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coloured. The name appeared in Messrs. Sander’s Orchid Guide, p. 336, 
but we have not succeeded in finding any other record. It is a decided 
acquisition to the group. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of the R.H.S. was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on May 14th, when there was a very good 
display of Orchids. The awards consisted of seven Medals and two 
Awards of Merit. 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. 
Chapman), staged a choice group, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was 
given. It contained a series of fine Odontoglossums, chief among them 
being O. crispum Leonard Perfect and O. c. Fearnley Sander, both in fine 
condition. Others were O. c. Abner Hassall, O. c. Marie, Oo @ 
Whateleyz, O. c. Peetersii, O. c. Moonlight, with blotched sepals and a 
cluster of purple spots on the middle of the petals, O. c. Eustace, Ong 
Angela, and some unnamed spotted forms. The group also contained the 
beautiful Phaius xX Norman, P. x Phoebe, P. x Harold, P. x oakwoodi- 
ensis, P. X Ruby, Cattleya Schroedere alba, and other showy things. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a choice group of well-grown Odonto- 
glossoms, including O. c. Crawshayanum, O. c. Triane, O. ©. 
Raymond Crawshay, O. c. Mrs. de B. Crawshay, a beautiful white flushed 
with rose on the sepals, and others, also a fine O. X crispo- Harryanum, 
the pretty O. Rossii immaculatum, and O. x Urania (crispum X crista- 
tellum), a pretty darkly-blotched hybrid, which was described at page 349 
of our last volume. 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Smith), 
received a Silver Banksian Medal for a pretty little group of about three 
dozen plants, prominent among them being Cymbidium x Lowgrinum 
and C. Lowianum, Phaius x Norman, Cattleya Mendelii and C. 
Lawrenceana. There were also the interesting Masdevallia O’Brieniana, 
M. xanthina, M. ignea, M. Houtteana, the rare and striking M. trinema, 
and others. ; 
F. J. Hanbury, Esq., Stainforth House, Upper Clapton, received an 
Award of Merit for Oncidium leucochilum Mrs. F. J. Hanbury, having the 
sepals and petals almost uniformly dark purple-brown, contrasting 
effectively with the pure white lip. The spike was about four feet high, 
and bore fifteen branches with about 100 flowers. 
F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. Balmforth), 
received an Award of Merit for Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes White 
