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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
CYPRIPEDIUM MINOTAUR. 
This very fine h\brid was exhibited b}- 
Lieut.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., 
Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), at the Royal 
Horticultural Society on November 22nd, 
igio, when it received a First-class Ce/tificate. 
It is one of those remarkable forms which 
have arisen from the inter-crossing of what 
may be best described as ordinary species. 
The following diagram will show that it is 
made up of three parts insigne, two parts 
Spicerianum, one part villosum, and one part 
Boxallii. 
. . ,^0^^"' jHeravar. 
/ Leeanum I ■' 
Spiceiianum ) 
Minotaur. 
insigne 
villosum 
insigne 
Spicerianum 
nitens 
V Minnie 
Leeanum ) 
The cross was made December 12th, 1905. 
The seed was sown January 30th, 1907. The 
plant flowered November, 19 10. The dorsal 
sepal, which is inches in width, is pure 
white, with a small blotch of yellowish-green 
at the base, prettily marked with deep purple 
spots on the lower half, and with a median 
sti-eak of the same colour extending almost 
to the apex. The broad petals are purplish- 
brown, tinged at the tips with yellow. The 
lip is equally well formed and coloured. 
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Laelio-Cattleya Pauline (L.-C. Ophir x C. 
labiata alba). This pretty hybrid has light 
primrose-coloured flowers with rose-purple 
veining on the labellum. Cattleya aurea 
crossed with Laslia xanthina is L.-C. Ophir, 
and when this hybrid is combined with a 
typical C. labiata the flowers of the seedling 
have a purple tint ; but in the case of L.-C. 
Pauline a variety of C. labiata was used 
having white sepals and petals and a lip 
veined with rose-purple. It is therefore 
interesting to note that this characteristic has 
appeared in the resulting seedling, for there 
is no trace of purple pigment other than the 
veining on the labellum. The plant, which 
carried a fine spike of five flowers, was raised 
in the Westonbirt collection by Mr. H. G. 
Alexander and exhibited at the meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society on December 
20th by Lieut.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, 
K.C.V.O. 
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A flower of Laelio-Cattleya cornuta has 
reached us from the collection of F. J. Han- 
bury, Esq., Brockhurst, East Grinstead. It 
is a hybrid obtained by crossing C. labiata 
with L. autumnalis, and was first raised by 
Mons. Maron, of Brunoy {Joiirn. Soc. Hort., 
France, 1900, p. 848). In this flower the 
sepals and petals are a pretty pinkish-mauve, 
the former being somewhat darker. The 
whole of the front lobe of the labellum is 
covered with mauve, the throat being pure 
white with a slight tinge of yellow on the 
ridges. The petals are 21 inches in width, 
and measure inches from tip to tip. The 
labellum is il inches in width at its broadest 
part. 
