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C. Minotaur (Hera X_ nitens-Leeanum) was probably the most con- 
spicuous in the group. A stately plant bearing four imposing flowers on 
robust scapes. The shapely, rounded dorsal sepal is ivory white, 
with a median narrow line of black-crimson, a few scatterred spots 
break the whiteness, and at the extreme base are some twenty or more 
dark rounded conglomerate spots, above them a yellow  suffusion rayed 
with green. 
C. Cyclops (Actzeus x fulshawense). This hybrid was first exhibited 
from the Westonbirt collection in 1913, but has never been seen to much 
advantage before. Three magnificent bold flowers, lacking perhaps the 
brightly ccloured tints of the Fairrieanum hybrids, but with compensation 
in their size, shape and substance. The apical area of the dorsal sepal 
white, its centre green with chestnut-red spots, petals and lip. mahogany- 
red, the former edged with yellow. 
C. Actzus Bianca (insigne Sandere x Leeanum Prospero) was repre- 
sented by two plants, and the gold and porcelain-white flowers of this well- 
known variety are always lingered over. 
C. Moonlight (Moonbeam x Actzus Bianca) was placed near to 
Marmion, and a greater contrast could not have occurred. Flowers about 
the same size, but the apt name Moonlight conveys some idea of the soft 
yellow, green-shaded petals and pouch, the colour passing to the base of the 
dorsal sepal, the upper portion of which is china-white with a central 
suffusion of softest rose. 
C. Olympus (Alcibiades X Leeanum). First shown in 1913, this variety 
still holds its own for size and beauty ; the margin of the dorsal sepal is 
strongly undulated, white, with a dark median line and a rayed basal 
suffusion of green. 
C. Muriel II. var. amethystinum (Cynthia x Hera). The first Muriel 
was raised by W. M. Appleton, Esq., in 1904, between tonsum and 
Chamberlainianum. From such parents Muriel II. differs very widely, and 
the variety amethystinum is even more distinct. The dorsal sepal, with the 
exception of a narrow white border, is of that peculiar tone of purple-red 
known as port wine, darkest at the base, the petals tessellated and suffused 
with light chestnut on a greenish ground. The inferior sepal is very 
remarkable, the central portion being green from base to apex, the outer 
portions much as inthe dorsal. Each of the three flowers was similarly 
characterised. 
C. Golden Fleece (insigne Sandere x Antinous), a rival to Actzus 
Bianca, similarly coloured, perhaps of deeper gold, but the broad white area 
so conspicuous on the dorsal of Bianca is here reduced in size, and the 
organ is more contracted basally. 
(To be continued.) 
