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some hybrid, the flower having broad, rose-coloured sepals and petals, and 
a ruby purple lip lined with yellow on the disc. Exhibited by Messrs. 
J. & A. McBean. 
VANDA LUZONICA.—A striking Philippine species, which was described 
and figured at page 137 of our May issue. It is comparable with V. 
tricolor, and bore an inflorescence of six flowers, the sepals and petals 
being white, with a narrow transverse purple line at the base, and the lip 
violet purple in front. Exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons. 
SEEDLING COMMENDATION. 
ODONTOGLOssUM Doris NoOBILIOK (Ossulstonii x crispum).—A small 
seedling, bearing a single flower, which is of excellent shape, and the ground 
colour white, and bearing clusters of numerous red-purple spots, while the 
very broad lip is white in front, with some purple blotches in front of the 
yellow crest. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. 
At the meeting held on November 23rd there was again a good display 
of Orchids, and the awards consisted of four Medals, one First-class 
Certificate, and five Awards of Merit. Among plants labelled as previously 
certificated we noted Cypripedium Leeanum J. Gurney Fowler, and Lelio- 
cattleya Mrs. Evelyn Norrie (First-class Certificates), Cypripedium Ernest- 
Read and Sophrocatlelia Niobe (Awards of Merit). 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esg. (in the Chair), 
James O’Brien (hon. sec.), Sir Harry J. Veitch, J. Wilson Potter, R. A. 
Rolfe, Stuart H. Low, F. J. Hanbury, Pantia Ralli, R. G. Thwaites, 
Walter Cobb, J. Charlesworth, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, C. H. Curtis, 
H. G. Alexander, A. Dye, S. W. Flory, W. Bolton, R. Brooman White, 
and Gurney Wilson. 
R. W. Rickards, Esq., The Priory, Usky received a Silver Flora Medal 
for a small group of remarkably well-grown Cypripediums, with, a few 
Cattleyas. We noted a fine example of C. Rossetti var. Perfection, C. The 
Baron, C. Cyclops (Actzus X fulshawense), bearing a large and hand- 
somely blotched flower, C. Grittleton (Curtisii xX Stevensii), a richly- 
coloured form, C. Satyr (Euryades X Beryl), with very numerous small 
Spots, a beautiful example of C. Fairrieanum X Baron-Schréder, with fine 
tichly-marked flowers, and C. Mrs. Wm. Mostyn X insigne Harefield Hall 
var., bearing two fine flowers. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. J. Davis), 
staged a choice group, including a remarkably strong plant of Odonto- 
glossum crispum, with a large branching panicle of about 27 blush-white 
flowers, a fine ©. Pescatorei, the handsome Cypripedium Leeanum 
J. Gurney Fowler, C. Ernest Read, fine examples of Cattley e ged Lg 
C, Tityus, Leliocattleya Nelthorp-Beauclerc (L.-c. Gottoiana x C. Enid), 
