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O’Brieniana alba, a very beautiful pure white form with a sulphur yellow 
disc to the lip. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, also received a Silver Flora Medal 
for a very fine group, including some good Leeliocattleyas, two examples of 
Cattleya Rex with ten flowers each, a fine example of C. Gaskelliana Snow- 
flake with twelve flowers, C. X mollis, C. X Wavriniana, the handsome 
Pescatorea Lehmannii, numerous Odontoglossums, including some good 
O. crispum, O. X excellens, O. X armainvillierense, &c., some fine 
Dendrobium Phalenopsis, Brassocattleya Pluto, and a striking hybrid 
between Cattleya Grossii and Brassavola Digbyana, the charming little 
Orchis monophylla, with lilac flowers, and the leaves mottled with brown 
and green, Eria densa, Cirrhopetalum Roxburghii, Notylia bipartita, and 
other interesting things. An Award of Merit was given to Oncidium 
Sandere, a species of the O. Papilio group, approaching O. Kramerianum, 
but without the swollen nodes of the inflorescence. The dorsal sepal and 
petals are linear, erect, and sepia brown, the decurved lateral sepals yellow 
with reddish markings, the lip crisped, light yellow with reddish markings 
on the side lobes and margin, and the column bearing beard-like glands on 
each side. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, sent a very interesting 
little group, including two plants of Dendrobium Sandere, a fine Chysis 
levis, Lelia monophylla, and other interesting things, including several 
Cycnoches maculatum, showing both male and female flowers on separate 
plants, while one plant bore a spike of nine male flowers with one larger 
flower at the base in a transition state between the two sexes. An Award 
of Merit was given to Pescatorea lamellosa, a rare species with cream yellow 
flowers, striped with dark purple on the fleshy ridged crest of the lip. 
Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, exhibited a fine plant of 
Odontoglossum X ardentissimum Doris, bearing a branched panicle of 
white flowers, heavily blotched with claret-purple. . 
OPHRYS APIFERA VAR. ALBIFLORA. 
An albino of the Bee Orchis, Ophrys apifera, is sent by G. F. Moore, Esq., 
Chardwar, Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos., together with the typical form. 
Mr. Moore writes (June 27th): ‘‘ The Bee Orchis is just out, and we have 
found a white one, which, I think, is rare. I have not seen it before, and 
shall be glad to know if it is uncommon.” The albino form is certainly-rare, 
but is found occasionally growing with the type. It was recorded as 
early as 1817, in Curtis’ Flora Londinensis, and a single flower figured (i. t. 
31, fig. 1), together with the type, the author remarking: ‘ Of the present 
plant a very elegant variety has been kindly communicated to me by the 
Rev. Mr. Uhthoff, of Huntingfields, who has observed it for several years in 
