30 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
H. Tate, jun. Esq., Allerton Beeches, Liverpool, sent a very curious 
flower of Cypripedium insigne in which the lower sepal was an exact 
reproduction of the dorsal one, in shape, colour, and spotting. A note 
stated that a second flower on the plant was exactly similar. 
W. J. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Staff. (gr. Mr. Stevens), 
exhibited a fine specimen of the true Cattleya x Victoria-Regina, and the 
rare Odontoglossum prestans, a distinct and pretty Peruvian species. 
Mr. J. F. Wilkinson, The Gardens, Highlands, Minchin Hampton, 
staged a group of five well-flowered specimens of Cypripedium insigne, for 
which a Vote of Thanks was accorded. 
Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, 
received a First-class Certificate for Lelio-cattleya x Decia, a fine hybrid 
from Lelia Perrinii 2 and Cattleya Dowiana aurea ¢. They also sent 
Habenaria carnea nivosa and Cypripedium x Milo, a very pretty hybrid 
derived from C. insigne Chantinii ¢ and C. X cenanthum superbum 4. 
Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, staged a good group, including 
several rare varieties. It contained a series of forms of the beautiful Dendro- 
bium Phalenopsis, Lelia prestans, the pretty and distinct Selenipedium 
Sargentianum (described at page 239 of our first volume), the singular 
Catasetam Christyanum, a fine white Odontoglossum crispum, Coelogyne 
Gardneriana, the graceful little Epidendrum Laucheanum, Rolfe, Calanthe 
x Sandhurstiana, and others. A good plant of the curious Brazilian 
Pleurothallis strupifolia received a Botanical Certificate. The group also 
included two very pretty hybrid Cypripediums—C X Doncasterianum, 
derived from C. hirsutissimum ¢ and C. callosum 4, and bearing much 
resemblance to C. X porphyrochamys (supra, vol. i. p. 105, fig. 7), and C. 
mulus (J. ¢., p- 244) ; and C. x J. Bartels (C. Boxallii ¢ x C. callosum 9), 
a form with spotted petals, allied to C. x apiculatum (C. barbatum $ X i 
Boxallii 2). 
Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., Clapton, exhibited a very effective group, to 
which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. It contained some good forms 
of Cattleya labiata, Leelio-cattleya * Schilleriana, Vanda coerulea, 
Angraecum ‘sesquipedale, Oncidium Lanceanum, and about nine plants of 
Cypripedium Charlesworthii, one of them bearing a two-flowered scape. 
Mr. P. Mc Arthur, Maida Vale, also received a Silver Banksian Medal for 
an effective group, including Cattleya labiata, Catasetum Bungerothn aureum, 
Coelogyne speciosa, Lelia prestans, Oncidium Gravesianum, Epica 
cochleatum, Cypripedium tonsum, C. Chamberlainianum macranthum, an 
C. insigne aureum, a very pretty form with the ground colour almost 
ellow, but s otted in the usual way- 
go A. Peeters, te Gilles, Brussels, received an Award of Merit lors 
fine plant of the handsome Cattleya labiata Peetersii, a bizarre form described 
at p. 78 of our last volume, which is evidently constant 1n character. 
