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Messrs. Sander staged a selection of Laelio-Cattleyas. 

 Messrs. Jas. Veitch showed several good Lauio-Cattleyas. 

 Messrs. Wm. Bull sent five plants of Cattleya x Atalanta. 



Okchid Committee, September 12, 1905. 

 Mr. Gurney Fowler in the Chair, and eighteen members present. 



Awards Recommended: 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Sander & Sons for a collection of Ladio-Cattleyas, &c* 

 .To Messrs. Stanley, Southgate, for a group. 



First-class Certificate. . 



To Cattleya x Kienstiana 1 Oakwood variety ' (Dowiana aurea x 

 Liiddemanniana) (votes, unanimous), from Norman C. Cookson, Esq., 

 Oakwood, Wylam (gr. Mr. Chapman). Flowers large, sepals and petals 

 dark rose ; lip crimson, with yellow lines radiating from the base to the 

 centre. 



Award of Merit. 



To Cypripediinn x villoso-Bothschildianum (villosum x Bothschil- 

 dianum) (votes, 9 for, 2 against), from Norman C. Cookson, Esq. 

 Flowers produced like C. Bothschildianum, but more nearly resembling 

 C. villosum. Upper sepal and petals yellow, with dark purple lines. Lip 

 yellow, tinged red. 



To Cattleya Iris viagnifica (bicolor x Dowiana aurea) (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Major G. L. Holford, Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander). 

 Flowers bronzy yellow, with a fine crimson-purple lip. (Fig. 56.) 



To Stanhopea connata (votes, unanimous), from Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart. (gr. Mr. W. H. White). A large orange-coloured species with 

 purple blotches on the globose, fleshy hypochil of the lip, and lower 

 halves of the petal. 



To Cycnoches peruvianum (votes, unanimous), from Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart. The plant bore a pendulous raceme of male flowers 

 each 2 inches across ; green, spotted with purple, and with a much-divided 

 white labellum. 



To Cattleya x Iris inversa (Dowiana aurea x bicolor) (votes, 9 for, 

 3 against), from Messrs. Sander, St. Albans. Plant dwarf. Flowers 

 large ; sepals and petals reddish-brown, with golden margin ; lip purplish- 

 crimson. 



Botanical Certificate. 



To Calanthe japonica, from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. Habit of 

 C. veratrifolia, but smaller. Flowers white, with a red callus on the lip 

 of one of the specimens, and a yellow on the other plant. 



To Brassavola cucullata, from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. The fine 

 old white species with elongated labellum, which was the type on which 

 the genus was founded in 1813. Syn. B. cuspidata. 



