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ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



H. J. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and eight members 



present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Cypripedium Antigone x (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Son, King's Eoad, Chelsea. This fine 

 hybrid was obtained by crossing C. niveum and C. Lawrence- 

 anum. The lip is creamy white, tinted with purple in front ; 

 petals also white with a rose-coloured hue ; the dorsal sepal 

 broad ; white with green lines at the base, and suffused with 

 a rosy-purple tint. 



Award of Merit. 



To Odontoglossum Duvivierianuni (votes, 3 for, 1 against), 

 from M. Linden, l'Horticulture Internationale, Pare Leopold, 

 Brussels. It is stated to be a natural hybrid between 0. cor- 

 datum and 0. nebulosum, and may be likened to a pale yellow 

 variety of the former ; but the whiter ground of the flower and 

 the different form of the lip betray traces of 0. nebulosum. 



To Cypripedium Doris (C. venustum x Stonei) (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Wylam-on-Tyne. The 

 plant exhibited resembled a fine form of C. venustum pardinum, 

 but its flower was larger in all its parts, and especially the 

 petals, which are broad towards the tips and slightly curved 

 downwards. 



To Cypripedium Cleola x (C. Boissierianum x C. Schlimii 

 albiflorum) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Son. 

 Both parents are of the Selenipedium section, and consequently 

 C. Cleola has much of the habit of plant and flower as in the 

 well-known C. Sedeni x . Its flowers are very neat and nearly 

 white. 



To Cypripedium Eyermanianum x (C. Spicerianum x C. 

 barbatum grandiflorum) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. F. 

 Sander & Co., St. Albans. It is a fine form, with white dorsal 

 sepal, bearing traces in the green lines at the base of C. bar- 

 batum. The lip has the form and also the reddish hue of that 

 species. The petals green, tinged with brown. 



To Cypripedium Muriel Hollington x (votes, 4 for), from 



