ORCHID COMMITTEE, MARCH 26. 
Ixxix 
Award of Merit. 
To Dendrobium x Cordelia (D. aureum 5 x D. x euosmum 
leucopterum ) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. J.Veitch & Sons, 
Chelsea. This is a hybrid of the third generation, and as J). 
aureum has -been used in its progenitors, it is in form very close 
to that species. In colour cream-white, with russet-purple disc 
to the lip. 
To Odontoglossum luteo-purpureum amplissimum (votes, 
unanimous), from H. Weetman, Esq., The Hawthorns, Little 
Haywood, Staffs (gr. Mr. Bernard Dan). A large and heavily 
marked flower. 
To Cypripedium X Olenus (C. bellatulum $ x C. ciliolarec?) 
(votes, unanimous), from R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge 
Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman). Flowers suffused 
with rose, the petals dotted and the upper sepal striped with 
purple. (Fig. 18.) 
To Dendrobium X splendidissimum illustre (D. x Ainsworthii 
Leechianum ? x D.nobile nobilius ^ ) (votes, unanimous), from 
W. R. Lee, Esq., Beech Lawn, Audenshaw, Manchester (gr. 
Mr. Billington). A fine rose-tinted form of the splendidissimum 
type of D. X Ainsworthii. 
To Cattleya Trianee var. (votes, unanimous), from W. C. 
Parkes, Esq., Llanberis, Lower Tooting. 
To Dendrobium Donnesi^e (votes, unanimous), from J. 
Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr. Wiffen). A 
singular form of the nigro-hirsute section, which is supposed 
to be a natural hybrid between D. formosum and D. infundi- 
bulum. Flowers as large as D. formosum, and similar in 
colour ; in form like D. infundibulum ; in growth only a few 
inches high, the pseudo-bulbs thick from the base. 
To Dendrobium x Schneiderianum (D. Findlayanum $ x D. 
aureum c?) (votes, unanimous), from E. Ashworth, Esq., Hare- 
field Hall, Wilmslow, Cheshire (gr. Mr. H. Holbrook). 
Botanical Certificate. 
To Bulbophyllum grandiflorum (Blume's " Rumphia," iv. 
p. 42) (votes, unanimous), from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. W. H. AVhite). [The plant figured as 
B. grandiflorum in the Lindenia," iii. p. 27 (1887), is B. longi- 
sepalum, Rolfe.] 
