lxXXU PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Orchid Committee, March 9, 1897. 



Sydney Courtauld, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Messrs. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, for a very fine group of 

 Orchids, remarkable in which were Epidendrum Endresii, and 

 the hybrids with it ; E. x Endresio-Wallisii, and E. x elegantu- 

 lum ; Cattleya x Miranda (C. guttata Prinzii x C. Trianae), 

 and C. x intertexta (C. Mossia? x C. Warnerii). 



To C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming (gr. 

 Mr. T. W. Bond), for a group of well-grown specimens of Den- 

 drobium x splendidissimum grandiflorum. 



Silver Banhsian Medal. 

 To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 

 W. H. White), for a fine and interesting group of Orchids, in 

 which were grand examples of some of the smaller Masde- 

 vallias, &c. 



To Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, for a very good 

 group of Orchids, containing several excellent forms of Lycaste 

 Skinnerii. 



To Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, for a group of Den- 

 drobium crassinode and other Orchids. 



First Class Certificate. 



To Bulbophyllum Ericssonii (Kranzlin) (votes, unanimous), 

 from the Honble. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. E. 

 Hill). A very fine species, with large heads of yellowish flowers, 

 spotted with purple, and not inaptly likened by the author of the 

 species to Masdevallia chimasra. 



To Cymbidium eburneum (votes, unanimous), from the 

 Right Honble. Earl Brownlow, Ashridge, Gt. Berkhamstead, 

 Herts (gr. Mr. R. B. Lowe). 



Award of Merit. 

 To Masdevallia x Pourbaixii (M. Veitchii x M. caudata 

 Shuttleworthii) (votes, unanimous), from Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. W. H. White). This, although 



