cclxxiv PKOCEEDINGrS OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Messrs. Stanley : Cypripediums. 

 Messrs. Armstrong & Brown ; rare Cypripediums. 

 G. P. Walker, Esq. : Brassocattlaelia x ' Surprise ' (C. bicolor 

 x B.-l.-c. x Digbyano-purpurata). 



Orchid Committee, December 7, 1909. 



Mr. J. Gurney Fowler in the Chair, and nineteen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To H. S. Goodson, Esq. (gr. Mr. G. E. Day), for a group. 



To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for Cypripediums. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth, Haywards Heath, for hybrids. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Mansell and Hatcher, Eawdon, for a group. 

 To Messrs. Cypher, Cheltenham, for Cypripediums. 



Award of Merit. 



To Cypripedium x ' Lion ( x ' Boadicea ' x Sallieri Hyeanum) 

 (votes, 10 for, 5 against), from Messrs. Sander, St. Albans. A very large 

 flower with rose-coloured dorsal sepal with a green base and white tip. 

 Petals and lip honey-yellow tinged with red-brown. 



Botanical Certificate. 



To Monomeria barbata Lindl., from the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, 

 Glasnevin, Dublin. A singular species having the growth of a Bulbo- 

 phyllum. Pseudo-bulbs roundish, distantly placed on stout one-leafed 

 rhizomes. Infloresence about a foot in height, and bearing about twenty 

 flowers, somewhat resembling those of a Gongora. Upper sepal ovate- 

 acuminate and resting on the column ; lower sepals connate and twisted, 

 larger than the upper, and hairy. Lip poised on the upturned end of 

 the column, hinged, moving up or down as the position of the flower 

 is changed. Colour greenish- white marked with red. Figured in King 

 and Pantlin's Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya, t. 208. 



Other Exhibits. 



Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford, CLE., C.V.O. (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander) : 

 new hybrid Cypripediums. 



Francis Wellesley, Esq. (gr. Mr. Hopkins) : Cypripediums. 

 Messrs. Stuart Low : a group. 



His Grace the Duke of Marlborough : Cypripediums. 



Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. : Laeliocattleya x ' Epicasta ' Colmaniae. 



Mr. E. V. Low : a group. 



C. L. N. Ingram, Esq. : two Laeliocattleyas. 



Monsieur Mertens : hybrid Odontoglossums. 



E. Rogerson, Esq. : Cypripedium insigne albens. 



