ORCHID COMMITTEE, AUGUST 4. 



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Botanical Certificate. 



To Epidendrum costatum, from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. A 

 Mexican species growing like a strong Barkeria, producing a nodding 

 raceme of about fifteen reddish flowers with acuminate yellow tips to the 

 sepals and petals ; lip whitish, ridged, marked with purple. 



To Geodorum purpureum, from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O. 

 Phaius-like in growth. Inflorescence erect, bearing at the top a decurved 

 head of white flowers marked with purple on the lip. 



Other Exhibits. 



W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., Hessle, Hull (gr. Mr. Barker) : Cattleya 

 Warscewiczii, Rochford's variety. 



Mr. J. Birchenall, Alderley Edge : three varieties of Bollea Lalindei. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch : the fine white Cattleya x Dusseldorfei 1 Undine.' 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O. : Laelia x 1 Bella ' (majalis 

 x purpurata). 



The Right Hon. Lord Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. A. Dye) : 

 Stanhopea inodora with ten flowers on a spike. 



Orchid Committee, August 4, 1908. 

 Mr. H. J. Veitch in the Chair, and nine members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for a group. 



To Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, for a group of 

 Cypripediums, &c. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Mons. Mertens, Ghent, for Odontoglossums and Miltonias. 



First-class Certificate. 

 To Sophro-Cattleya x warnhamensis var. ' J. M. Black ' (C. amethysto- 

 glossa x S. grandiflora) (votes, unanimous), from R. G. Thwaites, Esq., 

 Streatham (gr. Mr. Black). Sepals and petals deep crimson with a 

 claret shade ; disc of the lip yellow, the tips of the side lobes and front 

 lobe ruby red. (Fig. 62.) 



Award of Merit. 



To Vanda x amoena var. Sanderae (natural hybrid V. coerulea 

 x V. Boxburghii) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Sander. A much 

 finer flower than the original and probably the reverse cross, the seed 

 being borne by V. coerulea. Flowers formed like V. coerulea, cream- white, 

 broadly netted with violet ; lip claret colour. 



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Botanical Certificate. 

 To Angraecum Whytei, from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., 

 Burford (gr. Mr. W. H. White). Allied to Angraecum (Listrostachys) 

 Chaillianum. Flowers white, with pointed brown-tinted spurs. Native 

 of Uganda. 



