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purple lines and dots. Petals brownish rose, with blackish 

 purple spots. Lip shining dark-red brown. 



To Masdevallia x Ajax (M. x Chelsoni x M. Peristeria) 

 (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 

 Flowers yellow with purple brown tails and numerous purple 

 papilla? on the surface. Lip purple. 



To Odontoglossum aspidorhinum (votes, 7 for, 2 against), 

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

 W. H. White). A species with graceful racemes of rather small 

 yellow and brown flowers with comparatively large panduriform 

 white lips blotched with purple. Allied to 0. Sanderiannm and 

 0. constrictum. 



Botanical Certificate. 

 To Dendrobium curviflorum (votes, unanimous), from Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking. A species with 

 compressed growths and curiously boat-shaped white flowers, 

 with a yellow blotch on the lip. 



Other Exhibits. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., also exhibited Maxillaria 

 Hiibschii ; Masdevallia infracta purpurea (a pretty plant bearing 

 twenty flowers) ; Dendrobium revolutum, the flowers of which 

 had been open more than three months ; and Cypripedium x 

 Chas. Steinmetz (C. philippinense x C. Lawrenceanum). 



"Walter C. Clark, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, exhibited 

 Cypripedium x Mabellias (C. superbiens x C. Rothschildianum). 



Major Mason, The Firs, Warwick, sent a flower of Cymbidium 

 Parishii. 



Walter Cobb, Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells (gr. Mr. 

 Howes), exhibited his large deep rose-coloured form of Miltonia 

 vexillaria. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, exhibited Cypripedium 

 x Brysa (C. Boissierianum x C. x Sedeni candidulum). 



Messrs. Lewis & Co., Southgate, N., sent Cattleya granulosa 

 Schofieldiana. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, exhibited Cypripedium 

 x A. de Lairesse, C. x Patersoni, C. x A. R. Smith, C. x 

 Massaianum, C. x Lord Derby, Calanthe x Laucheana, Acro- 

 pera luteola, Aganisia ionoptera, Pholidota obovata, &c. 



