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‘spots. An Award of Merit was also given to O. crispum Edward VII, a 
well-formed flower, tinged with light rose, and blotched with reddish-purple 
on the inner halves of the segments. 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, were awarded a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a nice group, containing plants of Lelia x Latona, a good . 
plant of L. x Digbyano-purpurata, having large, lavender-coloured flowers 
with a large fringed lip veined with purple, Cattleya intermedia alba, 
Lzlio-cattleya X highburyensis, Odontoglossum X elegantius, and others. 
An Award of Merit was given to Lelio-cattleya x Cybele (L-c. X 
Schilleriana X C. Trianz), a handsome hybrid with lavender tinted sepals 
and petals, and a three-lobed lip, white at the base, the disc primrose 
yellow, and the front lobe marbled and veined with bright crimson purple. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, were awarded a Silver 
Banksian Medal for a nice group, containing a fine plant of Dendrobium 
Devonianum with twelve pseudobulbs bearing over three hundred flowers ; 
a good plant of D.thyrsifloruam, D. Findlayanum, D. Brymerianum, D. 
chrysotoxum, Cattleya intermedia nivea, C. Schroedere, C.S. aurantiaca, 
Phaius X Cooksoni, P. X Norman, Odontoglossum cirrhosum, Oncidium 
concolor, Lycaste Skinneri alba, and others: 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Sons, Holloway, received a Bronze Banksian 
Medal for a group containing some fine plants of Vanda suavis, V. tricolor 
superba, Calanthe Sanderiana, two good plants of Cymbidium Devonianum, 
C. X eburneo-Lowianum, Dendrobium Wardianum album, D. nobile, Ada 
aurantiaca, Odontoglossum Pescatorei, O. crispum, O.  triumphans, 
Masdevallia Shuttleworthii, Cattleya Mendelii, Cypripedium villosum, C. 
Boxallii nigrum, C. x Measuresianum, and others. 
Mr. Ed. Kromer, West Croydon, showed Lycaste lanipes and Angraecum 
ichneumoneum. 
Mr. J. Douglas, Edenside, Great Bookham, sent cut spikes of Phaius 
X Cooksoni and P. X Norman. 
At page 121 of our last issue it was recorded that Lelia Jongheana 
Kromeri received an Award of Merit. It should have been a First-class 
Certificate. 
CYPRIPEDIUM FAIRRIEANUM.—In 1870, there was in the collection of 
L. Van Houtte a stock of the charming Cypripedium Fairrieanum, of which 
specimens were retailed at ten francs each. To-day there remains only a 
single growth of this rare and favourite species, valued at from six to eight 
hundred francs or even more.—O. Ballif in Chronique Orch., p. 317. 
