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Miltonia vexillaria, Cattleya Skinneri alba and intermedia, Brassolelia 
Jessopti, Epidendrum ~ Boundii, Ccelogyne» pandurata, Cypripedium 
bellatulum, Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, Odontoglussum Thompson- 
ianum, and other Odontoglossums. 
Mr. C. F. Waters, Balcombe, received a Silver Banksian Medal fora 
group composed chiefly of Odontoglossum crispum and Pescatorei, with a 
few Cattleya Mendelii and Mossiz, Renathera Imschootiana, Lycaste 
Skinneri, Masdevallia Houtteana, Oncidium leucochilum, and Cyyripedium 
niveum and bellatulum. 
Mr. J. Evans, Manor House, Key Green, sent Odontoglossum Evansiz 
and O. Ruby Gem, two handsomely blotched hybrids. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, staged a number of Orchids 
in their Gold Medal group of Stove and Greenhouse plants, including some 
good Cattleyas, Leliocattleyas and Odontoglossums, Disa Luna, Lelia 
cinnabarina, Brassocattleya Morna, Miltonia vexillaria, &c. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM LONDESBOROUGHIANUM. 
IT is a profound puzzle to several of our Orchid growers why this remark- 
able species so seldom flowers in cultivation, and we have been asked for 
information of its habitat, in the hope that this may suggest a suitable mode 
of treatment. Unfortunately very little is known about it. It was 
introduced by Messrs. Backhouse & Sons, of York, and flowered for 
the first time in cultivation in the collection of Lord Londesborough, 
at Norbiton, Surrey, in December, 1876, when it received a First- 
class Certificate from the R.H.S., under the name of Oncidium 
Londesboroughianum (Gard. Chron., 1876, ii. p. 756), and although 
Reichenbach afterwards described it as Odontoglossum Londesborough- 
lanum (i.c., p. 772), we believe that it actually belongs to Oncidium, with 
which it agrees better in habit, structural details, and colour. It is a 
native of Mexico, and according to Mr. John Day, who figured it in 
December, 1879 (Orch. Draw., xxv. t. 73), was introduced by Messrs. 
Backhouse & Sons, in 1870, when both he and Mr. Wilkins, of Leyton, 
bought plants. After Mr. Wilkins’ death his collection was sold at 
Stevens’ Rooms, and it was this plant which was purchased by Lord 
Londesborough, and flowered as above recorded. Mr. Day’s plant died, 
and the one figured by him is said to have come “last September from 
Messrs. Backhouse, who made a vast importation of it from Mexico last 
winter and spring.’’ Messrs. Backhouse state that they do not know the 
habitat, though their collector informed them that it grows on shelving 
Tocks, fully exposed to the sun, where the temperature rises to 120° F, in 
the day time, and falls to 50° F. at night. They believe that they have 
received Odontoglossum citrosmum from the same region, if not from the 
