58 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1916, 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
Cypripedium Venus var. Cupid, C. Queen of the Belgians Carter Place 
var., C. Mrs. F. Godman, C. Alliance (Alcides X Leeanum Clinkaberry- 
anum), and C. Euryades Victoria ; from Tom Worsley, Esq. 
Cypripedium illustre var. Alexis, and C. Lord Wolmer, St. Mary’s var.; 
from the Rev. J. Crombleholme. : 
Cypripedium Conquest Woodside var. (Leeanum x Tankerville) ; from 
F. Houghton, Esq. 
AWAKD OF APPRECIATION. 
Lzliocattleya Mygdon Ashworth’s var.; from R. Ashworth, Esq. 
CATTLEYA GENERAL-JOFFRE.—This is a very beautiful Cattleya raised 
by M. Ch. Maron et fils, Brunoy, France, and exhibited at a meeting of 
the Société National d’Horticulture de France on November 11th last, 
when it received a Certificate of Merit, with felicitations (Journ. Soc. Nat 
Hort. France, 1915, p. 167). The parents are recorded as C. Fabia alba 
var. Madame Ed. Debrie crossed by an unnamed C. Rex hybrid. The plant 
was flowering for the first time, the inflorescence bearing two medium-sized 
flowers, with ochre-yellow sepals, cream-white petals, about half as broad as 
long, and a well-displayed lip, of intense purple colour, and the throat 
bright yellow, with some purple lines at the base. It is described as of 
excellent form, and one of the most beautiful hybrids yet obtained. M. 
Maron writes us that he has no record of the supposed C. Rex hybrid that 
was used as the pollen parent, but he mentions those that have been 
raised by him from from the latter species. There is the original C. 
Halevy (Mendelii X Rex) which flowered as long ago aS 1900; a val. 
Gismonda, from the same parents; C. triumphans (Dowiana aurea X 
Rex) ; C. Gaskelliana alba X Rex—which will be a variety of C. Pearl— 
and C. flavescens X Rex. It is difficult to suggest the parentage without 
' seeing a flower, but of the foregoing C. triumphans seems the most likely, 
on account of the strong influence of C. Dowiana, and the shape and colour 
of the petals. Perhaps’M. Maron will be able to send a flower when it 
blooms again. C. triumphans, it may be remembered, was figured at page 
313 of our last volume. 
CATTLEYA ANDROMAQUE (TRIUMPHANS X WARSCEWICZII ALBA).—This 
is a very beautiful hybrid, raised by M. Ch. Maron, Brunoy, France, which 
received a First-class Certificate at Paris on September gth last. M. Maron 
writes that he forwarded to us one of the flowers, but unfortunately it never 
reached us, doubtless owing to the abnormal conditions of the post caused 
by the war. M. Maron exhibited a variety called C. Andromaque superba 
at the same time. 
