184 THE ORCHID REVIEW, 
The Gold Medal offered by M. Henri Vanderlinden was unanimously 
awarded to M. Alfred Van Imschoot. His collection included about three 
hundred different species, and presented a great botanical value, as it gave 
an excellent idea of the great variety of form and colour in this immense 
family. Some of them deserve mention because of the excellent condition 
of some of the flowers which had long been expanded, as Dendrobium 
nobile, Ccelogyne cristata, a very remarkable variety cf Cattleya Triane, 
and Maxillaria luteo-alba. As forms of transcendent merit we may note the 
superb example of Brassia Keiliana, with thirty racemes; a weil-coloured 
Miltonia vexillaria, Mormodes luxatum eburneum with a splendid raceme of 
flowers which were spotted inside with dark purple; Lycaste fulvescens 
with thirty flowers ; the beautiful Cattleya Schilleriana; the very curious 
Lelia Dayana; the very rare Epidendrum pseudo-Epidendrum; a very fine 
Odontoglossum polyxanthum; the rare Trichopilia marginata; a charm- 
ing Odontoglossum ramosissimum ; and the very rare Trichopilia Wageneri. 
Some species were of botanical interest, as Bulbophyllum platyrhachis, of 
unparalleled singularity ; Ornithidium Sophronitis, and Hartwegia purpurea. 
M. A. Peeters, of Brussels, carried off the prize for twenty-five species 
and varieties of cool Orchids; the gold medal given by M. D. Massange de 
Louvrex for twenty flowering Orchids; and the first prize for twelve large 
specimens of Orchids in flower. We restrict ourselves to citing the most 
remarkable among these beautiful species and varieties. These are: Mil- 
tonia x Bleuana, the splendid acquisition obtained by M. Bleu, of Paris, 
from M. vexillaria fertilised with the pollen of M. Roezlii, which fortunate 
cross yielded the marvellous Orchid which renders him a just tribute of 
homage. Among the Odontoglossums we may mention the beautiful O x 
Andersonianum sulphureum and superbum; O x Ruckeri purpureum, 
whose general colour is a beautiful rosy purple ; superb inflorescences of O. 
Hallii; a beautiful Masdevallia Veitchiana grandiflora with at least thirty 
flowers and buds; magnificent plants of Epidendrum Wallisii and E. 
Frederici-Guilielmi; a well-flowered Oncidium macranthum carrying forty 
flowers and buds; Cattleya Mossize and C. M. Reineckiana, and the rare 
Pescatorea Klabochorum. 
M. Florent Pauwels, of Antwerp, obtained a legitimate success with 
many beautiful and varied Orchids, comprising some large and _ strong 
plants, and other smaller, rarer, and more valuable ones. Among the most 
deserving of our attention we may note: Oncidium ampliatum majus, Mil- 
tonia vexillaria, Dendrobium Dalhousieanum, Odontoglossum Hallii with 
five racemes ; Selenipedium caudatum with ten flowers; a large and beauti- 
ful Ansellia africana ; magnificent Vanda i insignis, V. tricolor, V. suavis, and 
V. s. Rollissoni; enormous plants of Cypripedium villosum aureum, C. 
Boxallii, and C. x nitens ; Dendrobium macrochilum with five racemes, &c. 
In a pretty collection of Cypripediums from the same zealous amateur 
