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Cattleya Rubens, the pretty Odontoglossum 
Blackii (Pescatorei x Rossii), and Sophro- 
Cattleya Thwaitesii (C. Mendelii x S. grandi- 
flora). A well-coloured Odontioda Charles- 
worthii was also noticed. 
Messrs. Stuart Low ajid Co., Bush Hill 
Park, Enfield, received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a good group of showy orchids, 
which included several good varieties of 
Cattleya Fabia and a selection of Dendro- 
bium Phalaenopsis Schroderianum. A strong 
plant of Liparis longipes with twenty flower 
spikes, a nice variety of Cattleya labiata with 
white sepals and petals, and several other 
interesting plants made up an effective group. 
M. Firmin Lambeau, Brussels, sent Catt- 
leya Maggie Raphael Lambeau's variety, a 
flower with a light tint of mauve colour on 
the sepals and petals, and a deep crimson 
coloured lip. Cattleya Drapsiana (Mrs. Pitt 
X aurea) was also sent. 
Messrs. J. and A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, 
received a Silver Banksian Medal for a group 
composed of Cypripedium insigne Sanderas. 
The plants were well grown and carried an 
abundance of flowers. 
AWARDS. 
First-class Certificates. 
Cypripedium Minotaur (Euryades x Minnie), 
from Lieut.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, 
K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander). 
For description and photograph of this excel- 
lent new Cypripedium see page 74. 
Cypripedium Charlesworthii Temeraire, 
from Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans. 
A wonderful variety. The dorsal sepal is 
more tlian three inches in height and nearly 
four inches in width. It is the finest variety 
of this beautiful species yet seen, and is 
particularly well coloured. 
Vanda coerulea Sanderas, from Messrs. 
Sander and Sons, St. Albans. A very pretty 
and rare variety, in which the colour is 
magenta-pink instead of the usual bluish tint. 
The labellum is of deep magenta. 
Awards of Merit. 
Cypripedium lolanthe (Euryades x insigne 
Sanderas), from Messrs. James Veitch and 
Sons. A well-formed flower with a broad 
dorsal sepal, which is white spotted with 
purple ; yellow at the margin. 
Cattleya lucida (Bowringiana x Schilleriana), 
from Samuel Larkin, Esq., Ridgeways, Hasle- 
mere (gr. Mr. Hale). This plant carried 
several spikes, each having about twelve 
flowcL's. The flowers are rosy-purple, with 
a white margin on the lip. 
Sophro-Laslio-Cattleya Althaea (C. Perci- 
valiana x S.-L.-Gratrixias), from H. S. Good- 
son, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day). 
See " New Plants." 
Cultural Commendation 
to Mr. Spowage (gr. to Col. Cary Batten, 
Abbots Leigh, Clifton) for a plant of Onci- 
dium tigxinum, with fifty-tliree good flowers 
on a single spike. 
December 6th. 
Members of the Orchid Committee present : 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the chair), and 
Messrs. James O'Brien (hon. sec), H. Little, 
W. Thompson, F. J. Hanbury, A. A. McBean, 
C. H. Curtis, W. Cobb, J. Charlesworth, 
J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, W. P. Bound, 
H. G. Alexander, A. Dye, W. H. White, 
Gurney Wilson, J. Wilson Potter, W. Bolton, 
C. Cookson, C. J. Lucas, H. Ballantine, Harry 
J. Veitch, and Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Blen- 
heim, Woodstock (gr. Mr. Hunter), showed 
Cypripedium Troilus var. Lord Nelson and 
C. Lord Ivor (insigne Harefield Hall x Hera). 
Lieut.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., 
Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander), sent a 
few fine orchids, the best being a wonderful 
variety of Vanda coerulea named Bluebeard 
(see Awards), Cypripedium nitens Leeanum 
var. aureum, C. Draco (insigne x Hera), and 
Laslio-Cattleya Arethusa with a spike of nine 
flowers. 
W. H. St. Quintin, Esq., Scampston Hall, 
Yorks., sent several interesting Laelio-Catt- 
leya hybrids, including L.-C. Garnet (La 
France x Bowringiana), and three others 
described under " New Plants." 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park 
(gr. Mr. Collier), staged a group of beautiful 
species, which included the pure white 
Coelogyne Mooreana, a distinct variety of 
