254 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
At the meeting held on July gth a large number of rarities were 
exhibited, together with a fair number of the commoner showy species, few, 
however, being of exceptional merit. 
The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
White), staged a particularly interesting group, including the pretty little 
Polystachya Lawrenceana, Pleurothallis Grobyi, and P. macroblepharis, 
the remarkable Vanda Roeblingiana, Miltonia vexillaria, Epidendrum 
(Nanodes) Meduse, Dendrobium revolutum, an unnamed species of 
Oncidium and Maxillaria, a very distinct hybrid Cypripedium from C. X 
selligerum majus ? and C. Sanderianum ¢, Masdevallia Reichenbachiana, 
good plants of the deep purple M. Rolfeana and M. calura, the pretty M. X 
Stella, M. peristeria, the remarkable M. melanoxantha. Botanical Certifi- 
cates were awarded to the four following species :—Masdevallia guttulata, 
an unnamed Lueddemannia, since called L. triloba, Rolfe, Trichopilia 
hymenantha, and Oncidium olivaceum Lawrenceanum. 
G. Marshall, Esq., Claremont House, Grimsby (Mr. Johnson) 
exhibited a neat group of well-grown things, to which a Silver Banksian 
Medal was given. It contained half-a-dozen fine plants of Cattleya 
Warscewiczii, one of which had the petals very prettily variegated, a good 
C. Gaskelliana, Odontoglossum crispum, a fine specimen of Epidendrum 
vitellinum with sixteen spikes, and a raceme of the remarkable Lycomorium 
squalidum, a near ally of Peristeria. 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
exhibited a group consisting largely of cut blooms, to which a Vote of 
Thanks was accorded. It contained Lelio-cattleya Xx Schilleriana, 
Cattleya Gaskelliana and C. G. albescens, the white C. Eldorado Wallisii, 
C. Mendelii, with the lip curiously flaked with white and rose, Odonto- 
glossum Harryanum, Vanda Parishii, and Miltonia vexillaria albescens. 
An Award of Merit was given to Vanda tricolor planilabris, and Botanical 
Certificates to Masdevallia coriacea and Pleurothallis longissima. 
Lord Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill), sent good plants of three 
very interesting Orchids, each of which received a Botanical Certificate. 
They were—Polycycnis muscifera, with three fine racemes, Promenza 
stapelioides, and Oncidium olivaceum Lawrenceanum. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Cooke), ex- 
hibited a fine white Odontoglossum crispum called Mrs. De B. Crawshay, 
and a splendid plant of Brassia verrucosa bearing a dozen racemes. An 
Award of Merit was given to the latter. 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), received 
an Award of Merit for a fine form of Miltonia vexillaria called Constance 
Wigan, with light blush sepals and petals and a white lip. 
R. Foster Alcock, Esq., Northchurch, Berkhamsted, sent Lelia tenebrosa- 
F. A. Brown, Esq., Lawn Bank, Teddington (gr. Mr. Slater), exhibited 
