﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



an Award of Merit, and a plant of the beautiful Odontoglossum crispum 

 xanthotes was also noteworthy. 



Messrs. A. J. Keeling & Sons, Westgate Hill, Bradford, staged a small 

 group, and received a Vote of Thanks, also an Award of Merit for Cypri- 

 pedium X Leeanum Reeling's var. 



Messrs. John Cowan & Co., Gateacre, received an Award of Merit for a 

 fine plant of Cypripedium insigne MacNabianum. 



M. D. McLeod, Chorlton, exhibited a small group of hybrid Cypri- 

 pediums, to which a Vote of Thanks was accorded. 



Mr. W. Owen, Hartford, also received a Vote of Thanks for a collection 

 of Cypripedium varieties. 



Mr. J. Robson, Altrincham, exhibited a few good Cypri pedes. 



ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 



Several beautiful Orchids are sent from the collection of the Right 

 Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., by Mr. Mackay, including Ltelia X nigrescens 

 (tenebrosa X puinila pntstans), a very dark-lipped form; Lselio-cattleya X 

 Tresederiana (L. crispa X C. Loddigesii), in which the character of the 

 former comes out very strongly in the lip ; L.-c. X Helena (L. cinnabarina 

 X C. Schilleriana), with orange-brown sepals and petals, the latter prettily 

 undulate, and the front lobe of the lip rich purple-crimson ; L.-c. X 

 Gottoiana ; and a seedling purchased from Messrs. Keeling. Of the latter 

 Cattleya Loddigesii is given as one parent, and its characters are well shown 

 in the shape and colour of the flower, while the pollinia show that the other 

 parent was a Laelia, but it is not quite certain which. A tinge of yellow in 

 the purple of the segment, with some purple veining on the lip, and a 

 slight undulation of the petals, suggest something like L. grandis, but the 

 point requires to be cleared up. It is a pretty little hybrid. 



The brilliant little Sophrolaelia X lseta Orpetiana is sent from the 

 collection of Captain Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury. The flower measures 

 three inches across, and is bright carmine-rose in colour, with some deep 

 yellow in the throat of the lip. A flower of the handsome Lalio-cattleya 

 X Cassiope Westonbirt var., which received an Award of Merit from the 

 R.H.S. on November 24th, is also sent, and Mr. Alexander remarks that 

 it has been open quite a month. It is large, and of excellent shape and 

 colour, the lip being of the deepest purple, and the deep yellow throat also 

 lined with purple. Laelio-cattleya X Ophir superba (L. xanthina X C. 

 Dowiana aurea) is another most beautiful hybrid from the same collection. 

 The sepals and petals are of the deepest apricot-yellow, and the front of the 

 lip is more or less suffused with rose, while some of the Dowiana veining 

 appears on the side lobes. The flower has been open a month. 



