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L#LIOCATTLEYA LUMINOSA VAR. MANDARIN (L.. tenebrosa Walton 
Grange var. X C. Dowiana aurea).—A large and handsome form, having 
bright chrome yellow sepals and petals, and a claret purple lip, with paler 
margin. Exhibited by Lieut.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford. 
OponToGcLossuM Empress EvGENIE (parentage unrecorded).—A large 
and beautiful hybrid having waxy white sepals and petals, with a mauve 
suffusion and some darker spotting, and a broad flat white lip, with some 
purplish blue spots in front of the yellow crest. It may be a secondary 
hybrid of O. Rolfez. Exhibited by E. H. Davidson, Esq. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM NIGRESCENS (Edwardii X cirrhosum).—A very distinct 
and attractive hybrid, most like O. cirrhosum in shape, but with shorter, 
broader segments, blackish purple in colour, with pale tips and a small 
white base to the petals, while the lip is more chocolate-coloured, with a 
pale tip and a yellow disc. Exhibited by Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, 
Cooksbridge. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
Cattteya Tacitus (Grossii x Germania superba).—To Mr. H. G. 
Alexander, gr. to Lieut.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, for a remarkably strong 
plant, the last growth being four feet long, and bearing a very fine spike of 
flowers. 
At the meeting held on August 27th there was a good display of Orchids, 
and the award list contained five medals, five Awards of Merit, and one 
Cultural Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, Gurney Wilson, de B. Crawshay, 
A. Dye, H. G. Alexander, J. E. Shill, W. H. Hatcher, W. Cobb, A. A. 
McBean, T. Armstrong, F. J. Hanbury, Stuart H. Low, R. A. Rolfe, Sir 
Jeremiah Colman, and Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
E. H. Davidson, Esq., Borlases, Twyford (gr. Mr. Cooper), staged a very 
fine group, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was awarded. It contained 
some specially well-grown Odontoglossums, including O. Rolfez with three 
immense branched spikes, forming quite a picture, O. spectabile with two 
spikes, each four feet long, O. percultum, O. Ceres Davidson’s var., O. 
Nathaniel, having well-shaped flowers, the sepals and petals almost solid 
claret-purple, margined with lilac, and the lip with a much broader white 
margin, O. armainvillierense, good forms of Cattleya Fabia, C. Dowiana 
aurea, C. Adula, C. Rothschildiana Borlasses var., having white flowers 
with a yellow throat to the lip and some purple veining on the front lobe, 
Lzliocattleya Colmaniana Borlases var., a fine dark form, and Sophro- 
cattleya Pandora, with a fine crimson flower. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), received a 
