$2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JUNE, 1909. 
_the rare South African Lissochilus parviflorus, Pleurothallis astrophora, 
the rare Masdevallia melanoxantha, M. ephippium, M. cucullata, two little 
gems in M. triaristella and M. O’Brieniana, Bulbophyllum barbigerum, a 
good B. Lobbii, Epidiacrium Colmaniz (B. nodosa x D. bicornutum), &c. 
An Award of Merit was given to Cattleya Mossiz Gatton Park var., a very 
richly-coloured form, of excellent shape and with exceptionally broad petals, 
and Botanical Certificates to Gongora quinquenervis and the rare Bulbo- 
phyllum lemniscatoides, whose history was given at page 46. 
His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock (gr. 
Mr. Hunter), was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal and £5 offered to 
amateurs for the best group of Orchids not exceeding 75 square feet. A well 
arranged bank of showy plants was staged, including many good Miltonia 
_ vexillaria and Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, with a good selection of Lelia 
purpurata, L. tenebrosa, a fine Odontoglossum Xx Rolfez, and numerous 
other Odontoglossums, a fine example of Chysis bractescens, Cattleya 
citrina, some good C. Mossiz, Leliocattleya Schilleriana, and other fine 
things. 
Mrs. Kershaw Wood, Moorfield, Glossop (gr. Mr. Gould), obtained the 
second prize (a small Silver Cup) for a group of well-grown plants, the 
centre of which was a fine Cymbidium Lowianum with ten spikes. It also 
included some good Cattleya Mossiz, Oncidium sarcodes, Miltonia X 
Bleuana, a fine Phaius Wallichii, Brassia verrucosa, Phalznopsis 
Schilleriana, Dendrobium atroviolaceum, Ada aurantiaca, Lieliocattleya 
highburiensis, Lelia X Latona and tenebrosa, a fine example of Odonto- 
glossum X excellens, bearing a panicle with ten side branches and a large 
number of buds, but the majority still unexpanded, O. X Adriane with 
four good spikes, O. Othello and numerous other good Odontoglossums. — 
A Silver Cup was awarded by the Council for Orchids and Gloxinias. 
Richard Ashworth, Esq,, Newchurch, Manchester (gr. Mr. Fletcher), 
was awarded a Silver Flora Medal as the second prize for a group not 
exceeding 35 square feet (the first prize of a Silver Cup not being awarded). 
The central object was a remarkably fine and well-flowered specimen of 
Dendrcbium Victoria-Regina, grown in a ten inch pan, and bearing 
numerous pseudobulbs, some over a foot long, a Cultural Commendation 
being deservedly awarded. There were also three good plants of Odonto- 
glossum crispum Black Prince, with very dark spots, O. c. xanthotes, O. c. 
heliotropium, and other good forms, the handsome O. luteopurpureum 
Vuylstekeanum, triumphans, x Adriane, Pescatorei, Cattleya citrina, C. 
Warneri, Bulbophyllum Lobbii, Oncidium cucullatum, Cypripedium 
bellatulum, &c. 
Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunnersbury Park, Acton (gr. Mr. 
Reynolds), showed a remarkably fine group of Vanda teres, about 80 square 
