EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Sir Tbevob Lawrence, Bart., M.P., in the Chair, and six 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



First Class Certificate. 



To Epiclendrum falcatum (votes, unanimous — H. J. Veitch, 

 Esq., in the Chair), from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. 

 This is the original form of the species, and may be botanically 

 different from the form known as E. Parkinsonianum, with which 

 it is often considered synonymous. The flowers of the plant 

 exhibited were over two inches across, pure white, flushed with 

 rose at the backs of the sepals. 



To Oncidium chrysorhapis (votes, unanimous — H. J. Veitch, 

 Esq., in the Chair), also" from Sir Trevor Lawrence. Its flowers 

 were numerous, on spikes two feet in height ; yellow, with brown 

 lines and bars on the sepals. The general form of the flowers, 

 and especially of the side lobes of the labellum, is like 0. 

 cornigerum. 



Award of Merit. 



To Grammatophyllum multiflorum (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. This is an old but rare 

 species, and the plant exhibited had a spike of over seventy 

 greenish flowers blotched with brown. 



To Masdevallia Kolfeana (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. F. 

 Sander & Co. A definite idea of this may be formed by calling 

 to mind a dwarf M. Beichenbachiana with the colouring of M. 

 calura, both of which species grow together, and M. Bolfeana 

 might be a cross between the two. The tubular part of the 

 two lower sepals and the free parts of all three is of a rich 

 maroon tint ; the portion of the upper sepal combined in the 

 tubular or concave portion of the flower being yellow, and the 

 tail-like continuations of all the sepals also bright yellow. The 

 whole flower has much of the appearance of M. Schroderiana, 

 especially in the widely extended tails of the lower sepals, which 

 constitute a distinct feature from the closely arranged parallel 

 ones of M. calura. 



