DECEMBER, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 373- 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM XANTHOTES WESTONBIRT VAR.—A_ very 
beautiful form, having very broad segments, with deep golden yellow 
blotches on:the sepals and lip. The spike bore eleven flowers. Exhibited 
by Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford. 
SOPHROCATLALIA NIOBE (L.-c. Gottoiana xX S.-l. heatonensis).—A 
handsome hybrid, having large bright reddish rose sepals and petals, with a 
darker lip, and some yellow in the throat. Exhibited by Messrs. Charles- 
worth & Co. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATIONS 
CG@LOGYNE FIMBRIATA.—To Mr. W. H. White, Orchid grower to Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, Bart., for a very large and well-flowered specimen. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPO-HARRYANUM THE DELL var.—To Mr. J. E. 
Shill, grower to Baron Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green, for a 
large and well-flowered plant, bearing a spike of fourteen very fine flowers. 
SIGMATOSTALIX RADICANS.—To Mr. W. H. White, Orchid grower to Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, for a very large.and profusely-flowered specimen. 
At the meeting held on November 18th there was a very fine show of 
Orchids, and the awards consisted of seven medals, six Awards of Merit, 
and one Cultural Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), de Barri Crawshay, Gurney Wilson,. 
F. Sander, R. G. Thwaites, F. J. Hanbury, T. Armstrong, A. McBean, 
C. H. Curtis, W. Cobb, J. Charlesworth, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, J. E. 
Shill, W. P. Bound, Arthur Dye, W. H. White, S. W. Flory, W. Bolton, 
C. J. Lucas, R. B. White, and Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr- 
Alexander), sent Cypripedium Gulliver (Mrs. Wm. Mostyn x Sultan), a 
remarkably dark-coloured hybrid, having the dorsal sepal purple-black 
below, with a broad whitish margin, and the petals and lip very dark 
purple-brown. 
Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam (gr. Mr. Chapman), sent 
Cypripedium Chapmaniz superbum (Fairrieanum x Calypso), with much 
purple veining on the dorsal sepal, two distinct forms of Odontioda 
oakwoodiensis (O. Bradshawize x Odontoglossum percultum), a very 
pretty rosy flower spotted with cinnamon-brown, and O. Hippolyta 
Cookson’s var., a very fine form, having the flower almost entirely orange- 
brown with a white margin. 
E. H. Davidson, Esq., Orchid Dene, Twyford, sent Sophrolelia Sunray 
(S.-l. Marriottiana X L. cinnabrosa), with elongate brown sepals, deep 
yellow petals, and a dark purple lip, Sophrocattleya Saxa, Odontoglossum. 
nigrescens, and handsome forms of O. Aireworth, Gladys, and illustre. 
