372 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
At the meeting held at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on 
October 24th, there was a very good display of Orchids, including some 
interesting species and hybrids. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, Woodford, Essex, exhibited a large 
and showy group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. It contained 
a number of well-grown and flowered forms of Cattleya labiata, a fine C. 
Schilleriana, C. bicolor, forms of C. Bowringiana, and Calanthe vestita. 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
staged a fine group, which received a Silver Banksian Medal. The most 
remarkable plant was Oncidium ornithorhynchum album, with seventeen 
panicles, to which both a First-class Certificate and a Cultural Commenda- 
tion was awarded. Pleurothallis lepanthiformis, Masdevallia attennata and 
M. Laucheana each received a Botanical Certificate. Other plants were 
Odontoglossum Insleayi splendens, a fine Lelia tenebrosa, some good . 
Cattleya labiata, C. bicolor, Pleurothallis plumosa, with many spikes, and 
a number of Cypripediums. Among the latter were C.. x Arthurianum, 
with nine flowers, C. x Mrs. Canham, with eleven, some pretty varieties 
of C. x Bellona, C. purpuratum, and C, insigne, Cambridge Lodge variety. 
M. Jules Hye-Leysen, Coupure, Gand, sent several fine things, including 
Miltonia x Bleuana rosea, which received a First-class Certificate. Itisa 
very handsome variety, with delicate blush-white flowers, the basal halves 
of the petals having some rose-purple colouring and the disc of the lip 
radiating purple lines. The other plants were Miltonia vexillaria Leopoldi 
and the handsome Cypripedium x Albertianum. 
J. F. Alcock, Esq., Northchurch, Berkhampsted, sent Cattleya bicolor, 
Brassia Lanceana, Lycaste cruenta, Pleione Reichenbachiana, Selenipedium 
Schlimii, and Odontoglossum grande, with abnormal flowers. 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells (gr. Mr. Howe), showed 
Odontoglossum Xx aspersum fulvidum, a handsome, buff-coloured form 
approaching O. x Humeanum. 
F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Safford), showed 
Cypripedium insigne Hardyanum, a beautiful clear yellow form. 
C. J. Lucas, Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham (gr. Mr. Duncan), showed 
Cattleya elongata (Alexandre) and Odontoglossum Wallisii. 
S. G. Lutwyche, Esq., Eden Park, Beckenham, sent Miltonia Regnelli 
purpurea, and a hybrid Cypripedium, like a very light C. x Ashburtoniz. 
T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr. Mr. Johnson), 
sent Cattleya x Johnsoniana, C. x Dowiana splendens, Cypripedium 
_Charlesworthii conchiferum, C. x Moensii, and C. x amabile. 
