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brown sepals and petals and comparatively little yellow, to which an Award 
of Merit was given. 
F. M. Burton, Esq., Gainsborough, showed a very fine form of Odonto- 
glossum polyxanthum, and Cypripedium xX tessellatum porphyritis, a very 
bright rose-purple flower with a few blackish spots on the petals. 
R. G. Fletcher, Esq., Withdean, Brighton, sent examples of Phrag- 
mipedilum caudatum and its pouchless variety Lindeni. 
W. A. Gillett, Esq., Fairoak Lodge, Bishopstoke (gr. Mr. Carr), sent a 
number of excellent cut spikes, including some fine Dendrobium nobile, 
a superb Cypripedium Rothschildianum, C. Haynaldianum, several fine 
forms of Odontoglossum crispum, O. X Coradinei, O. luteopurpureum, and 
a fine O. Pescatorei. 
C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., Godalming (gr. Mr. Bond), showed the hand- 
some Leelio-cattleya x Dominiana Sir William Ingram. 
R. I.. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. 
Chapman), showed Cypripedium x Thyades (superbiens X Chamberlain- 
ianum), with a light-green dorsal sepal narrowly lined with purple, undulate 
greenish white petals much spotted with purple, and the lip rosy-red. 
F. A. Rehder, Esq., The Avenue, Gipsy Hill, sent Miltonia flavescens, 
and Cypripedium x Mrs. Rehder (Argus X Rothschildianum), a fine flower 
with yellowish ground colour, lined with brown on the dorsal sepal and 
somewhat tinged with green, and the petals much spotted with dark 
chocolate. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, showed 
Dendrobium xX crepidato-nobile (nobile @ xX crepidatum ¢), a pretty 
hybrid most like the pollen-parent, the flowers white tipped with rose, and 
bearing a claret-coloured blotch on the lip; also Epidendrum X elegantulum 
luteum, a very pretty variety with yellow sepals and petals, to which an 
Award of Merit was given. 
Messrs. J. McBean & Sons, Cooksbridge, sent Odontoglossam xX 
excellens McBeanianum, a very fine, well-blotched variety, to which an 
Award of Merit was given. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, staged a very pretty 
group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. It contained a 
number of good forms of Cattleya Mendelii, Phalenopsis Sanderiana, 
Lelia X Latona, some good examples of Miltonia Roezlii alba, and other 
interesting things. 
At the meeting held on May 16th, exhibits were less numerous, doubtless 
owing to the proximity of the annual Temple Show, but the quality was 
well maintained, two First-class Certificates and five Awards of Merit being 
given. The members of the Committee present were :—H. J. Veitch., Esq., 
