ORCHID COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 15. 
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Aioard of Merit. 
To Sobralia Lindenii (votes, unanimous), from C. J. Lucas, 
Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham (gr. Mr. Duncan). A species 
having smaller flowers than those of S. macrantha ; blush white 
with purple markings in the lip. 
To Laelio-Cattleya x Gottoiana rosea (votes, unanimous), 
from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. A supposed natural 
hybrid of Laslia tenebrosa and Cattleya labiata. Flowers as in 
L. tenebrosa, but wholly of a clear rose colour. 
To Cattleya labiata, Thompson's var. (votes, unanimous), 
from W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Staffordshire 
(gr. Mr. W. Stevens). A noble and richly coloured form. 
To Cattleya labiata cserulea (votes, unanimous), from W. 
Thompson, Esq. (gr. Mr. W. Stevens). A distinct form with 
lavender-coloured petals and slate-blue lip. 
To Cypripedium Charlesworthii marginatum (votes, 8 for, 
5 against), from W. Thompson, Esq. (gr. Mr. W. Stevens). A 
pretty variety with white dorsal sepal, having the base rose and 
bearing within the white margin a rose-coloured band. 
To Cattleya labiata Lowse (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. 
Hugh Low & Co., Clapton. A pretty white variety with purple 
lip. 
To Cattleya x Mantinii (C. Bowringiana ? x C. Dowiana ^ ) 
(votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Son, Chelsea. 
Two varieties were shown, the one much darker in colour than 
the other. Its flowers resembled large Cattleya Skinnerii, but 
bore a yellow tinge over the rich rose colour of its petals and 
labellum. (Fig. 84.) 
To Miltonia x Cobbiana (votes, unanimous), from Walter 
Cobb, Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells (gr. Mr. J. Howes). One 
of the numerous supposed natural hybrids which commenced with 
M. Lamarckiana, Beich. /., to which this bears a resemblance. 
To Cypripedium x Alfred Hollington (C. ciliolare $ x C. 
philippinense ) (votes, unanimous), from A. J. Hollington, Esq., 
Forty Hill, Enfield (gr. Mr. Ayling). A noble variety of C. x 
selligerum class. 
C liltural Commendation. 
To W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Staffordshire 
(gr. Mr. W. Stevens), for a fine plant of Vanda Kimballiana with 
seven spikes, grown in an Odontoglossum house. 
