CCXXVi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Cypripedium x Reginaldianum (C. insigne $ x C. siamense) 

 and Laelia Dormaniana. 



Geo. Hardy, Esq., Pickering Lodge, Timperley (gr. Mr. W. 

 Holmes), sent spikes of good forms of Cattleya labiata, and of 

 a form of Laslia anceps near to L. a. Amesiana. 



Walter C. Clark, Esq., Orleans House, Sefton Park, Liver- 

 pool, sent flowers of Cypripedium x Harri-Leeanum (C. x 

 Leeanum $ x C. Harrisianum <?) and C. x Wallaertianum 

 aureum. 



Messrs. Linden, FHorticulture Internationale, Pare Leopold, 

 Brussels, placed before the Committee a coloured drawing of 

 their new Laelio- Cattleya x Cawenbergiana, which had some 

 resemblance to a L.-C. elegans, but with sepals and petals coloured 

 like Cattleya guttata Prinzii. 



Orchid Committee, November 28, 1893. 



Harry J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and nine members 

 present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Laelia anceps Amesiana (votes, unanimous), from Thomas 

 Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr. Mr. R. 

 Johnson). This beautiful variety, a near ally of L. a. Schroderae, 

 has white sepals and petals tinged with rose and heavily tipped 

 with crimson, the front and anterior parts of the side lobes being 

 of a dark maroon-crimson. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Calanthe x Victoria Regina (? C. x Veitchii x C. rosea) 

 (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. 

 This pretty hybrid, raised recently by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 

 is like a blush-white C. x Veitchii, no variation being seen in 

 the twenty plants shown. 



To Cypripedium x Mary Lee (C. x Leeanum $ x C. x Arthuri- 

 anum £) (votes, unanimous), shown by W. R. Lee, Esq., Beech 

 Lawn, Audenshaw, Manchester. The flowers resemble in most 

 particulars the seed-parent. The upper sepal was white, with a 



