Clxxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Cheshire (gr. Mr. Holbrook), for a fine collection of cut spikes of 

 Cattleya Warscewiczii, C. Rex, and C. Mendelii. 



First Class Certificate. 



To Epihelia x radico-purpurata (Epidendrum radicans $ 

 Laelia purpurata $ ) (votes, 8 for, 3 against), from Messrs. Jas. 

 Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. A most remarkable hybrid, showing 

 the peculiarity of having the habit of growth and other features 

 of the pollen parent, as previously remarked in instances where 

 Epidendrum radicans has been the male. The inflorescence 

 bore three flowers, two abnormal and one perfect. Sepals 

 lanceolate, petals ovate acute, both of a light orange-scarlet ; 

 lip broadly ovate, obscurely three-lobed, yellow at the base, outer 

 portion light reddish-purple. Fig. 79. 



Award of Merit, 



To Cattleya Warscewiczii ' Mrs. E. Ashworth ' (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Elijah Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, 

 Cheshire. A very distinct and pretty variety, with blush- white 

 flowers, showing no other colour than a yellow tinge at the base 

 of the lip, and a minute rose-purple blotch at its apex. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons showed a small group of hybrid 

 Orchids, among which were Phalaanopsis x 1 Hebe ' (Sanderiana x 

 rosea), Lselio-Cattleya x 4 Clonia,' Cattleya x ' Atlanta,' and 

 Sobralia x Veitchii. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, showed specimens of 

 Cattleya "Warscewiczii, C. Gaskelliana ' Sunray,' Bulbophyllum 

 species, and hybrid Cypripediums. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, showed Angraecum 

 Eichlerianum, Milton i a vexillaria rubella melanocentra, Vanda 

 Hookeriana, and Masdevallia Gargantua. 



Frau Ida Brandt, Riesbach, Zurich (gr. Mr. Schlecht), sent 

 an interesting collection of Orchids. 



J. H. Kitson, Esq., Elmet Hall, Leeds (gr. Mr. Bonsall), 

 showed Cypripedium leucochilum. 



Major Joicey, Sunningdale Park, Sunningdale (gr. Mr. Fred J. 

 Thorne), showed varieties of Odontoglossum Schlieperianum and 

 0. aspidorhinum. 



J. F. Ebner, Esq., Beckenham (gr. Mr. A. Waite), sent 

 Cypripedium x Chapmanii (bellatulum x Curtisii). 



