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a pale yellow flower, blotched with brown; and Cypripedium insigne 
Babette, a fine seedling obtained by crossing C. i. punctato-violaceum and C. 
i. albo-marginatum. 
H. S. Leon, Esq., Bletchley (gr. Mr. Hislop), showed Cattleya x 
Barbara (Bowringiana X Trianz). 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, received a Silver Flora Medal for a 
fine group, containing many fine Cattleyas and Lzelias, together with forms 
of Cypripedium x Leeanum, C. X Thalia, C. x GEnone, C. x Euryades, 
and the pretty rose-tinted C. X Katherine (callosum Sanderz x superbiens),. 
most resembling the former in shape. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, staged a group containing 
Cypripedium insigne Ernesti, C. x Leeanum compactum, C. x Niobe 
magnificum, C. X Swinburnei magnificum, C. X Actus, Lelio-cattleya 
x Whateleyz, and others. 
Mr. A. J. Keeling, The Grange Nurseries, Westgate Hill, Bradford,. 
sent good examples of Gamepads x bingleyense, and C. X Leeanum, 
Keeling’s variety. 
At the meeting of the Scientific Committee, held on November 18th 
Dr. Masters reported on a drawing of a malformed Cypripedium submitted 
by Mr. Saunders at a previous meeting. He regarded the flower as an 
illustration of a common tendency in Orchids to produce their flower 
segments in whorls of two, the dorsal sepal being replaced by a single petal 
opposite to the lip and lateral sepals, the remaining organs being absent. 
Mr. Odell brought spikes of the South African Stenoglottis longifolia 
with fasciated stems. 
FERTILITY oF Hysrips.—Capt. C. C. Hurst sent the following com-. 
munication :—‘‘ In the report of the last meeting of the above committee in 
the Gard. Chron., 1902, ii., p. 330, under the heading, “‘ Vigour in Hybrids,” 
the following statement was made :—‘ It was observed that hybrids of Cypri-. 
pedium Fairrieanum will not cross. According to the records this statement 
can hardly be accurate, because on sixteen distinct occasions hybrids of C. 
Fairrieanum have produced offspring which have duly flowered. The. 
following is a list of crosses recorded (for detailed references see the forth- 
coming Orchid Stud Book). (1) Paphiopedilum x vexillarium, a hybrid 
between P. barbatum and P. Fairrieanum, has been successfully crossed 
with P. barbatum, P. bellatulum, P. hirsutissimum, P. Spicerianum, P. 
insigne, P. Stonei, P. X calophyllum. P. x Io, and P. x Williamsianum. 
(2) P. X Arthurianum, a hybrid between P. insigne and P. Fairrieanum has. 
been successfully crossed with P. Argus, P. Spicerianum, and P. x Leeanum. 
(3) P. X Niobe, a hybrid between P. Spicerianum and P. Fairrieanum 
has been successfully crossed with P. insigne, P. Spicerianum, P. x 
