246 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AuGuUST, 1908. 
Messrs. G. and A. Clark, Dover, exhibited a magnificent inflorescence 
of the Lizard Orchid, Orchis hircina, from a plant found near Dover at the 
end of the previous month. It was preserved in a stoppered glass jar of 
formalin solution, and both form and colour were well preserved. It 
attracted a large amount of attention. 
AT the meeting held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on July 21st, there was a distinct falling off in the Orchid 
exhibits, though a number of good things were shown, and the awards con- 
sisted of three Medals, one First-class Certificate, two Awards of Merit, one 
Cultural Commendation, and two Botanical Certificates. 
Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alex- 
ander), staged a group of magnificently-grown specimens, to which a Silver 
Flora Medal was given. It contained a very beautiful example of Cattleya 
Warscewiczii with fifteen flowers, C. W. Othello, a magnificent dark form 
having very small yellow blotches in the throat, C. W. Low’s var., bearing 
spikes of six and four flowers, and C. W. Frau Melanie Beyrodt, bearing 22 
of its beautiful white flowers with rosy-purple lip, the latter gaining a 
Cultural Commendation. There were also two fine C. X Hardyana and 
two of C. X Lord Rothschild, all having been raised in the collection, the 
handsome Sophrolelia leta Orpetiana, Brassocattleya Digbyano-Warsce- 
wiczii, a fine form of Dendrobium regium, Miltonia vexillaria superba, with 
twelve spikes and an aggregate of 53 of its beautiful flowers, also a fine light 
form of the species, two well-flowered Dendrochilum filiforme, and some 
good hybrid Odontoglossums. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
White), showed Lelia x Bella (majalis x purpurata), a handsome thing, 
having the sepals and petals rose-coloured, but paler at the base, with the 
front lobe of the lip and apex of the side lobes bright mauve-purple. An 
Award of Merit was given to Angrecum Augusti (Rolfe), a striking species 
sent from N. E. Rhodesia by Mr. Augustus Old, allied to A. Kotschyanum, 
and having somewhat similar white flowers, with the spur of the lip flexuose 
and about six inches long, but the fleshy leaves of a distinctly glaucous 
green. Botanical Certificates were given to Geodorum purpureum, an 
Indian species with erect scapes, drooping at the apex, and whitish flowers 
marked with purple on the lip, and to Epidendrum costatum, a rare Mexican 
species, with a drooping raceme of reddish-purple flowers. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), received 
an Award of Merit for Odontioda Thwaitesii (Cochlioda vulcanica X 
Odontoglossum Harryanum), a very pretty hybrid, bearing a spike of five 
flowers and buds, the sepals and petals being of a bronzy claret colour, and 
the lip lilac-purple with a yellow crest. 
