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shape and colour than might have been anticipated. In the large size and 
spots of the dorsal sepal the influence of what we take to have been the 
pollen parent is very marked. The ground colour of the flower may be 
described as cream yellow, with the upper part of the dorsal sepal white, and 
a tinge of green below. There is a slight tinge of rose in the petals, and 
the numerous small spots are reddish purple, those on the dorsal sepal being 
clearer purple where they extend beyond the green. The lip is brownish 
yellow, and the staminode yellow, with a prominent darker boss, and a few 
hairs behind. It is certainly very handsome, and Mr. Wellesley remarks, 
“It is one of the finest things I have ever seen.” 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on February 8th last, when there was a very fine display of 
Orchids, and the awards consisted of seven medals, four Awards of Merit, 
one Botanical Certificate, and one Cultural Commendation. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), sent 
a choice group, including a pretty hybrid Odontoglossum raised from O. 
Edwardii and O. sceptrum, bearing a compact spike of chocolate-purple 
flowers, with a yellow crest to the lip, and another from O. triumphans 
and O. X percultum, having cowslip-yellow flowers, barred and blotched 
with red-brown, the rare Ipsea speciosa, Spathoglottis x Colmanii, 
Masdevallia melanopus, M. tortilis, Angraecum hyaloides, the rare 
Oncidium Sanderianum, Phaiocalanthe Colmanii rosea, Cynorchis Lowiana, 
Cirrhopetalum Mastersianum, the handsome Dendrobium x Lady Colman, 
&c. An Award of Merit was given to D. x Duchess of Albany (Ellisii x 
Wiganiz xanthochilum), a charming thing, having blush-white flowers, 
with some narrow purple lines on the side lobes of the lip, and the disc 
tinged with sulphur. A Botanical Certificate was given to D. arcuatum, a 
pretty Javan species with slender leafy stems, and bearing racemes of about 
four white flowers, an inch across, with stout curved spurs. A Cultural 
Commendation was also given to a good plant of Cymbidium grandiflorum, 
bearing three racemes. 
E. Rogerson, Esq., West Didsbury, (gr. Mr. Price), staged a choice 
group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was awarded. It contained 
some good Dendrobium Wardianum, some handsomely blotched Odonto- 
glossum crispum, O. X armainvillierense, O. x Fascinator, and others, 
with a number of good Cypripediums, the more noteworthy being C. xX 
Mrs. E. Rogerson, a large and well-coloured flower, C. x Maurice (insigne 
Harefield Hall var. x Sallieri Hyeanum), a large and well-blotched yellow 
flower, C. X Olga Bagshawe, C. X Transvaal superbum, a fine dark C. ° 
