ORCHID COMMITTEE, AUGUST 11. 



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Orchid Committee, August 11, 1896. 



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



present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Bronze Banksian Medal. 

 To R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Flodden Road, 

 Camberwell (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman), for a group of Orchids, in 

 which the genus Masdevallia was well represented. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Cattleya x Hardyana splendens (votes, unanimous), from 

 Baron Schroder, The Dell, Staines (gr. Mr. H. Ballantine). 

 This is a fine variety, the large labellum resembling that 

 of a good C. Dowiana, and the sepals and petals that of C. 

 Warscewiczii. Its scent was also very fine. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Cypripedium x Excelsior Mars (C. x Harrisianum x C. 

 Rothschildianum) (votes, 7 for, 6 against), from Messrs. F. 

 Sander & Co., St. Albans. A pretty hybrid of the C. x Massaianum 

 class, but with more distinct chocolate spotting than in others 

 of its class. 



To Laslio-Cattleya x elegans Cawenbergiana (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. 

 Mr. W. H. Young). A large rose-tinted variety in which the 

 base and the greater part of the side lobes of the lip are 

 white. 



To Laelio- Cattleya x Seraph (L.-C. x elegans? x C. 

 citrinatf) (votes, unanimous). A singular hybrid having short 

 cylindrical pseudo-bulbs, much swollen in the middle and rather 

 erect and stiff foliage. The inflorescence is ascending, and the 

 general form of the flower as in L.-C. x elegans, but smaller in 

 size. The sepals and petals were yellow ; lip rose-crimson in 

 front and white at the base. 



Botanical Certificate. 



To Masdevallia anchorifera, from R. I. Measures, Esq., Cam- 

 bridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman). 

 Other Exhibits. 



Baron Schroder (gr. Mr. H. Ballantine) showed Laelio- 



