lxxxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



First-class Certificate. 

 To Cypripedium x Beekmanii (parentage uncertain, votes unanimous), 

 from R. Briggs-Bury, Esq., Accrington (gr. Mr. Wilkinson). A massive 

 flower, dorsal sepal emerald-green with white margin and many chocolate- 

 purple spots. Petals and lip yellowish, marked and tinged with purple. 

 (Fig. 119.) 



Fig. 119.— Cypripepium x Beekmanii. (Journal of Horticulture.) 



[T ' Award of Merit. 



To Cymhidium x Ballianium (eburneum x Mastcrsii) |( votes, unani- 

 mous), from Captain Holford, C.I.E., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander). 

 Flowers as large^as those of C. eburneum, but with more on a spike, as in 

 C. Mastersii ; white with yellow crest to the lip. The spike of the plant 

 shown had four flowers. 



To Cymhidium Wilsoni (votes, 11 tor, 2 against), from^Messrs. Jas. 

 Veitch, Chelsea. A remarkable plant, in habit like a pigmy C. gigantum, 

 but with flowers as large as that species and closely allied to it ; the 

 scape, however, is more slender and the labellum less downy ; S9pals and 



