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an Award of Merit. The flower is white, prettily flushed with rose-purple, 
and having some green veining at the base of the dorsal sepal, and minute 
purple spots on the petals. A similar award went to Lelio-cattleya X 
Wellsiana ignescens, a richly coloured form of this hybrid. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), 
sent a finely shaped and coloured form of Cypripedium insigne called 
C. i. Fowlerianum. esd 
M. Jules Hye-Leysen, Coupure, Ghent (gr. M. Coen), sent Cypripedium 
x Madame Jules Hye (Spicerianum X tonsum), a fine flower having the 
dorsal sepal flushed with rose and the mid-rib deep purple. 
W. E. Padbury, Esq., Langley Park Farm, Beckenham, sent a fine 
form of Cypripedium xX Antigone. 
T. Bennett-Poé, Esq., Holmewood, Cheshunt (gr. Mr. Downes), 
sent Lelia anceps and a very fine branched spike of Oncidium tigrinum. 
Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool (gr. Mr. Poyntz). sent an 
interesting group of cut Cypripediums, including C. x Endymion, 
C. x Lachesis, C. x Belus, and a particularly fine form of C. X Minos 
called Young’s variety. He also sent a hybrid from C. callosum 2 
and C. X microchilum ¢, which scarcely differs from the former except a 
little in the colour of the dorsal sepal. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, sent a very fine hybrid under 
the name of Cypripedium X Hera Euryades splendens (Leeanum ? X 
Boxallii 3), to which a First-class Certificate was given. The usual spots 
’ of the dorsal sepal are replaced by a rich rose-purple area in the middle. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, showed Cypripedium 
x Lord Roberts (Charlesworthii X Creon), a very fine and richly coloured 
hybrid to which a First-class Certificate was given. The upper sepal is 
broad and flat, amethyst-purple, with darker veining and some white 
marbling near the apex ; the petals rose-purple with some brownish veining; 
the lip brownish rose, and the staminode lilac with a yellow tooth. They 
also sent a splendid example of C. insigne Sandere bearing six flowers, to 
which a Cultural Commendation was given. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co.. St. Albans, received an Award of Merit for 
Zygocolax xX Amesiana (Zygopetalum brachypetalum @ xX Colax 
jugosus, g), a very pretty hybrid, intermediate in size and shape, with 
apple-green sepals and petals heavily marked with purple, and a white lip 
with narrow violet radiating lines. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. also sent a hybrid Cypripedium, called 
x Lord Roberts, quite different from that of Messrs. Charlesworth, being 
derived fron C. niveum X venustum. The flower is white, tinged and 
Spotted with rose-purple. 
