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ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Habry J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and ten members 

 present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. (gardener, Mr. White), 

 for a pan of several plants of the beautiful Habenaria militaria 

 in bloom. The plants bore dense heads of soft cinnabar-scarlet 

 flowers. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Cattleya aurea Statteriana (votes, unanimous), sent by 

 Thomas Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester 

 (gardener, Mr. R. Johnson). A beautiful form with almost wholly 

 bright yellow flowers, the only other colour being a marbling of 

 rose on the edge of the lip and a few reddish lines in the throat. 



Aivard of Merit. 

 To LaBlia elegans, Stand variety (votes, unanimous), from 

 T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gardener, 

 Mr. Johnson). This is a form near to L. e. prasiata, but with 

 sepals and petals not exhibiting so much green colour, and a 

 broader and richer crimson lip. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To T. Statter, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Johnson), for a large 

 specimen of Dendrobium aquenm, Lindl. (D. album, Wight). 

 A fine old species with pure white flowers, each over an inch 

 across. 



To T. A. Gledstanes, Esq., Gunnersbury (gardener, Mr. 

 H. Denison), for a well-grown plant of Dendrobium formosum 

 with many flowers. 



To Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, for a fine specimen 

 of Miltonia Candida superba with several spikes of bloom. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Seeger & Tropp, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, sent 

 a plant of Camaridium ochroleucum (Bot. Reg. x., t. 844). It had 

 one pretty white flower with yellow base to the lip. The genus 

 is very near to Ornithidium. 



