ORCHID COMMITTEE, AUGUST 11. 



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area at the base of the lip. This plant must not be confused 

 with Dendrobium Phalasnopsis, var. Statterianum. (See p. cxii.) 



To Cattleya Gaskelliana speciosa (votes, 5 for), from Messrs. 

 Seeger and Tropp, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. A distinct 

 form with white sepals and petals, and broad labellum, yellow 

 at the base, and rich purplish-crimson edged with white on the 

 front lobe. 



Botanical Certificate. 



To Odontoglossum Hennisii (Rolfe), (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth, & Co. This is a small 

 species with brown and yellow flowers, nearly allied to 0. 

 crinitum. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To C. J. Lucas, Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham, for a fine 

 plant of Angraecurn Ellisii with twenty-one flowers (votes, 

 unanimous). 



Other Exhibits. 



His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (gardener, 

 Mr. Owen Thomas), sent a group of Disa uniflora (grandiflora) 

 similar to those exhibited at the previous meeting. All were 

 splendidly grown ; the flowers very brilliant, and one spike had 

 eleven blooms. 



Thos. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester, ex- 

 hibited a fine form of Bollea ccelestis, Phajus Humblotii rube- 

 scens, and cut spikes of Lrelia elegans Turnerii and Cattleya 

 velutina. 



F. Wigan, Esq., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gardener, Mr. 

 W. H. Young), sent Lycaste tetragona and Dendrobium longi- 

 cornu. 



C. J. Lucas, Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham, staged Thrix- 

 spermum Berkeleyii, and a cut spike of Coelogyne pandurata. 



F. M. Burton, Esq., Highfield, Gainsborough, exhibited a 

 Cypripedium, a supposed cross between C. barbatum and C. 

 venustum, which, however, showed but little change from an 

 ordinary C. barbatum. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons again sent Cypripedium Cleola 

 (C. reticulatum x C. Schlimii albiflorum). 



