Cxi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Orchid Committee, August 17, 1915. 

 Sir Harry J. Veitch in the Chair, and seventeen members present. 

 Awards Recommended : — 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. J. 

 Davis), for rare Orchids. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth, Hay wards Heath, for a group. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for a group. 



First-class Certificate. 



To Odo7itoglossum x ' President Poincare ' (parentage unrecorded) 

 (votes unanimous), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq.. A very large flower 

 with remarkably broad segments, which are light purple, with distinct 

 pale lilac blotches at the tips. 



To Odontoma x Chart esworthii, Fowler's variety (M. vexillaria 

 X 0. Uro-Skinneri) (votes unanimous), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 

 Sepals and petals indicating the 0. Uro-Skinneri, and blotched with 

 dark red-brown. Lip arranged as in .V. vexillaria, deep rosy mauve 

 with some white mottling, and a ruby-red band round the yellow 

 crest. 



To Cattleya x Hardy ana ' His Majesty ' (Dowiana aurea x War- 

 scewiczii) (votes unanimous), from Messrs. Stuart Low, Jarvisbrook. 

 A very fine dark form with large claret-purple lip. 



Award of Merit. 



To Cattleya x 'Sybil ' rotundobella (Dowiana aurea x iridescens) 

 (votes unanimous), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. This form, compared 

 with the variety, ' Scintillant,' which gained a F.C.C. August 4, shows 

 the extreme variation in seedlings from the same batch, the former 

 variety having the narrow lip of C. bi color, one of the parents of 

 C. x iridescens, and the present variety the rounded labellum of 

 C. Eldorado, the other parent. Colour yellow with a rose shade, the 

 front of the lip light crimson, the throat orange. 



To Cattleya x Drapsiana vinosa (x 'Mrs. Pitt ' x Dowiana aurea) 

 (votes unanimous), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. Flowers dark 

 purple, with orange centre to the lip. 



Other Exhibits. 



Sir Herbert Leon : Cypripedium x 'Transvaal.' 

 C. J. Lucas, Esq. : Cypripedium x 'Warnham Fairy.' 

 Mrs. Bischoffsheim : Laeliocattleya x 'Rubens,' Warren House 

 variety. 



Messrs. Flory & Black : hybrids. 



Messrs. Hassall : forms of Cattleya x 'Sybil/ 



