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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE AWARDS, <&c. 



Beh.beb.is Darwinii, var. — J. Anderson Henry, Esq., Edinburgh, March 4. — This is an 

 alpine form of B, Darwinii, foundiby Dr. Jameson on the western side of Pichineha at an 

 elevation of 12,000 feet. The general appearance was the same as that of the form usually 

 cultivated, hut the yellow flowers, which grew in short, nodding racemes, were smaller, lesd 

 expanded, and less richly coloured. It seemed to he an inferior variety. 



Camellias. — Mr. W. Paul, Walthani Cross : Special Certificate, March 4. — A collection 

 of cut blooms of twenty-seven varieties, the principal of which were : — Eximia, Imbricata, 

 Elatior, Princesse Bacchiochi, all imbricated-flowered crimsons or reds ; Conspicua, a very 

 showy semi-double ; Donkelaari, Elegans, Triumphant, Double Striped, all open-flowered 

 crimsons or reds; Eimbriata, Double White, whites; Ochroleuca, creamy white; Lady 

 Hume's Blush, blush ; Feastii, imbricated rose; Aidica, deep flesh colour; Tricolor, deep 

 flesh colour with crimson stripes ; Eclipse, Colvillii striata, General Lafayette, Marguerite 

 Guillon, white with red stripes. 



Cattleya ametiiystoglossa. — B. "Warner, Esq., Chelmsford: First-class Certificate, 

 March 4. — A beautiful Orchid with tall, somewhat clavate stems, bearing a pair of leaves at 

 the top. From between these leaves issues a short spike of charmingly-coloured moderate- 

 sized, fleshy-looking flowers, of which the broad blunt sepals and petals are suffused with 

 rose and decorated with numerous conspicuous spots of violet rose, and the lip is corrugated, 

 papillose on the ridges, with the broad rounded middle lobe entirely deep violet rose, and the 

 spreading tips of the lateral lobes of the same rich and effective colour. 



Cattleya Warscewiczii, var. delicata. — E. McMorland, Esq., Hampstead Eoad, 

 February 18. — A very fine variety of Cattleya, imported from Brazil by Messrs. Backhouse, 

 under the name of C. Triana}i=C. Warscewiczii. It is one of the monophyllous forms, with 

 the habit and character of C. labiata. The flowers are large, well formed ; the sepals and 

 petals white, the former lance-shaped, the latter very broad with a frilled margin ; the lip 

 large, entirely suffused with a delicate lilac rose, and having a large orange-coloured blotch 

 towards the point. C. Warscewiczii has the apex of the lip entirely of a rich deep violet 

 rose, varying in intensity in different plants. It is, therefore, more showy than this variety, 

 which has nevertheless a sweet delicacy of tint. 



Cibotium princefs. — Mr. Bull, Chelsea: First-class Cei-tificate, February 18. — Avery 

 fine new Fern, introduced to our gardens by Mr. Linden. The fronds are large, tri-pinnate, 

 rather more herbaceous-looking than other Cibotiums, glaucous on the under surface. The 

 stipes and rachides are clothed with spreading golden brown hair-scales, which are very 

 conspicuous. 



Cypripedittm barbattjm, var. latisepalum. — Mr. B. S. Williams, Holloway: Com- 

 mendation, March 4. — A fine variety of a handsome stove perennial. The leaves are more 

 distinctly variegated with whitish blotches than in the ordinary forms. The flowers have a 

 remarkably broad upper sepal, the upper half of which is white, while the lower portion is 

 elegantly streaked with green, on a ground colour of piuple, which runs out into veins. 

 The flowers are bold and effective. 



L ilium Fortune — Mr. Standish, Bagshot, February 18. — A new Japanese species 

 introduced by Mr. Fortune. The example now produced was weakly, having been but 

 recently imported, and no correct opinion could be formed on its merits as a garden plant. 

 As shown it had a slender, erect stem nearly a couple of feet high, fm-nished plentifully with 

 longish linear-lanceolate leaves, and terminating in a large solitary flower, which was yellow, 

 spotted over with deep brown red dots, and having the perianth segments reflexed. 

 Probably, when better established, it will prove a desirable and ornamental species. 



Ly caste Skinneri. — Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea: Special Certificate, 

 February 18.— A collection of twelve distinct varieties, varying principally in the colours 

 and markings of the lip. This proves to be one of the best of Orchids in its season for 

 decorative purposes, and one of the most enduring in the atmosphere of a living-room. 



Oreopanax dactylipolium. — Mr. Bull, Chelsea: Commendation, February 18. — A fine, 

 erect-growing Mexican shrub suited for conservatories. It has large, rather long-stalked 

 palmately-divided leaves, the lobes of which are sometimes again lobed ; they are, especially 

 while young, clothed with rusty down, which is easily removable. It is an'eflective foliage 

 plant. 



PHALiExopsis Schilleriana. — B. Warner, Esq., Chelmsford; E. McMorland, Esq., 

 Hampstead Eoad; Mr. W. Bull, Chelsea : First-class Certificate, February 18.— A beautiful 

 Manilla Orchid introduced last year, but only now bloomed for the first time in England. 

 The plant has elongated, oblong, blunt leaves, prettily blotched with patches of greyish- 

 white, almost as in some of the tropical species of Lady's Slipper. The flowers, which 

 approach those of P. amabilis in form, measure about 3 inches across the expanse of the 



