188 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THERE was again a good display of Orchids at the Drill Hall, James’ 
Street, Westminster, on May 2nd, though the exhibits were less numerous, 
and consequently not so crowded, as on the last occasion. The members 
of the Committee present were:—H. J. Veitch, Esq., in the chair, and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien) hon. sec.), H. Ballantine, T. W. Bond, H. J. Chapman, 
W. Cobb, J. Colman, S. Courtauld, De B. Crawshay, J. G. Fowler, J. T. 
Gabriel, E. Hill, J. Jaques, H. Little, F. Mason, A. Outram, H. T. Pitt, 
W. H. Protheroe, A. H. Smee, T. Statter, W. Thompson, W. H. White, 
and W. H. Young. 
The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, (gr. Mr. 
White), staged a charming little group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal 
was given. It contained a good example of the handsome Cirrhopetalum 
Collettii, a very fine specimen of C. Cumingii bearing twenty-nine of its 
handsome umbels of rose-purple flowers, Masdevallia O’Brieniana, a fine 
example of the remarkable Pleurothallis ornata, Dendrobium crepidatum, 
and a fine darker-coloured variety called var. maximum, the handsome D. 
xX Nestor, D. X micans giganteum, a large and handsome form, and D. 
xX Stratius. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Cooke), staged 
a small group of choice things, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. 
It contained a pretty blush-white form of Cattleya Mendelii, the rare 
Odontoglossum nevadense, a large and handsome form of O. triumphans, 
and a series of eleven distinct forms of the variable O. x Andersonianum, 
three of them each receiving an Award of Merit, namely, O. x A. Mrs. De 
B. Crawshay, a large cream-white flower with a few red-brown spots; 
O. X A. Raymond Crawshay, cream-white, with many small spots and 
markings confined to near the middle of the segments ; and O. x Rucker- 
ianum rosefieldense, with purplish-rose ground well spotted with brown. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), also 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a small group of choice things, including 
Lelio-cattleya xX Hippolyta aurantiaca with orange-coloured flowers, the 
very handsome Odontoglossum x Ruckerianum ocellatum, two handsome 
forms of O. crispum, a light form of O. x excellens with branched in- 
florescence, O. sceptrum Stevensii, a very fine O. polyxanthum with two 
spikes, to which a Cultural Commendation was given, and OQ. luteo- 
purpureum Thompson’s variety, with rich brown sepals and_ petals 
becoming yellow only at the tips, and the ground colour of the lip white, 
to which a similar award was given. 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells (gr. Mr. Howes), showed 
‘Odontoglossum triumphans Dulcote variety, a large form with broad dark- 
