28 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Wood, and from Mr. Wm. Brooks, Whitecross Nurseries, Weston-super- 
Mare, all of which agree in the characters above-named, so that it is 
evidently not a mere casual variation, and deserves a distinguishing name 
as above proposed. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE display of Orchids at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on 
November 23rd, was again a very good one, and included several interesting 
novelties. : 
The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Birmingham 
(gr. Mr. Smith), sent a small group of fine things, to which a Silver Banksian 
Medal was given. It included a well-grown example of Leelio-cattleya X 
Clive, L.-c. x Gottoiana, L.-c. x albanensis, L.-c. xX Vedastii var. 
corbeillensis, a form of L.-c. x Tiresias called Ophelia, and Cattleya xX 
Miss Williams. 
Baron Sir Henry Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), 
received an Award of Merit for Odontoglossum Dayanum, a species allied 
to O. prestans, having cream-white flowers spotted with cinnamon-brown, 
and said to have been named by Reichenbach. 
W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., West Hill, Hessle, near Hull (gr. Mr. Baker), 
received an Award of Merit for Cattleya labiata White Queen, a beautiful 
white variety with a faint trace of pink on the lip. 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
showed Cypripedium x Saron (C. niveum X (?) venustum Measuresianum), 
a hybrid with white flowers tinged with emerald green and densely spotted 
with purple, and the rare Cirrhopetalum refractum, in which the flowers are 
borne ina raceme. A Botanical Certificate was awarded to the latter. 
The Hon. P. Allsopp, Battenhall Mount, Worcester (gr. Mr. Fox), sent 
a good plant of a peculiar form of Cypripedium insigne, in which the spots 
of the dorsal sepal were absent. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., Waddon House, Croydon (gr. Mr. Harris), showed 
a good Cattleya labiata and C. 1. rosea, the latter with brilliantly-coloured 
W. H. Lumsden, Esq., Balmedie, Aberdeen (gr. Mr. Roberts), sent 
some good forms of Cypripedium insigne, including one with clear yellow 
Captain Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. Chapman), sent cut 
