= THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
approach those of the Sophronitis in colour, though with a brilliant yel ov 
throat, as in the Cattleya parent. This hybrid was raised about fifte 
years ago by Mr. Seden, and had been already in bloom nineteen ia 
before it was brought to the Drill Hall. 
Cypripedium x Arete was the name given to a new hybrid betweell Cc 
concolor ? and C. Spicerianum $, which received an Award of Merit. Th 
leaves were about two or three inches long, and mottled with two not very 
decided shades of green. The dwarf slender scape bore a single flow 
about half as large as that of C. Spicerianum, the colour creamy, pea 
in great profusion with rose dots, the upper sepals, base of the petals, a 
edge of the lips are tinged with greenish-yellow, and the staminode about 
intermediate in shape. It is an extremely interesting cross, but the colours 
-are not so decided as in some of the other hybrids from C. concolor. 
Among the other exhibits were Epiphronitis x Veitchii (Sophronitis 
grandiflora 2x Epidendrum radicans ¢) with a few brilliant flowers; Selen 4 
pedium x Cleola (S. Schlimii albiflorum @xS. Boissierianum ¢), a pretty 
hybrid with waxy flowers tinged with rose; Cypripedium x CEnone “4 
Hooker ¢xC. superbiens ¢) and C.x Pheres (C. insigne 2x C. hirsutis: 
simum $), which is really a variety of C.x Alcides, 
Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., Clapton, contributed a select group, 
noticeable among them being a fine plant of Cypripedium x Leeanum with 
eighteen blooms, the waxy Angraecum sesquipedale, Saccolabium giganteum 
with a fine truss of white and rose flowers, several plants of Cypripedium : 3 
bellatulum, C. Chamberlainianum, C. Dayanum, Selenipedium x Sedemt 
candidulum, an almost pure white Odontoglossum crispum, and two pla ats 
of Vanda Amesiana in full bloom. 7 
Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son, Upper Holloway, contributed the 
remarkable Cypripedium x enfieldense raised by Mr. Ayling, gardener o 
Mr. A. J. Hollington, Forty Hill, Enfield (also exhibited by Mr. Measures), 
Calanthe x Oweniana (C. x Veitchii 2x C. x nivea 2) with rose and wh 
blooms, and a hybrid Cypripedium from C. Hookerz ? and C. superbien 
in reality a form of C. x GEnone. 
Messrs. Pitcher and Manda exhibited twelve distinct variations 
Cypripedium insigne, a fine form of C. x Niobe, and C. x venusto-Spi 
num. 
Mr. P. MacArthur, Maida Vale Nursery, exhibited a small plant of th 
very rare Odontoglossum Kramerianum, having two blush-white fom 
with purple lip and a square yellow spotted crest. ; 
The next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held 
January 17th, 1893, when the Orchid and other Committees will meet 
the usual time. 
