28 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (January, 1923. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Stamford Hill, exhibited Cypripedium Brigadier 
General (Pyramus X Duke of Marlborough), a bold flower with a showy 
dorsal sepal and handsome mahogany coloured petals. Also Cyp. The 
Claimant (Marcus x Alcibiades), with the pretty dorsal sepal of orbicular 
formation, and covered with small purplish spots on a white ground. 
R. Windsor Rickards, Esq., Usk Priory, Mon., exhibited Cypripedium 
Draco, Usk Priory variety, bearing two handsome flowers with bold dark 
chocolate spotting, the upper part of the dorsal being white. Also Cyp. 
‘Chrysotens, Usk Priory variety, in which the plant bore three large flowers 
of excellent shape, the orbicular dorsal sepal having an apple-green base 
and marked with blackish lines and spots. 
Messrs. Cypher & Sons staged a selection of the best Cypripediums, 
among them being Nydia, Actzeus Bianca, fine varieties of Priam, Goliath, 
very well developed, and Cyclops. The bright yellow C. insigne Sandere 
is always attractive and excellent examples were included. 
Messrs. Flory & Black exhibited Brassocattleya Rosita (Bc. Ilene x C. 
Dowiana) with three large flowers, very prettily tinted with rose mottling 
and with gold lines in the expansive labellum. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown staged Odontoglossum Nora, with a many 
flowered branching spike, and Cypripedium Pacavia, a large flower, the 
dorsal sepal having a greenish base, and with large purplish-brown spots on 
the upper portion. 
December 12th, 1922. 
Members of the Orchid Committee present: Sir Jeremiah Colman, 
Bart. (in the chair), Prince Tadashige Shimadzu, Messrs. Jas. O’Brien (hon. 
sec.), G. F. Moore, C. J. Lucas, R. Brooman-White, H. G. Alexander, 
W. H. White, H. T. Pitt, J. Cypher, J. E. Shill, Fred. K. Sander, Gurney 
Wilson, C. H. Curtis, Pantia Ralli, S. W. Flory, T. Armstrong, E. R. 
Ashton, J. Wilson Potter and Fred. J. Hanbury. 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATES. 
Vuylstekeara Aspasia (Odontioda Charlesworthii x Miltonia Charles- 
worthii), from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. Another remarkable hybrid 
comprising the three genera Cochlioda, Miltonia and Odontoglossum. The 
young plant carried a single flower in which the sepals and petals were 
reddish-rose, and the expansive Miltonia-like labellum rose-coloured with 
reddish freckling. 
Odontoglossum Vega (King Arthur X Midnight), from Messrs. J. & A. 
McBean. The spike of this attractive hybrid carried five large flowers, all 
the segments of solid crimson-red and with a very narrow white border. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
Cypripedium Etta (Mrs. Rickards x Chardwar), from R. Windsor 
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