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purple on the lower halves, and the lip with a dark purple blotch in front of 
the yellow crest. Exhibited by Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, K.C.V.O. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION 
EPIDENDRUM LEUCOCHILUM.—To Mr. W. H. White, gr. to Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., for a very fine specimen, bearing six spikes of 
from eight to fifteen flowers, with greenish sepals and petals and a white lip. 
At the meeting held on Wednesday, May 14th, there was a very small 
display of Orchids, doubtless on account of the Spring Show to be held at 
Chelsea a week later, but the quality was good, and the awards consisted 
of four Cultural Commendations, three Awards of ‘Merit, one Botanical 
Certificate and one medal. 
‘Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
and Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, A. McBean, 
R. A. Rolfe, Walter Cobb, J. Cypher, H.-G. Alexander, A. Dye, 
W. H. White, S. W. Flory, and Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
Sir George H..Kendrick, Whetstone, Edgbaston, Birmingham (gr. Mr. 
Macdonald), was awarded a Silver Flora Medal for a group of a dozen fine 
plants of Dendrobium pulchellum (Dalhousieanum) all derived from one 
original one. The plants were four to five feet high, and bore three and 
four spikes each. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford (gr. Mr. White), showed 
a small group of choice and well grown Orchids, including the remarkable 
Dendrobium thyrsiflorum Galliceanum, in which the lip is shell-shaped 
and paler in colour than the type, a fine clump of Cochlioda sanguinea with 
numerous spikes, Leeliocattleya Fascinator, and fine examples of Odonto- 
glossum crispum Oakfield Sunrise, with a spike of thirteen flowers, O. c. 
Rossendale, and O. c. purpurascens. - 
W. R. Lee, Esq., Plumpton Hall, Heywood (gr. Mr. Branch), sent 
Odontoglossum Pavlova, of unrecorded parentage, and bearing a spike of 
eleven claret-coloured flowers. 
C. Alwyn Harrison, Esq., Lyndhurst, Watford, sent Lzliocattleya Elsie 
Lemare, with blush-pink sepals and petals, and a rose-purple lip with deep 
yellow throat, and Odontoglossum Ianthe Harrison’s var. (armainvillierense 
X Hallii-crispum), a white flower well blotched with cinnamon-brown. 
Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashtead Park, Epsom (gr. Mr. Farnes), sent Odont- 
ioda Sandere (C. Neetzliana x O. ciigeaeuiss bearing seven very brilliant 
rosy scarlet flowers. 
Mr. R. A. Rolfe showed flowers of two interesting hybrids, grown at 
Kew, the crosses having been made by him to prove the parentage of natural 
hybrids. These were Odontoglossum Lindleyanum x crispum, yielding a 
yellow flower blotched with brown, referable to O. Coradinei with rather 
