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C. Gaskelliana, C. X Hardyana, C. Eldorado ornata with purple-tipped 

 petals, the pure white C. E. Wallisii, C. superba splendens, and C. 

 Harrisoniana, together with some good examples of Cypripedium niveum. 



Messrs. W. Bull & Son's, King's Road, Chelsea, exhibited Cypri- 

 pedium X Decia (Charlesworthii X superciliare), most resembling the 

 former parent, but having a larger dorsal sepal more closely veined with 



Mr. J. Douglas, Edenside, Great Bookham, showed L&lio-cattleya X 

 Juno Edenside variety (C. Mossise X L. grandiflora), said to be the 

 reverse cross of the original form, and most resembling the Laelia parent 

 in general character. 



The Report of the Scientific Committee for the same date contains the 

 following : — 



Cattleya and L.elia Cross.— Mr. Douglas exhibited a plant, L.-c. X 

 Juno Edenside var., the result of crossing C. Mossiae with L. majalis. It 

 is usually considered an invariable rule that hybrid Orchids betray the 

 characters of both parents ; the present plant, though an undoubted cross, 

 was thought to be exceptional in this respect, shewing relatively little of 

 the Cattleya. A coloured illustration which Mr. Douglas exhibited of C. 

 Mossiae, together with the plant, showed a degree of yellow in the throat 

 which was wanting in the living plant. L. majalis has a very spotted lip, 

 but this feature was also wanting in the plant. That a cross or hybrid, 

 although usually intermediate, may have one or other parent prepotent is 

 well known; but the second generation, as Dr. Masters observed, will 

 often reveal the other parentage more completely. 



Dendrobium Dalhousianum synanthic. — Dr. Masters exhibited a 

 specimen (received from Mr. W. Potter, Beckenham) of two flowers 

 coherent by their ovaries and the two adjacent sepals, all the other parts 

 being distinct. 



A second meeting was held on August 19th, when there was a^ain a 

 small but very interesting display of Orchids. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford Bridge (gr. Mr. White), showed a 

 small group containing Cattleya X Parthenia rosea, a very fine specimen 

 of Odontoglossum aspidorhinum, having twenty-four spikes of flowers, the 

 sprays arching all round the plant in a very graceful manner (Cultural 

 Commendation) ; a good example of Sarcanthus appendicular, a pretty 

 little species with terete leaves and longish racemes (Cultural Commenda- 

 tion) : and the rare Brazilian Houlletia Brocklehurstiana (Botanical 

 Certificate). 



F. Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Gilbert), received a 



