OIICHID C03B1ITTEE, OCTOBER 23. 
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Orchid Coivimittee, October 23. 
Harry J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members present. 
Awards Recommended:— 
Silver Flora Medal. 
To Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. 
W. H. Yomig), for a group of Orchids. 
Silver Banhsian Medal. 
To R. I. Measures, Esq., Camberwell (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman), for a 
collection of hybrid Cypripediums. 
To Messrs. Hugh Low, for a group of Cattleya labiata, &c. 
First-class Certificate. 
To Sophro-Laelio-Cattleya x Veitchii var. ' Eros ' (Liielio- Cattleya x 
elegans Turneri x Sophronitis grandiflora) (votes, unanimous), from 
Messrs. Charlesworth, Heaton, Bradford. A fine hybrid with dark scarlet 
flowers and yellow base to the lip. 
Award of Merit. 
To Odontoglossum crispum ' Maud Rochford ' (votes, unanimous), 
from Mr. T. Rochford, Turnford Hall, Broxbourne. Flowers approaching 
0. X Adriancie. White with the inner halves of the segments blotched 
with chocolate purple. 
To Dendrobium x Leeanum atropurpureum (votes, 10 for, 4 against), 
from Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart. (gr. Mr. W. H. Young). Flowers dark 
rose with rose-purple lip. 
To Cypripedium x ' Vidor ' (' Chas. Canham ' x Harrisianum super- 
bum) (votes, unanimous), from R. 1. Measures, Esq. (gr. Mr. H. J. 
Chapman). Flowers large ; upper sepal broad, closely lined with dark 
purple, margin white with greenish tinge inside ; petals and labellum 
light purple. (Fig. 202.) 
Botanical Certificate. 
To Dendrobium Moorei, from Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart. (gr. Mr. 
W. H. Young). A small species from Lord Howe's Island. Flowers in 
short ascending spikes, white. 
Cultural Comme7idation. 
To Messrs. Jas. Veitch for a grand plant of Cattleya Bowringiana 
' Veitch's ' variety, with three spikes of twenty, twenty-seven, and thirty 
flowers respectively. 
Other Exhibits. 
Sir Jas. Miller, Bart., Manderston, Duns (gr. Mr. J. Hamilton), showed 
Lselio-Cattleya x (L. Dayana x C. bicolor) and Cattleya x (Gaskelliana 
X maxima). 
Leopold de Rothschild, Esq. (gr. Mr. J. Hudson), showed flowers of a 
fine Lslia Perrinii. 
M. Jules Hye-Leysen, Ghent (gr. Mr. Coen), sent a flower of 
