1837 
STANHOPEA insignis. 
Noble Stanhopea. 
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Nat. ord. Orcmpacra, $ VANDER. 
STANHOPEA.—Supra, vol. 18. t. 1529. 
S. insignis; labello medio quam maximă constricto, hypochilii subrotundi late- 
ribuscornutis incurvis, epichilio ovato medio depresso comubusduobus baseos 
ineurvis. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 157. 
Epidendrum grandiflorum. Humb. § Bonpl. Pl. aquinoet. p. 94, t. 27. 
Anguloa grandiflora. H. B. K. nov. gen. $ sp. pl. 1.343. Kunth Synops. 
1. 332, a 
Stanhopea insignis, Hooker in Bot. Mag. 2948-9. Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1985. 
Bractese membranacee, spathacee, subscariose, striate, ovarii longitu- 
dine, ut et ovarium ipsum leviter furfuracee. Ovarium obtuse triquetrum, 
obclavatum, angulis intermediis costatibus minoribus. Sepala 3 patentia, 
circiter 4 uncias inter suos apices, ovata, carnosa, concava, obtusa, flava, 
lucida, intus sanguineo-guttata; 2 lateralibus basibus connatis, Petala 
lanceolata, undulata, reflexa, magis lutea, sanguineo interrupt? fasciata. 
Labellum carnosum, cum basi columne non articulatum, a sepalis distinctum, 
basi ventricosum, albidum, atro-sanguineo confert? guttatum, limbo 3-lobo, 
lobo intermedio subcordato‘ovato carnoso sanguineo-guttato, lateralibus 
falcatis incurvis acuminatis cornuformibus. Columna maxima, 2 uncias 
longa, cum ovario continua, basi semiteres sursum alata, apice obtusè triloba, 
sanguineo densissimê guttata, Stigma clausum, rostello subulato acumina- 
tissimo incumbente. ‘Anthera apice membranacea, bilocularis. Pollinia 2, 
bovata, basi acuminatissima, extrorsum fissa. Glandula subrotunda, antici 
subulata, posticè magis membranacea, subbiloba ; caudicula brevis membra- 
nacea. 
The drawing of this plant was made from a specimen sent 
me in 1830 by the late Mr. Cattley; at that time it was a 
rarity, and the specimen was thought a fine one, but the cul- 
tivation of this genus has since become so much improved 
that still handsomer régie. de ri not mm i ape 
apology may perhaps be required for again figuring what has 
den ph Ebner in the Botanical Magazine and the 
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