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FEOCLEDINGS. 



March 19, 1850. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. C. S. P. Hunter, Esq., Mortimer II ill, Berkshire ; 

 M. Louis Vilmorin, Qnai de la Megisserie, Paris ; J. 

 Spode, Esq., Armytage Park, near Rugeley ; Rev. J. L. 

 Petit, Uplands, Shifl'nal, Shropshire; William Somerville 

 Orr, Esq., Paternoster Row and Walthamstow ; Frederick 

 Crockford, Esq., St. James's Street and Harrow Weald ; 

 James Watney, Esq., Haling 1 Park, near Croydon ; David 

 Barclay Chapman, E-q., Roehampton ; and Mr. S. Maw, 

 Aldersgate Street, City. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal: To Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., 

 for a specimen of the long-tailed Ladies' Slipper (Cypri- 

 pedium caudatnm), an extraordinary looking species, which 

 has just flowered at Ealing Park for the first time in Eng- 

 land. As far as colour is concerned, the flowers have little 

 to recommend them, being, as near as possible, greenish 

 yellow ; their peculiarity consists in the petals being ex- 

 tended into two long brown narrow tails, which hang down 

 from either side of each blo-som, and keep on growing and 

 growing as the flower gets older, till it is (iifrieult to say 

 what length they may eventually reach. Those in the 

 specimen exhibited were nearly 18 inches long, and when 

 the flowers are elevated, as they should be, some 2 or 3 feet 

 above the foliage, these tails must give them a most re- 

 markable appearance. Dr. Lindley stated that the exist- 

 ence of tails was not uncommon among Orchids, and that 

 an unimpeded species of Uropedium named Lindenii, iu- 

 habiting New Grenada, near the Lake of Maracaybo, pos- 

 sessed these appendages even in a more remarkable degree 

 than this Cypripedium caudatum. The htter was obtained 

 from Peru by M. Linden, and may now be met with in one 

 or two collections in this country. 



Certificate of Merit : To Mr. Ivison, gardener to the Duchess 

 Dowager of Northumberland, F.H.S., for a flowering plant 

 of the halberd-lipped Odontoglossum (O. hastilabium). 

 Like the Ladies' Slipper mentioned above, this is not dis- 

 tinguished by brilliancy of colour ; but it is, nevertheless, 

 a pretty species. Tt had a fine spike of flowers on it, whose 

 sepals and petals were pale green, transversely marked with 

 brown dots or lines ; the lip was large, pure white, and 

 pale red at the base. Mr. Ivison stated that it comes from 

 New Granada. It had been in flower six weeks. To 

 Messrs. Henderson, Pine Apple Place, for a most beauti- 

 fully grown and flowered Acacia diffusa, a free blooming 



