The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

ORCHID COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 24. clxxxvii [187]

ORCHID COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 24, 1905.

Mr. GURNEY FOWLER in the Chair, and nineteen members present.

Awards Recommended:—

Silver-gilt Flora Medal.

To Baron Sir H. Schröder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), for a fine group of Orchids.

To Jeremiah Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigete (gr. Mr. Bound), for a large group of Cypripediums, Lælias, &c.

To Messrs. Charlesworth, Bradford, for a group of hybrid Orchids.

Silver Flora Medal.

To Messrs. Stanley, Southgate, for a group.

First-class Certificate.

To Oncidium corynephorum Lindl. (votes, unanimous), from Elijah Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Holbrook). A beautiful species, shown for the first time. Habit of O. serratum and bearing a long, flexuose, branched inflorescence of many flowers. Flowers about 1 1/2 inch across. Sepals and petals broadly ovate and nearly equal, rosepurple, with broad white margin. Lip broad, as large as the petals, reddish-purple, base yellowish. Shown as O. Leopoldianum.

Award of Merit.

To Cypripedium × 'Germaine Opoix' ('Madame Coffinet' × Fairrieanum) (votes, unanimous), from Francis Wellesley, Esq., (gr. Mr. Hopkins). Dorsal sepal large, green at the base, white above, bearing many dotted purple lines. Lip and petals yellowish, tinged with purple. (Fig. 58.)

To Cymbidium × 'Maggie Fowler' (giganteum × elegans) (votes, unanimous), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis). Flowers nearest to C. giganteum, but more numerous, cream-white, with close lines of red-brown on the sepals and petals and blotches of the same colour on the lip.

To Cattleya × 'Lord Rothschild' 'Fairy Queen' (Gaskelliana alba × Dowiana aurea) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Charlesworth. Flowers white, with orange disc to the lip and an irregular band of rose-purple in front.

To Cypripedium × 'Lord Ossulston' (Leeanum virginale × Charlesworthii album) (votes, unanimous), from the Right Hon. the Earl of Tankerville, Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. Dorsal sepal large, pure white, with small green base. Petals and sepals pale green, slightly tinged with rose.

To Cattleya × 'Marie Henriette de Wavrin' (Loddigesii × Rex)]] (votes, unanimous), from the Marquis de Wavrin, Château de Ronsele, Belgium (gr. M. De Geest). Flowers cream-white, with orange-coloured disc to the lip, in front of which is a narrow purple blotch.

To Masdevallia cucullata (votes, unanimous), from Jeremiah Colman, Esq. (gr. Mr. Bound). A fine species, with chocolate-purple flowers, each with a hooded green bract.