16 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | January, 1918. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM LORD-WOLMER WESTONBIRT VAR. LS i 
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HIS model winter-blooming Cypripedium affords a guod example of 
the great improvement that is being effected in the genus by hybrid- 
isation and selection. It was derived from C. Leeanum xX C. Euryades 
leopardinum, and thus C. Leeanum is twice represented in it, for C. 
Euryades is itself the product of C. Leeanum X Boxallii. It was exhibited 
Fig. 2. CyPpRIPEDIUM LorD-WOLMER WESTONBIRT VAR. 
at a meeting of the R.H.S. held in December, 1911, by Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. 
Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander), and received an 
Award of Merit. The flower is of excellent shape and substance, and the 
resemblance to C. Spicerianum in the dorsal sepal, with its broad median 
and, will be at once apparent. The copious spots on this organ are bright 
purple, except on the small green basal area, where they are purple-brown. 
The broad petals and lip are shining purple-brown, and show the influence 
