ORCHID COMMITTEE, MAY 9. 



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To Cypripediurn x Chas. Rickman (votes, 11 for, 1 against), 

 from Chas. Rickman, Esq., Springfield, Trowbridge. The 

 parentage was stated to be C. bellatulum x C. barbatum var. 

 The flower resembled C. x Lawrebel Hyeanum. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, King's Eoad, Chelsea, exhibited 

 Dendrobium x Mentor (D. primulinum ? x D. superbum <?) 

 and Laelio-Cattleya x Hippolyta. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, staged a select group of 

 Orchids. 



Major-General Berkeley, Bitterne, Southampton, showed 

 Galeandra nivalis, Dendrobium sulcatum, D. hercoglossum, and 

 D. transparens album. 



T. B. Haywood, Esq., Woodhatch, Reigate (gr. Mr. Salter), 

 sent for name Epidendrum Schomburgkii. 



W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Staffordshire 

 (gr. Mr. W. Stevens), sent two fine spikes of distinct forms of 

 Odontoglossum triumphans. 



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

 T. W. Bond), showed Cypripediurn x striatum, stated to be 

 C. niveum ? x C. lasvigatum £ , but bearing no trace of the latter 

 species. It resembled C. x Tautzianum. 



Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, 

 sent varieties of Oncidium macranthum, 0. serratum, and a 

 curious little Odontoglossum from Peru. 



A. J. Hollington, Esq., Forty Hill, Enfield (gr. Mr. Ayling), 

 showed a good variety of Cypripediurn x Evenor (C. Argus $ 

 x C. bellatulum $). 



Stephen White, Esq., Oakwood, Crayford, Kent (gr. Mr. A. 

 Tomalin), sent for name a fine spike of Cyrtopodium Andersonii 

 cardiochilum. 



R. Brooman-White, Esq., Arddarroch, Garelochhead, Dum- 

 bartonshire (gr. Mr. Brown), sent a curiously striped form of 

 Cypripediurn concolor. 



