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basal portion, the remainder purple, and the lip most resembling that of the 
seed parent. The peduncle has also the long hairs of this species. C. x 
Eurydice is one of the most beautiful hybrids raised in recent years. Its 
parents are C. x Leeanum superbum @ and C. hirsutissimum f. Its growth 
is robust ; the dorsal sepal is most like that of the mother, but more beau- 
tiful, and the rest of the flower about intermediate in form and colour. C. 
x Zampa and C. x Erato are two other beautiful hybrids now in flower, 
which were described at page 118 of your last volume. M. Vuylsteke has 
also two beautiful Odontoglossums, introduced from Columbia, which 
appear to be natural hybrids, one is much like O. x Wilckeanum, and has 
a perfume of hyacinths, the other is dark and smells like Ccelogyne cristata. 
The January meeting at Ghent had to be abandoned on account of the 
cold, but that of the Orchidéene of Brussels was one of the most brilliant 
yet held by that Society. Eleven First-class Diplomas of Honour were 
awarded, as follows :—To Maxillaria Lindenie, Cypripedium x Madouxi- 
anum, Epidendrum Wallisii var., and Cattleya hybrid unnamed (Mossie x 
Percivaliana), from Messrs. Linden; Cattleya amethystoglossa var. Tre- 
yerani, and Cattleya hybrid unnamed (gigas x Trianz), from M. Treyeran ; 
Cypripedium x Denisianum, from M. Madoux; C. hybrid unnamed, from 
M. G. Warocqué; C. x Paulii, from M. G. Miteau; Odontoglossum sp., 
from M. Dallemagne; and O. Wambekeanum, from M. Van Wambeke. 
Other exhibits were numerous and many of them extremely good. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
By JOHN WEATHERS. 
Ow1na, no doubt, to the unseasonably mild weather, there was a splendid 
display of Orchids at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting at the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, on January 16th. 
A Silver Banksian Medal was awarded to the President, Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart. (gr. Mr. W. H. White), for a group of rare plants. An 
Award of Merit was given to Dendrobium x Hebe (D. Findlayanum 7x D, 
x Ainsworthii 2), a white-blush variety with a pale primrose lip, and 
derived from the same parents as the totally distinct D. x Dido—a form 
with rose-purple segments and a deep maroon blotch in the white rose- 
tipped lip. A Botanical Certificate was awarded to the deep browa-red 
Mormodes Rolfeanum, and also to Epidendrum polybulbon, a species with 
brown and yellow segments and a white lip. Fine specimens of Coelogyne 
graminifolia and Cypripedium x Calypso, Oakwood variety, were also 
shown. 
