gee ORCHID-REVIEW. 
VoE..- IV.] JUNE, 1896. [No. 42. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, James’ Street, Westminster, during June, on the gth and 23rd 
respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 
12 o'clock noon. 
A flower of the beautiful Odontoglossum crispum “ Princess,” to which 
an Award of Merit was given by the Royal Horticultural Society on May 
5th last, has been sent from the collection of W. Vanner, Esq., Camden 
Wood, Chislehurst. The segments are very broad, a little stained with 
lilac, and the sepals have one large and several small vinous purple blotches 
above the middle, which are absent on the toothed petals. 
Two flowers of a seedling Cypripedium, cut from different plants, have 
been sent from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury. 
There is a little doubt about the parentage, though it is believed to be C. 
barbatum giganteum crossed with the pollen of C. Curtisii, and the flowers 
are just what would be expected from such a cross. Thus they are the 
reverse cross of C. X Kerchoveanum, and should bear the same name. 
The dorsal sepal is broad, and much like barbatum, while the sepals are 
spotted except at base and apex, and the lip rather large, showing the 
influence of the other parent. Mr. Wrigley states that one has the leaves 
much like C. Curtisii, and the other almost identical with barbatum. 
An unspotted form of Od 1 x And comes from 
the collection of De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks. The 
ground colour is pale straw yellow, deeper on the lip, and the sepals much 
suffused with light purple, as in Ruckerianum, while a trace of the same is 
also seen in the petals. 
