Cxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, sent Odonto- 

 glossum polyxanthum and other Odontoglossums. 



T. P. W. Butt, Esq., Arle Court, Cheltenham (gr. Mr. G. W. 

 Marsh), showed a very fine branched spike of Oncidium Mar- 

 shallianum. 



Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, N., staged 

 Odontoglossum citrosmum Owenianum, with rose-coloured 

 flowers, the petals edged with white, and Odontoglossum tri- 

 umph an s atratum. 



Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, showed Masdevallia x 

 caudato-Estradas and M. x Parlatoreana (M. Barlasana $ x 

 M. Veitchiana ' $ ), the latter being almost as handsome as M. 

 Veitchiana, and interesting on account of its having been 

 imported in the first place by Messrs. Veitch as a natural 

 hybrid, and afterwards verified by home-raised seedlings. 



TEMPLE SHOW. 

 Orchid Committee, May 23, 1894. 



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



present. 



Awards Recommended : — 



First Class Certificate. 



To Cypripedium callosum var. Sanderae (votes, unanimous), 

 from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. This beautiful 

 variety is to C. callosum what C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum is 

 to C. Lawrenceanum. Its beautiful flowers are white and 

 emerald green (fig. 15). 



To Odontoglossum crispum excelsius (votes, unanimous), 

 from Baron Schroder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. H. Ballan- 

 tine). A fine flower, with a slight trace of 0. Wilckeanum. 

 White, heavily blotched on the sepals, and marked with a 

 large number of smaller spots on the petals. 



To Odontoglossum crispum Wolstenholmiae (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Baron Schroder. Flowers large ; white, tinged 

 with purple, and with a large cluster of brown blotches in the 

 centre of each segment. 



