222 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA x ELEGANS VAR. TURNERI. 
This is one of the oldest varieties, and still unsurpassed for richness of 
colour, as a flower from the collection of J. Gurney Fowler, Glebelands, 
South Woodford, clearly shows. It may easily be distinguished by this 
character, combined with the distinctly obovate shape of the front lobe of 
the lip. For a complete account of the varieties of this beautiful hybrid we 
refer our readers to page 235 of our last volume, where they are treated 
in detail; also L.-c. x Schilleriana, some of the forms of which are often 
confused with L.-c. x elegans. 
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SEGHIDS: AL THE -ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
GENERALLY speaking the first meeting after the Temple Show shows a 
marked falling off in the number of exhibits, but this year furnishes a 
marked exception, as the exhibits at the: Drill Hall, James Street, West- 
minster, on June 12th, were above the average, and the work of the Orchid 
Committee was exceptionally heavy, nearly a hundred subjects, including 
the groups and the competitive class for new Orchids having to be adjudged. 
The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
W. H. White), contributed a very interesting collection, containing many 
interesting botanical species. Five of them were selected for Botanical 
Certificates, namely, Bulbophyllum barbigerum, the rare Promenza macrop- 
tera, the pretty little Polystachya Lawrenceana, P. bulbophylloides, whose 
specific name is eminently descriptive of its habit, and the pigmy Epiden- 
drum organense (Rolfe). A fine spike of Aérides maculosum Schreederi, also 
received a First-class Certificate. Other interesting plants were Dendro- 
bium Bensoniz album, a form of Odontoglossum x excellens labelled O. 
Pescatorei Prince of Orange, Octomeria diaphana, and others. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), showed 
three brilliant Odontoglossums. These were O. crispum Baroness Schréder, 
an unusually dark claret-purple form, O: c. grande-maculatum, a very fine 
spotted form, and a remarkable form of ©. x Coradinei, exhibited as O. 
crispum mirabile. The two former received First-class Certificates and the 
latter an Award of Merit. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. S. Cooke), con- 
tributed a very fine group, which received a Silver Flora Medal. It 
contained many fine forms of Odontoglossum crispum, Lelia purpurata, 
Cattleyas, &c. Two plants which were selected for special awards were 
Odontoglossum citrosmum Rosefield var., having large white flowers with 
rosy-coloured labellum, and O. crispum, Miss Florence Bovill, a rose-tinted 
form blotched with Indian red, each of which received an Award of Merit. 
O. c. pulvereum had flowers, covered with minute crimson dots. 
