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O. X EXIMIUM VAR. KING OF ENGLAND (fig. 24), derived from O. x q 
ardentissimum X O. crispum, is a very richly-coloured variety, the greater 4 
part of the white ground colour being largely obliterated by nearly confluent _ 
claret-red blotches, those on the lip being rather more brown. The flower — 
was rather past its best when taken, which accounts for the foreshortening 4 
of the dorsal sepal. q 
O. X C@RULEUM (fig. 25) is a very beautiful hybrid of unknown origin, ; 
though we suspect that O. x ardentissimum is in some way concerned in 
the parentage. It is of moderate ‘size, but of excellent shape, and the 
markings on the segments are of rather brighter shade of violet purple than 
in O. X gandavense. The markings on the lip are rather darker in colour. 
These two hybrids attracted universal attention at the Temple Show by 
reason of their novel break in colour, and all were greatly admired. M. — 
Vuylsteke must be congratulated on three such sterling acquisitions. = 
SOCIETIES, a 
RoyAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vin- 
cent Square, Westminster, on June 11th, when there was a very good : . 
display of Orchids, the awards consisting of seven Medals, one First-class 4 
Certificate and one Award of Merit. = | 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), staged 
a choice group of Odontoglossums with the brilliant Cochlioda Neetzliana, 
a Silver Flora Medal being awarded. It contained two plants of the hand- 
some Odontoglossum Xx Leo (Hallii Xx triumphans Lionel Crawshay), 
which is described on another page, a very fine dark form of O. Harryanum, 
two fine O. X Queen Alexandra, O. xX Souvenir de Victor Hye de Crom, 
differing from the original in having a white ground to the lip, O. X Craw- — 
shayanum, O. X bellatulum, O. x Othello, and O. x Urania. at 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Smith), a 
received a Silver Banksian Medal for a very interesting group, containing 
over forty species and varieties. Specially noteworthy were plants A 
Saccolabium ampullaceum and the rare orange-coloured S. curvifolium, the — | 
delicate little Pleurothallis ornata, with its remarkable club-shaped append- at 
ages on the sepals, Restrepia elegans, Cypripedium callosum Sander@, C. 
Curtisii, C. x selligerum majus, Lelia purpurata, forms of Masdevallia 
Chimera, the singular M. muscosa, forms of the brilliant M. coccinea and = 
M. ignea, M. caudata xanthocorys, M. tridactylites, and others. . 
Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), ? 
sent Cattleya Mendelii delicata, a beautiful blush-white form, with a light — 
purple blotch in front of the yellow disc of the lip, and Miltonia vexillari3 
chelseensis superba, a particularly fine form of the radiata type, W 
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