ORCHID COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 8. 



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To Cattleya granulosa var. Dijanceana (votes, unanimous), 

 from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. This is the only 

 discovery of the ill-fated collector Dijance, who lost his life in 

 Brazil. The plant is very dwarf, being about one-third the size 

 of typical C. granulosa. The flowers have green, unspotted 

 sepals and petals ; the side lobes of the lip are pure white, the 

 middle verrucose lobe being a narrow, spathulate, rose-coloured 

 blade. The column is yellow, tipped with purple. 



Cultural Commendation. 



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

 finely flowered plant of the pure white Angraecum articulatum 

 (votes, unanimous). 



Other Exhibits. 



Thos. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefleld, Manchester 

 (gardener, Mr. R. Johnson), again exhibited Laelia elegans 

 Blenheimensis (A.M., Sept. 8) ; also L. e. Stand Hall var., and 

 L. e. atrorubens, both of the Turneri section. Odontoglossum 

 Harryanum, Cochlioda vulcanica, and Saccolabium Blumei 

 were also exhibited. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co. staged a small group of Orchids, 

 among them being Cattleya crocata rosea, Lselia elegans 

 Robinsoniana, a dwarf, richly coloured form of the Turneri 

 section; also L. e. Turneri, L. e. T. Marlboroughensis, and 

 Vanda ccerulea. 



Drewett 0. Drewett, Esq., Riding-Mill-on-Tyne (gardener, 

 Mr. A. J. Keeling), sent flowers of Cypripedium Beatrice x (C. 

 Lowii X C. Boxalli), and C. Eyermanianum x Drewett's var. 

 (C. barbatum nigrum x C. Spicerianum). 



Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth, & Co., of Heaton, 

 Bradford, sent fine plants of Oncidium macranthum, some of 

 which bore large flowers on spikes only a few inches in height. 

 The Committee desired to see the plants again in order to test 

 whether the desirable short flower- spikes proved constant. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, exhibited a fine specimen 

 of Vanda Kimballiana and a plant of Cattleya Gaskelliana 

 albens ; flowers white, with a crimson staining on the front of 

 the lip. 



