﻿October, 1904.] THE ORCHID REVIEW 307 



Madame Chas. Maron, Cattleya X Pittiana, Ljelia X Pacavia, Cypripedium 

 X H. Ballantine, &c. 



Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, also received a Silver Flora Medal 

 for a fine group, including both species and hybrids. Noteworthy among 

 them were four good plants of Phalfenopsis Esmeralda, bearing an aggregate 

 of a dozen racemes, the handsomely-fringed Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni, 

 Lycaste Schilleriana, Calanthe veratrifolia, Brassia verrucosa, some good 

 forms of Cypripedium insigne, C. X Memnon, some good forms of Lselio- 

 cattleya X callistoglossa, L.-c. X bletchleyensis, L.-c. X Henry Green- 

 wood, L.-c. X blesensis, and others. 



Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., Bush Hill Park, staged a brilliant group, 

 which received a Silver Banksian Medal. It contained a good form of 

 Odontoglossum crispum bearing a spike of twenty somewhat spotted flowers, 

 Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, C. Eldorado enfieldensis, two forms of C. 

 ■Grossii, one of which had a very large flower with spotted sepals and petals 

 and a rich rose-purple lip, Phalsenopsis Sanderiana, P. Esmeralda, P. 

 violacea Low's variety, having the lip wholly bright violet-purple, the rare 

 P. denticulata having yellowish white flowers barred with cinnamon-brown, 

 Dendrobium Phalaenopsis, and a pretty blush white form of the same, 

 Aerides Lobbii, Lselio-cattleya X Ingramii, &c. 



The Report of the Scientific Committee of the same date contains the fol- 

 lowing note respecting some Orchid leaves sent by Mr. Douglas, which 

 were supposed to be affected with some disease : — 



" Orchid leaves. — Dr. Cooke reported that the light-coloured spots on 

 ■Cypripedium leaf forwarded by Mr. Douglas were deficient in chlorophyll 

 and semi-translucent, but contained no trace of fungi." 



At the meeting held on September 20th there was a very fine display of 

 Orchids, medals being awarded to five of the groups exhibited, and the 

 other awards consisted of one First-class Certificate, five Awards of Merit, 

 .and two Cultural Commendations. Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum is an 

 interesting novelty, exhibited for the first time. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Dye), staged a very 

 interesting group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was awarded. It 

 ■contained a handsome form of Cattleya Dowiana, C. X Minerva, Laelio- 

 cattleya X Hermione, L.-c. X Bryan, Restrepia maculata, R. sanguinea, 

 R. aspasicensium, the remarkable Masdevallia muscosa, M. Wendlandiana, 

 M. Carderi, varieties of M. Chimaera, M. troglodytes, M. peristeria, M. 

 Wageneriana, M. macrura and var. maxima, several pretty hybrids of the 

 genus, four species of Scaphosepalum, &c. A Cultural Commendation 

 •was given to a finely grown plant of the remarkable Angrsecum infundi- 



