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lilac-coloured flowers spotted with purple ; Polystachya Laurentii, a Congo 
species, bearing a panicle of cream white flowers; and Maxillaria 
phoenicanthera, like a small M. punctata, and having light yellow flowers 
spotted with purple. 
J. Foster Alcock, Esq., Northchurch, Berkhampstead, sent Cypripedium 
xX nobile, and two other good hybrids. ; 
H. H. Armitage, Esq., Sheffield (gr. Mr. Baker), sent a flower of a 
pretty light-coloured hybrid between Cattleya Dowiana aurea and C. X 
Victoria- Regina. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), sent a fine 
specimen of Cattleya labiata Amesiana with a spike of four flowers, and 
- Lelio-cattleya Clive, Keswick var. 
W. P. Horton, Esq., Cravenhurst, Seaford, staged a small group of 
Cypripediums, the best being a fine form of C. Cobbiz. 
G. P. Walker, Esq., Heatherwood, Putney (gr. Mr. McGregor), showed 
Lelio-cattleya Heatherwood (L.-c. Schilleriana x C. granulosa aurea), 
having cream white flowers with a bright purple lip. 
Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Hopkins), sent 
Cattleya labiata Her Majesty, a fine pure white flower, with a faint tinge 
of pink in front of the yellow disc of the lip, and C. Gaskelliana Delight, 
a good white with a deep rose blotch on the front lobe of the lip, and the 
disc light yellow. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a choice group 
to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained the beautiful white 
Vanda ccerulea Charlesworthii, Cattleya x Vulcain marginata, having deep 
rose-purple flowers, with a white margin to the lip, the beautiful C. x 
Venus, Cycnoches maculatum with two long pendulous racemes of male 
flowers, the brilliant Sophrolelia Eros, Lelio-cattleya Phoebus (L.-c. 
Cappei x C. x Iris), a brilliant flower, having golden yellow sepals and 
petals, and a deep crimson lip, the beautiful Odontioda Bohnhoffe, 
Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes Charlesworthii, and numerous other 
fine things. 
Messrs. James Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, also received a Silver Flora 
Medal for a fine group, the centre containing many good examples of 
Dendrobium Phalznopsis, including the dark variety Statterianum and two 
nearly white forms with Cattleya labiata, C. x Mantinil, &c. Cypripediums 
were well represented, and included several C. insigne Sander, C. 1. 
Harefield Hall var., C. Fairrieanum, and others. 
Mr. H. A. Tracy, Orchid Nurseries, Twickenham, also received a Silver 
Flora Medal for a fine group, including some good varieties of Odonto- 
glossum X amabile, and O. crispum, some good Oncidium varicosum and 
Cattleya labiata, a pretty hybrid Cattleya from C. xX Parthenia and C. 
