Cxlvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



large form of Cypripedium Lathamianum x, Laelia anceps 

 Sanderiana, and other forms of L. anceps. 



The Eight Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, 

 Moor Green, Birmingham (Orchid grower, Mr. Burberry), sent a 

 four-flowered spike of Laelia anceps Sanderiana. 



C. J. Lucas, Esq., staged cut flowers of a fine form of Pesca- 

 torea Klabochiana, Dendrobium aureum zeylanicum, Cypri- 

 pedium Ainsworthii x , C. Sedeni candidulum x , Laelia anceps 

 Hillii, L. a. Sanderiana, L. a. Stella, &c. 



The Earl of Cork and Orrery, Marston House, Frome 

 (gardener, Mr. W. Iggulden), sent a three- flowered portion of a 

 spike of a large variety of Arachnanthe (Vanda) Cathcartii, for 

 which a special vote of thanks was recommended. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, exhibited a group of 

 cut Orchids, comprising the fine Cypripedium nitens x , St. 

 Albans var. ; C. Leeanum princeps x, C. L. Masereelianum x, 

 C. Louryanum x , C. Macfarlanei x , and other Cypripediums, 

 and the fine white Laelia anceps Schroderiana. 



W. H. Evans, Esq., Forde Abbey, Chard, Somerset (gardener, 

 Mr. John Crook), sent to be named bunches of Ccelogyne corru- 

 gata and spikes of Angraecum eburneum virens. 



Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, the United States Nurseries, 

 Hextable, Swanley, Kent, exhibited plants of Cypripedium 

 Germinyanum x (C. villosum $ x C. hirsutissimum $ ) and 

 C. Godsefnanum x (C. Boxalli 5 x C. hirsutissimum $). 



Messrs. Heath & Son, Cheltenham, sent the new hybrid 

 Cypripedium Swinburnei x (C. insigne Maulei $ x C. Argus 

 Moensii <?), a variety greatly resembling a good C. Ashburtoniae 

 x , but with dark purple spots on the petals and upper sepal. 



Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co. exhibited the 

 large-flowered Laelia praestans, Heaton var. 



H. M. Pollett, Esq., showed a hybrid Cypripedium (C. 

 Spicerianum $ x C. marmarophyllum $). 



Chas. Ingram, Esq., sent Cypripedium venusto-Spiceri- 

 iuium x. 



Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Wylam-on-Tyne, exhibited two 

 fine spikes of a hybrid Calanthe (C. vestita rubra ? x C. 

 Williamsii The Committee expressed a desire to see the 

 plant when next in bloom. 



