VI PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE. 

 Dr. Denny in the Chair. 



The duties of the Committee were by no means light on this 

 occasion, for very numerous collections of plants were staged. 

 From Messrs. Yeitch and Sons, Chelsea, came an excellent 

 collection of new and rare Orchids and other plants, which in- 

 cluded the following : — Miltonia Morelliana superba, with large 

 flowers, sepals and petals deep purple, labellum light purple with 

 darker veins — very pretty ; a specimen of Ccelogyne Massangeana 

 bearing a large spike of very pale yellow flowers, the labellum 

 being marked with dark streaks inside ; Oncidium ornithorhynchum 

 album, bearing a slender branching spike of small white flowers, 

 with a yellow crest in the centre of the labellum ; Oncidium 

 dasytyle, a curious little species with small flowers, labellum 

 yellowish with a d^rk protuberance near the base, and the 

 sepals spotted with chocolate. A first-class certificate was 

 awarded. A peculiar Orchid, Mormodes Ocana?, flowers borne in 

 spikes, thickly spotted with reddish brown ; and Lilium auratum 

 rubrum vittatum, a variety with crimson purple streaks down the 

 perianth divisions. Pachystoma Thompsoni, an attractive Orchid ; 

 sepals and petals white, narrow; labellum with narrow recurved 

 portion of a purple lake colour ; flowers in pairs on slender 

 peduncles. A first-class certificate was awarded for this and the 

 following Cypripedium Spioerianum, flowers small, petals and 

 labellum of a greenish colour, the posterior sepal white marked 

 with purple ; a pretty and distinct species. This group was not 

 very large, but of great interest. 



Mr. S. B. Williams, Upper Holloway, obtained a silver Banksian 

 medal for a large and most interesting group of plants, compris- 

 ing numerous excellent Orchids, Crotons, Nepenthes, &c, the 

 front line being formed of the extremely attractive little Orchid 

 Pleione lagenaria in 48-pots, each plant bearing about eight 

 flowers. Some of the most noteworthy Orchids were the follow- 

 ing:— Yanda ccerulea had two large spikes of pale bluish white 

 flowers; Dendrobium superbiens was bearing a large spike of 

 bright purple lake flowers with twisted sepals ; the showy 

 Odontoglossum grande, with six large flowers ; Dendrobium 

 bigibbum, a lovely Australian species with neat little bright 



