STANHOPEA tigrina. 
Tiger-flowered Stanhopea. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHiDACEx, $ VANDER. 
STANHOPEA. Bot. Reg. fol. 1529. 
S. tigrina ; hypochilio subrotundo intus lamellis glandulosis radiato, metachilii 
comubus falcatis porrectis epichilii tridentati longitudine, sepalis lateralibus 
maximis subrotundo-oblongis petalis multó latioribus. 
S. tigrina. Bateman Orchid. Mex. et Guatem. t. 7. 
The species of Stanhopea are so much alike, except in 
their flowers, that it is rarely necessary to introduce their 
organs of vegetation into the description of them. It is in 
the flowers that their differences are apparent, and especially 
in the labellum, if colour is disregarded. 
The present beautiful species is characterised by having 
the epichilium shallowly 3-lobed, in which respect it corre- 
sponds with no other hitherto discovered, except S. saccaca, 
which is extremely different. The inner surface of the hypo- 
chilium will also be found very remarkable, being broken up 
into glandular lamelle, which radiate from the base of a kind 
of ovate tooth which is itself directed towards the cavity they 
occupy. Fig. 1. represents this structure. 
The flowers of S. tigrina are larger and handsomer than 
those of any other known species, even exceeding those of 
the magnificent S. Devoniensis ; this is sufficiently apparent 
from the annexed figure, in which nevertheless the colours 
are by no means so brilliant as in the plate of this plant in 
Mr. Bateman’s magnificent work on the Orchidacee of 
Mexico and Guatemala. 
January, 1839. B 
