ORCHID COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 15. CCxix 



Botanical Certificate. 



To Catasetum laminatum, from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebe- 

 lands, South Woodford (gr. Mr. J. Davis). The plant bore two many- 

 flowered spikes, the flowers being pale green with a thin cream-white 

 keel up the middle of the labellum. 



Other Exhibits. 



Major G. L. Holford, C.V.O., CLE. (gr. Mr. Alexander) : new hybrid 

 Orchids. 



J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (gr. Mr. Davis) : Cattleya x 1 Prince Edward,' 

 with seven flowers on a spike, and Cymbidium ery thro sty lum. 

 Messrs. Sander : a group. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch : a very fine Cattleya x Davisii (yelutina x 

 Hardy ana). 



C. J. Lucas, Esq. (gr. Mr. Duncan) : Cattleya x Iris ' Warnham 

 Court variety.' 



Francis Wellesley, Esq. (gr. Mr. Hopkins) : Laelio- Cattleya x 'Lady 

 Leese ' (L.-C. x callistoglossa x L. xanthina). 



Orchid Committee, October 15, 1907. 

 Mr. Harry J. Veitch in the Chair, and twenty-two members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunnersbury House, Acton 

 (gr. Mr. J. Hudson), for a group of Cattleya labiata, Vanda coerulea and 

 other showy Orchids. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth : for a group. 



To Messrs. Jas. Veitch : for hybrid Orchids. 



To Messrs. Sander : for a group of Cattleya labiata and hybrids. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam (gr. Mr. Chapman), 

 for hybrid Cypripediums, Cattleyas. 

 To Messrs. Hugh Low, for a group. 



To Messrs. McBean, Cooksbridge, for a collection of varieties of 

 Cattleya Dowiana aurea, hybrid Cypripediums, and Odontoglossums. 

 To Messrs. Moore, Rawdon, Leeds, for a group. 

 To Messrs. Stanley, Southgate, for Cattleya labiata. 



First-class Certificate. 

 Arachnanthe Rohaniana (Benanthera Bokaniana Rchb. f., Xenia t 

 vol. i. p. 89) (votes, unanimous), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebe- 

 lands, South Woodford (gr. Mr. J. Davis). Plant in its broad leaves and 

 erect habit differing considerably from the curved-leafed Arachnanthe 

 Lowii, to which, however, in its flowers it bears a general resemblance, 

 the chief differences being in the structural arrangement of the lip and 



