CCiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Chiswick, July 11, 1893. 

 Harry J. VEiTCH,'Esq., in the Chair, and four members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Award of Merit. 



To Cypripedium x Massaianum (C. x superciliare ? x 

 C. Rothschildianum $) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. F. 

 Sander & Co., St. Albans. The leaves were marbled with dark 

 green on a light green ground. Scape stout, and covered with 

 dark purple hairs ; bract striped as in C. Rothschildianum. 

 Flowers large, the upper sepal whitish, with numerous dark 

 purple lines ; the broad, deflected, ciliolate petals white, tinged 

 with green on the veining, and evenly spotted with dark purplish 

 crimson ; lip faced with dull rose. 



To Cypripedium Stonei var. Cannaertianum (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Thos. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, near 

 Manchester (gr. Mr. R. Johnson). Next to C. S. platytaenium 

 this is the most showy form of C. Stonei. The large dorsal 

 sepal was white, with the rich crimson of the outer surface 

 showing through ; the broad petals yellowish, with a single line 

 of dark crimson spots up the middle, the middle of the extreme 

 halves being brownish crimson. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. F. Sander k Co. showed Brassia sp., Aerides Picoti- 

 anum, Cypripedium x Youngianum, C. x Umlauftianum(C. insigne 

 Chantinii $ x C. Lawrenceanum c?) ; two plants of Rodriguezia 

 pubescens, each with about twenty spikes ; Cattleya Gaskelliana, 

 Cooke's var., almost entirely rose colour ; Lrelio-Cattleya x Schil- 

 leriana ; four plants of Trichocentrum tigrinum, with dissimilar 

 flowers ; the fine Epidendrum vitellinum auratum, Sobralia xan- 

 tholeuca, Renanthera matutina, Cattleya granulosa var., &c. 



Messrs. Hugh Low k Co., Clapton, N.E., staged a group of 

 Orchids, among which were the pure white Stanhopea Amesiana, 

 Aerides I'Ansonii, Cattleya Eldorado splendens, C. E. alba, some 

 fine C. labiata Gaskelliana, Oncidium Lanceanum, Rhyncostylis 



