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small, and has only produced a two-flowered raceme. The dorsal sepal 
is over I} inches broad, and prettily spotted inside with rose-pink on a 
light blush ground, and light pink outside. The lateral sepals are 
1} inches long by 14 inches broad, and bright rose-pink in colour. The 
petals and lip closely resemble D. x kewensis in character, but the column 
is rather more like D. X Veitchii, of which flowers are also sent, together 
with two inflorescences of the deep rose-coloured D. racemosa. 
+ 
THE LINDLEY MEDAL. 
THE resuscitation of this forgotten trophy at the recent Temple Show, and 
the comments thereon at page 162, induced us to look up the history of 
the question, and the following extracts (Gard. Chron., 1865, p. 1205), 
showing the circumstances under which it was inaugurated, will probably 
be read with interest :-— 
“Royal Horticultural, December rgth.—W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., in 
the chair. . . . The Chairman, adverting to a magnificent group of 
Lycaste Skinneri and other winter flowering plants shown at this meeting 
by Mr. Veitch, stated that the Council, in order to indicate the high 
appreciation in which such displays are held by it, had resolved to have a 
new medal prepared, to be awarded at the Tuesday meetings only, to 
exhibitions similar to that furnished on this occasion by Mr. Veitch. This 
is to be the second in value to the Gold Banksian, and is to be called the 
Lindley Medal, in honour of one who had done so much for the Society, 
and whose loss it now had to lament. 
‘Mr. Veitch’s valuable collection of plants above alluded to consisted 
of no fewer than 53 well-bloomed specimens of Lycaste Skinneri, no two of 
which were exactly alike, showing in an eminent degree the great liability 
to variation which exists in this species of Orchid. Associated with them 
were the Barkeri Skinneri and its darker coloured variety called 
atropurpurea, the Australian Dendrobium Tattonianum,”’ &c. (the rest not 
being Orchids). 
CATASETUM TRIFIDUM 92. 
IT is interesting to note that the plant of Catasetum trifidum at Glasnevin 
has again produced three female flowers. Last year it produced an 
inflorescence of each sex, the female having three, and the male twenty 
flowers, as recorded at vol. x., p- 199. In 1rgor, Mr. Moore remarks, male 
flowers alone were produced. As before, the whole flower is heavily marked 
with dark purple brown, and it may be added that the males were unusually 
dark. There is considerable variation in colour, for in some cases the 
