42 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FeBruary, 1918 
excellent shape, and dark claret-purple, with white margin, and a zoneot — 
colour outside the large central blotch on the petals. Exhibited by Messrs. 
Armstrong & Brown. : 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
The Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim, Woodstock (Orchid-grower, Mr 
J. Smith), exhibited Cypripedium Curtingo (Curtisii X Flamingo), a well 
coloured flower, having the dorsal sepal purple with a broad white margin 
and C. Lee-Curtisii (Leeanum xX Curtisii), combining well the characte 
of both parents. 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Normanhurst, Rusper, showed a plant of Miltoni 
Phalzenopsis Cobb’s var., bearing four brightly-coloured flowers. 
Dr. Miguel Lacroze, Bryndir, Roehampton (Orchid-grower Mis 
Robertson), showed Odontioda Madeline Bryndir var., a fine thing, hea ih 
blotched with Indian red on a pale yellow ground. 
R. Windsor Rickards, Esq., Usk Priory, Monmouthshire, sent Cypri 
pedium Eurybiades Mirium, a finely-shaped flower with large purple spot 
on the dorsal sepal, and C. Commodore (memoria Jerninghamiz xX Alcibiade 
illustre), a very fine flower of the Leeanum type, and having a very broa 
- concave dorsal sepal, with emerald green base. Both the plants, as well 4 
the one certificated, were very finely grown. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, received a Silver Flo 
Medal for a fine group, including about a dozen promising Odontogloss 
seedlings bearing their first flower, Cypripedium Cupid, C. Euryades Ne 
Hall Hey var., and other Cypripediums, Leliocattleya Alma (Lc. Erne 
x C. Dowiana aurea), having deep yellow sepals and petals and a rub 
purple lip, with some yellow veining in the throat, the pretty li 
Cirrhopetalum Micholitzii, a few good Cymbidiums, and other hybrids. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, also received a 5 
Flora Medal for a fine group, containing a number of good Odontiodas 4? 
Odontoglossums, the latter including the beautiful Odontoglossum crispl 
xanthotes and O. eximium President Poincaré, a round,’ well-blotch 
flower, Cattleya Enid alba, Cypripedium viridissimum, a fine yellow-gr@ 
hybrid, C. Isonzo (Alcibiades x Mrs. Wm. Mostyn), a richly-colout" 
hybrid, a few good Leliocattleyas, and another plant of the batch | 
Eulophiella Rolfei, richer in colour than the one exhibited last year. 
Messrs. J. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, received a Silver Bank 
Medal for a good group, including examples of Epidendrum cilia 
Calanthe Harrisii, Leelia anceps Sanderiana, and a few choice Cypripediut 
in well-grown examples, those noted including a fine C. Rossetti, ' 
Thompsonii, and the charming white C. Boltonii and C. Dowlingianum, 
latter with some purple markings on the dorsal sepal. 
Messrs. Hassall & Co., Southgate, received a Silver Banksian Medal! 
