JUNE, 1907.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 169 
PAPHIOPEDILUM x LOUISE. 
THE annexed figure represents the very handsome Paphiopedilum x Louise 
(P. Mastersianum ¢ X_bellatulum ¢), the figure being reproduced from a 
photograph kindly sent by Sir Benjamin Scott, Linden House, Stanwix, 
Carlisle, together with a painting of the flower. It was purchased with a 
lot of other seedlings from Messrs. Sander about two years ago. The plant 
is said to have a very vigorous and robust habit, the leaves being about 
nine inches long by three inches broad, mottled with dark green and 
spotted with yellow. The scape is six inches high, and the flower measures 
Fig. 21. PAPHIOPEDILUM X LOUISE. 
five inches broad across the petals. As regards shape little need be said, 
but it will be seen that it is of excellent form, the dorsal sepal and petals 
being very broad. The ground colour is pale cream, densely dotted with 
red-purple, the dots on the dorsal sepal being chiefly arranged in lines, and 
not extending quite to the margin, while the lip and staminode are also 
suffused and somewhat dotted with similar colour. The sender remarks 
that the few judges who have seen it consider it exceptionally good, a view 
in which we fully concur, for it is excellent in shape and very richly 
