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the same tint as the petals. The throat of the labellum is 

 citron-yellow, the median area pure white, with a streak of 

 bright crimson in the middle. The plant was much admired 

 by connoisseurs. Also from the collection of Messrs. Jas. 

 Veitch & Son came a very neat and pretty Masdevallia. 

 raised between M. caudata (Shuttlewortlrii) and M. Estrada? 

 (M. caudata- Estradae X). The flowers are mauve, with whitish 

 nervines and yellow tails. From the gardens of Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., M.P., came a very interesting group, prominent 

 among which were the rare Acineta maculata. with two fine pen- 

 dulous sprays of French-white flowers mottled with rose ; the 

 rare yellow-flowered Dendrobium signatum, and the fine old 

 D. tortile roseum ; the singular Fonthieva maculata, and a 

 splendid form of the yellow and red Odontoglossum excellens 

 named " chrysomelanmn . ' ' 



From C. J. Partington, Esq., Heaton House, Cheshunt, was 

 sent a brilliant group of scarlet and mauve varieties of Masde- 

 vallia Harry ana, and a noble specimen of the white Moth 

 Orchid (Phalamopsis grandiflora). 



Messrs. Heath & Son, of Cheltenham, sent a curious form of 

 Odontoglossum citrosmum, with buff sepals and petals ; Mr. 

 G. T. White, Drayton Villa, "Wmchinore Hill, a group of the 

 elegant Brassia caudata ; Messrs. John Laing & Son, of Forest 

 Hill, a small plant of a nearly white variety of Cattleya 

 Schroderae ; and Mr. Wm. Hall, of Tulse Hill, staged a very 

 fine lot of cut flowers of La?lia purpurata and Cattleya s. Mr. 

 Wm. Gordon, nurseryman, Twickenham, sent a very singular 

 and pretty Japanese Calanthe. named C. Tracyana, with white 

 flowers delicately tinged with pale bluish-lilac. B. J. Measures, 

 Esq., of Camberwell, staged the rare Cypripedium Mastersianum 

 and the hybrid C. Carrieri ; and F. W. Moore, Esq., Curator 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, exhibited the very 

 rare and curious Saccolabium cerinum. F. G. Tautz, Esq., of 

 Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush, also sent two very fine 

 species of Odontoglossum. 



Awards Recommended :— 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Lrelia Digbyana-Mossiae, from Messrs. Jas. Veitch & 

 Bon, Chelsea. 



