OECHID COMMITTEE, .lANrAllY 10. 
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ORCHID COMMITTEE. 
January 10, 1899. 
Harry J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and sixteen members present. 
Awards Recommended :— 
Silver Flora Medal. 
To Messrs. Jas. Veitch, Chelsea, for rare hybrid Orchids. 
Silver Banhsian Medal. 
To Messrs. Williams, HoUoway, for Cypripediums, &c. 
First-class Certificate. 
To Angraecum x Veitchii [sesquipodale $ eburnenm (superbum) c?] 
U'otes, unanimous), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch. A very remarkable hybrid 
with thick, ascending, green leaves, and stout inflorescence of three flowers 
and a bud. Flowers as large as those of A. sesquipedale ; spur shorter, 
and, like the sepals, greenish ; petals and lip ivory-white. The first garden 
hybrid of the genus. (Fig. 24.) 
Award of Merit. 
To Epicattleya x ' Mrs. James O'Brien ' (E. O'Brienianum cT C. 
Bowringiana ? ) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch. Pseudo- 
bulbs, stouter than E. O'Brienianum, and clad with thick alternate 
Fig. 25. — Epicattleya x ' Mrs. James O'Brien.' (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 
leaves. Inflorescence on nine-inch scape, clad with leafy bracts on the 
lower half. Plowers about two inches across, of a warm rose-purple. 
(Fig. 25.) 
To Cypripedium x Schofieldianum superbum (bellatulum x ?) 
{votes, unanimous), from Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam 
(gr. Mr. Wm. Murray). No record of parentage was definitely given, 
