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bearing thirteen flowers on a stem about three feet high. The flowers 
are borne singly on short axillary scapes, and are green with a broadly 
dilated white lip and a short inflated spur. He also sent plants of the 
chaste Dendrobium Phalenopsis album, and D. P. Gatton Park var., with 
lilac coloured flowers marked with slaty blue on the lip. 
J. Foster Alcock, Esq., Exhims, Northchurch, sent Cypripedium xX 
Wiertzianum Exhims var. | 
A Thwaites, Esq., Christchurch Road, Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), 
sent several good forms of Cattleya x Adula, C. X Roupelliana (superba 
x Hardyana), a fine and very richly coloured novelty, bearing a deep rose- 
purple flower, with some darker colour in the throat, and Sophrolelia 
Ortoni (S. grandiflora x L. x Diana), a pretty scarlet flower with a yellow 
throat to the lip. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a very fine group, 
to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained a fine series of 
Cattleya x Iris, showing much variation in colour, C. Gaskelliana alba, a 
fine form of C, X Venus, C. x St. Gothard, a brilliant series of Sophronitis 
hybrids, including Sophrocattleya eximia, Sophrolezlia heatonensis, S.-l. 
Gratrixiz, Sophrocatlelia Leda, and the richly coloured S.-c.-l. Marathon, 
Oncidium ornithorrhynchum album, Epidendrum ciliare, Maxillaria 
grandiflora, two well-bloomed plants of M. Meleagris, Gomesa planifolia, &c. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, received a Silver 
Flora Medal for a fine group, including some good plants of the bright 
yellow Oncidium oblongatum, O. Marshallianum, QO. unicorne, Cecelia 
macrostachya, Cycnoches maculatum and chlorochilon, Angraecum 
distichum, Cattleya Haroldiana var. Hildegard, a beautiful white flower 
with some violet marbling on the front of the lip, Brassocattleya Pocahontas 
alba, Lzlia pumila delicata, Sophrocatlelia Danze, a good plant of 
Physosiphon Loddigesii, the pretty little Waluewa pulchella, Sigmatostalix 
radicans, Cirrhopetalum refractum, and other interesting things. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, also received a Silver Flora Medal 
for a fine group, which contained a remarkable example of Cycnoches 
stelliferum (C. Egertonianum var. viride), bearing a long male inflorescenc 
and two short female inflorescences on the same pseudobulb, some fine 
examples of Cattleya X Iris, C. x Pittianay C. xX Wendlandiana, Lelio. 
cattleya Phoenix (C. Dowiana x L.-c. Henry Greenwood), a beautiful hybrid 
having light buff sepals and petals tinged with rose, and a claret-purple lip 
with some deep yellow in the throat, L.-c. carissima (C. Harrisoniana x 
L.-c. Charlesworthii), L.-c. Lucinda (C. bicolor X L. purpurata), L.-c. 
Nysa, bletchleyensis, Ella, and Baroness Schréder, the pretty little Sigma- 
tostalix radicans, Polystachya leonensis, Rhynchostylis retusa, and other 
good things. 
