THE ORCHID REVIEW. 177 
CYPRIPEDIUM x WILLIAM LLOYD. 
THE photograph which we have now the pleasure of reproducing represents 
the beautiful hybrid above named, which was exhibited by Messrs. Hugh 
Low & Co., of the Clapton Nursery, at the Royal Horticultural Society's 
meeting on March rath last, as recorded at page 128. Its parents are 
Cypripedium bellatulum ¢ and C. x Swanianum ¢, and we believe it was 
raised by Mr. Ayling, in the collection of A. J. Hollington, Esq., Forty 
Hill, Enfield. Our first knowledge of this hybrid dates from December 13th 
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Fig. 7.—CYPRIPEDIUM X WILLIAM LLOYD. 
last, when it was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
by Mr. P. Weathers, Silverhall Nursery, Isleworth, and received an Award 
of Merit. Both plants, we believe, were derived from the same source, 
though they are by no means identical, as a comparison of our figure with 
the one given in the Gardeners’ Chronicle last December (p. 757, fig. 97) will 
show. The present one has shorter and broader petals, and has more of 
the general character of the seed parent. This fact, however, only illus- 
