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round flower of good even colour, and the lip nicely marked ; exhibited by 
Z. A. Ward, Esq. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
Cypripedium leyburnense magnificum, and Frau Ida Brandt ; exhibited 
by the Rev. J. Crombleholme. 
Cattleya Iris var. rubra, Odontoglossum Empress Eugenie (parentage 
uunrecorded), Odontioda Thwaitesii Davidson’s var., and O. Schroederi 
Davidson’s var.; exhibited by Eric H. Davidson, Esq. 
Cypripedium Hassallii (bingleyense x Charlesworthii) ; exhibited by 
Messrs. Hassall & Co. 
LISTROSTACHYS O’BRIENIANA. 
In June, 1892, Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, exhibited an Orchid at a 
‘meeting of the R.H.S. under the name of Angreecum O’Brienianum, which 
was briefly recorded as ‘‘a thick-leaved species of the Chailluanum class.” 
Nothing further seems to have been recorded about it, and it is doubtful 
‘what has become of the original. It is recorded in the Index Kewensis 
(Suppl. i. p. 28) as Angrecum O’Brienianum, Hort. Sand., Gard. Chron., 
1892, i. 812, nomen (Quid?) Hab.? Another plant was exhibited at the 
meeting of the R.H.S. held on August 27th last, from the collection of 
J. S. Bergheim, Esq., Belsize Court, Hampstead, which Mr. J. O’Brien 
recognises as identical with that originally exhibited by Messrs. Sander. 
It was a fine plant, bearing five racemes, and received an Award of Merit. 
It is a Listrostachys, nearly allied to L. Sedenii, Rchb. f., but with 
distinctly broader leaves, these being coriaceous, shortly bilobed at the 
apex, and measuring 6 to 7+ inches long by 13 inches broad. The flowers 
-are borne in arching racemes, about six inches long, and are white with an 
aromatic fragrance. The segments are recurved, acute from a broad base, 
and about $ inch long, and the curved tapering spur is 1} inches long, with 
a brownish yellow apex. This plant was imported from Western Uganda. 
The habitat of Messrs. Sander’s plant is unknown, but they had a collector 
on the Congo at about this period, and although they are not certain they 
think it probably came from there. It is interesting to be able to clear up 
the identity of the plant. R. A. ROLFE. 
A CURIOUS CYPRIPEDIUM CROSS. 
AN event which may interest readers of the Orchid Review happened last 
winter in my collection. Some few years ago I crossed a flower of an 
exceptionally broad-petalled Cypripedium Spicerianum with one of the 
yellow varieties of C. insigne, C. i. Youngianum. Some eight plants were 
reared, and until this year all produced spotted flowers of the usual C. 
Leeanum character, and of no particular merit. Last winter the remaining 
