleya in shape, while 
the colour is crimson with a bronzy shade, and the lip claret with some 
orange veining in the throat. Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
R. Windsor Rickards, Esq., Usk Priory, Monmouth, sent an interesting 
little group of Cypripediums, with a good example of Odontoglossum 
Albion rubescens (percultum X Rossii rubescens). The Cypripediums 
included good forms of C. Curtisil, Cavalier, nito-Cynthia, Curlew, Mrs. 
Alfred Fowler, and C. Eudora (Gowerianum X Mary Beatrice), the latter 
a large and richly-coloured flower of good shape. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Hannington), 
showed two distinct Lzliocattleya luminosa aurea, one having canary- 
yellow sepals and petals, the other with those organs primrose yellow, the 
lip being dark yellow in each case. 
