iz 
Cattleya x Mrs. J. W. Whiteley, C 
_ Fholidota conchoidea, P. articulata, Cypripedium Fairriea 
S. 
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cellent group, which included Lelia p 
: Leopoldi, C. Loddigesii albens, Cypripedium Lawrenceanh 
OcroBeR, 1906.} THE ORCHID REVIEW. 309 
large and handsome Brassocattleya Mrs. Francis Wellesley, Leelio-cattleya 
Duvaliana, Westfield var., and L.-c. Mrs. de Vere Beauclerk (L.-c. Ingrami 
x oe Trianz) a very handsome and shapely hybrid, with broad segments, 
to which latter an Award of Merit was deservedly given. The sepals and 
petals are white, tinged and slightly veined with rosy lilac, the disc of the 
lip dark orange, with minute reddish brown spots and lines at the base, and 
the front lobe claret-purple, with dark radiating lines. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), showed 
the remarkable Polystachya grandiflora, from West Tropical Africa, a 
Botanical Certificate being awarded. In this species the flowers are carried 
on vertical spikes, and are about 1} inches long, waxy in texture, pale green, 
tinged with purple, and with some purple markings on the lip. The flowers 
are produced in succession, and are the largest in the genus. 
Jeremiah Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. W. P. Bound), 
showed Cattleya xX Farquharsoniana, a handsome hybrid between C. 
bicolor and C. x Iris (bicolor X Dowiana aurea), having the size and shape 
of C. bicolor, but with the bright colouring of C. X Iris, the sepals and 
petals being light purple-brown, and the lip purple-crimson, with a narrow 
white margin. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, gained a Silver Flora 
Medal for a very fine and well-arranged group, containing as a central 
feature twenty-five handsome plants of Cattleya X Iris, showing remark- 
able variation in the colouring of the flowers, no two being alike. Other 
interesting things were Cattleya X Vulcan, C. X Germania, Brassocattleya 
heatonensis, B.-c. Madame Chas. Maron, Lzlio-cattleya illustris, L.-c. 
Aleyone, L.-c. Dominiana, Brassocatlelia elegans-Digbyana, Trichopilia 
Turialvze, Anguloa_ eburnea, Mormodes pardinum unicolor, various 
Cypripediums, Odontoglossums, and other plants. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged an exten 
gtoup, to which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. It contained some 
€xcellent forms of Lzlio-cattleya elegans, L.-c. bletchleyensis, L.-c. Ingrami 
Splendens, with its very fine dark maroon-purple lip, L.-c. callistoglossa, 
_ x Pittiana, C. X Lord Rothschild, a 
ozen orange flowers, 
Stanhopea Wardiil 
num, and various 
sive and handsome 
example of the rare Lelia monophylla with over a d 
Yenoches ventricosum with a raceme of six flowers, 
other. 
Bush Hill Park, Enfield, exhibited an 
urpurata Duckworthii, almost an 
veining of purple on the lip, 
C. xX St. Gilles, Cc. x Iris, C. 
m Hyeanum, C. 
Messrs. Hugh Low, & Co., 
¢G mo, the white flowers having only @ 
attleya Gaskelliana alba, C. X Minucia, 
