JANUARY, 1912.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 9 
CYPRIPEDIUM LORD WOLMER, WESTONBIRT VAR. 
AT the R.H.S. meeting, held on December roth last, a handsome secondary 
hybrid was exhibited from the collection of Lieut-Col. Sir George L. 
Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander), under the name 
of Cypripedium Lord Wolmer, Westonbirt var. (Leeanum x Euryades 
leopardinum), to which an Award of Merit was given. <A photograph has 
been kindly sent, which is here reproduced. The flower, as will be seen, is 
Fig. 1. CYPRIPEDIUM LORD WoOLMER, WESTONBIRT VAR. 
of excellent shape, and the dorsal sepal very broad, white, with a green 
base, a broad purple median band, and numerous small purple spots, which 
are very regularly arranged, while the lower sepal is very large and similar 
in colour. The petals and lip are very broad, the former having an undulate 
aipper margin, while the colour is greenish yellow, tinged, veined and aot: 
avhat spotted with brown. Three species are concerned in its ancestry, ©. 
