ORCHID COMMITTEE, MAY 3. 



clix 



larger than the ordinary form ; pure white with primrose-yellow disc to 

 the lip. The plant bore eight flowers and buds. 



To Odontioda x Charlesworthii var. * Theodora ' [Cochlioda Noez- 

 liana x 0 dent oglos sum Charlesworthii) (votes, unanimous), from 

 de B. Crawshay, Esq. (gr. Mr. Stables). The largest dark scarlet 

 Odontioda. (Fig. 146.) 



To Miltonia x Bleiiana, Hessle variety (i¥. vexillaria ' Queen Alex- 

 andra ' x M. Roezlii) (votes, unanimous), from W. P. Burkinshaw, 

 Esq., Hessle, Hull (gr. Mr. Barker). Flowers large, white tinted with 

 pink; lip broad with a reddish crimson mask at the base. (Fig. 147.) 



Aiuard of Merit. 



To Odont oglos Slim crispum ' Magnum Bonum ' (votes, 13 for, 

 5 against), from Lieut.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, K.O.V.O. (gr. Mr. 

 H. G. Alexander). A model flower with equally broad segments; white 

 with clusters of red-brown spots on the sepals and lip. 



To Cattleya Mendelii ' Pearl McBean ' (votes, 14 for, 2 against), 

 from Messrs. McBean, Oooksbridge. A large blush-white flower with 

 a broad purple, band on the petals, the lip having a mauve-crimson 

 crimped front lobe. 



Botanical Certificate. 



To Disa venusta, from Mrs. Bischoffsheim, The Warren House, 

 Stanmore (gr, Mr. Taylor). A slender blue-flowered species of the 

 D. gr-civiinifolia section. 



Cultural Commendation. 



Silver Lindley Medal to Mr. May, gr. to J. B. Joel, Esq., for a 

 very fine plant of Cyipriyedium RotJischildianum. 



Other Exhibits. 



Lieut.-Gol. Sir G. L. Holford, K.V.G.O. : Cattleya Mendelii. 

 de B. Grawshay, Esq. : hybrid Odontoglossums. 

 Messrs. Jas. Veitch : Brassocattlaelia x 'Pink Beauty' (L.-c. 

 X Hippolyta x B.-c. x Dighyano-Mossiae). 

 H. S. Goodson, Esq. : a group. 



Mr. Gurney Wilson: Odonfoglossum crispum ' Empress of India.' _ 



Mr. E. V. Low : Cattleyas. 



Messrs. McBean : Odontoglossums. 



Monsieur M. Mertens : hybrid Odontoglossums. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.G.Y.O. : Odontoglossuiii 2^/aii/- 

 cheilum s:plendens. 



R. G. Thwaites, Esq.: Odontoglossum x Thwaitesii (ardenlissi- 

 nium X Harryanum). 



R. Brooman-White, Esq.: Cypripedium x 'Nonpareil.' 



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