The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

cxcii [192] PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

ORCHID COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 21, 1905.

Mr. H. J. VEITCH in the Chair, and eighteen members present.

Awards Recommended:—

Silver Flora Medal.

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

To M. Chas. Vuylsteke, Loochristy, Ghent, for hybrid Odontoglossums.

To Messrs. Jas. Veitch, Chelsea, for a group.

Silver Banksian Medal.

To Messrs. Low, Enfield, for a selection of Cypripediums, Cattleyas, &c.

To Messrs. Stanley, Southgate, for a group.

First-class Certificate.

To Cypripedium × 'The Baron' (Hitchensiæ × nitens 'Sander's variety) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Sander, St. Albans. Dorsal sepal white, spotted with dark rose and with a green base. Petals and lip yellowish, tinged and marked with purple.

Award of Merit.

To Disa pulchra 'Tring Park variety' (votes, unanimous), from the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. A. Dye). Inflorescence a foot in height and bearing ten pale-lilac pink flowers bearing a resemblance to those of a gladiolus. Native of Griqualand East, South Africa.

To Mormodes Badium (votes, unanimous), from the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild. The type plant, bearing an erect inflorescence of ruby-red flowers. The yellow variety was shown from Tring Park, January 12, 1897, and was voted an Award of Merit.

To Cypripedium × Thalia giganteum (insigne Chantinii × 'Baron Schröder) (votes, 9 for, 3 against), from Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Hopkins). Dorsal sepal broader and rounder than in any previously shown; white, with a green base and many spotted lines of rose-purple colour. (Fig. 62.)

To Cattleya 'Mrs. Pitt' var. magnifica (Harrisoniana × Dowiana aurea) (votes, 12 for, 2 against), from Major G. L. Holford, Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander). Sepals and petals rose-pink; lip orange, darkest in the centre.

To Odontoglossum × Hallio-crispum Theodora (Hallii × crispum roseum) (votes, unanimous), from De B. Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables). Flowers equal to a good O. crispum, primrose-yellow, spotted with red-brown.

To Odontoglossum × Phœbe (cirrhosum × crispum) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Charlesworth. Flowers nearest to those of O. cirrhosum, but with broader and shorter segments; white, tinged with pink and evenly spotted with reddish-brown.

Cypripedium × Actaeus chardwarense (insigne × Leeanum) (votes, unanimous), from G. F. Moore, Esq., Bourton-on-the-Water (gr. Mr. Page). Flowers nearest to C. insigne; greenish with white upper half to the dorsal sepal, which has a green base and some purple blotches.