ORCHID COMMITTEE, APRIL 25. 



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Orchid Committee, April 25, 1893. 



Harry J. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and thirteen 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal. 

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

 W. H. White), for a select group of Orchids, among which were 

 a fine Cattleya Schroderae, with thirteen flowers ; a grand form 

 of C. Mendelii, with fifteen flowers ; a large Dendrobium 

 thyrsiflorum and D. revolutum ; the exceedingly rare yellow 

 Bulbophyllum Sillemianum, B. Lobbi siamense, Cypripedium x 

 Schroder^, C. villosum aureum, a large example of Masdevallia 

 Arminii, M. x Gelengiana (M. Estrada? xanthina $ x M. 

 Shuttleworthii g) f Sec. 



Silver Banhsian Medal. 

 To Messrs. F. Sander & Co. for a group of rare Orchids, in- 

 cluding Maxillaria Sanderiana, Cattleya x Burberryana, Zygo- 

 petalum Klabochorum, L:elia Digbyana, Cattleya Skinnerii 

 alba, &c. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Masdevallia x Gelengiana (votes, 7 for, 2 against), from 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. W. H. 

 White). 



To Masdevallia Arminii (votes, unanimous), from Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart. The plant exhibited bore about seventy rosy- 

 purple flowers with yellow tails. 



To Laelio-Cattleya x Ascania (Cattleya Trianrp $ x Lnelia 

 xanthina <?) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch Sc Sons, 

 Chelsea, S.W. The flowers were in form like those of C. labiata, 

 but smaller. Sepals sulphur-yellow ; petals white, tinged with 

 yellow ; lip yellowish white, with a broad crimson mark on the 

 front lobe (fig. 81). 



Award of Merit. 

 To Odontoglossum Roebelinianum (votes, 8 for, 2 against), 

 from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. A supposed natural 

 hybrid, with some resemblance to 0. Coradinei, but with shorter 



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