Juty, 1909.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 2t3 
Mr. F. McBean, Plumpton, Sussex, sent a nice little group, including a 
few good Cattleya Mendelii, C. Mossi and Odontoglossum crispum, with a 
form of O. X Adriane. 
M. Mertens, Mont-St.-Amand, Ghent, sent a good Vanda ccerulea, with 
an unnamed Leeliocattleya and several unnamed Odontoglossums. 
Mr. H. A. Tracy, Twickenham, sent some good examples of Cattleya 
Mossiz, Odontoglossum X eximium Tracy’s var.,a fine form with dark 
violet blotches, and Oncidium Batemanianum. 
AT the meeting held on June 22nd the Orchid exhibits were fewer in 
number than for a long time past, only seven exhibitors being represented, 
and the awards consisted of three medals only. Three plants were entered 
to go before the Committee, but none of them secured an award. 
J. G. Bergheim, Esq., Belsize Court, Hampstead (gr. Mr. Page), sent a 
species of Megaclinium from Tropical Africa, which proves to be M. triste, 
Rolfe, a species described some few years ago (Kew Bull., 1894, p. 362). 
The flowers are dull blackish purple, and are borne on a stout rachis with 
rounded angles. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), sent 
Odontoglossum X Black Prince, a showy hybrid having a white ground 
colour, very densely blotched with dark claret-red. 
G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), sent 
Odontoglossum crispum Trianz majesticum, a very fine form, with flowers 
of excellent shape and substance. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, staged a fine and 
varied group, which received a Silver Flora Medal, the more noteworthy 
plants including some fine forms of Cattleya Mendelii and C. Warscewiczii, 
a splendidly-flowered Oncidium Wentworthianum, O. macranthum, O. 
varicosum Rogersii, O. Lanceanum, a fine plant of Epidendrum 
prismatocarpum, Odontoglossum hastilabium, Masdevallia calura, M. 
erythrochete, Bulbophyllum Lobbii, Lzlias, Cypripediums, and several 
other good things. 
Mr. A. W. Jensen, Lindfield, Haywards Heath, staged a small group of 
interesting things, which gained a Silver Banksian Medal. It included 
some excellent forms of Cattleya Mendelii and Warscewiczii, C. Mossiz 
Arnoldiana aurea, a pretty blush white form, and a fine form of Odonto- 
glossum crispum with a very broad lip. 
Messrs. Stanley & Co., Southgate, also received a Silver Banksian Medal 
for a good group of Cattleya Mossiz, including a very beautiful C. M. 
Reineckeana and some fine coloured forms of the species, showing much 
variation in the colour of the lip, C. Gaskelliana pallida, Lelia purpurata 
Russelliana, and a few other good things. 
