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STANHOPEA inodora. 
Scentless Stanhopea. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER. $ VANDEÆ—MAxILLARIDÆ. 
STANHOPEA. Supra, fol. 1800. 
S. inodora ; spicà contractä, bracteis latis oblongis ovario æqualibus, floribus 
inodoris, sepalis lateralibus ovato-oblongis ovario subæqualibus, hypo- 
chilio subcompresso brevi saccato intus glabro anticè bidentato et inter 
dentes profundè sulcato, epichilio subrotundo-ovato integerrimo cor- 
nubus incurvis longiore, column alis latis sensim evanescentibus. 
S; inodora, Lodd. cat. ult. no. 1147. 
Among the most beautiful of the Stanhopeas is that 
apricot-coloured species, with very large flowers forming a 
spreading spike, to which the name of graveolens has been 
applied in consequence of its offensive odour. The kind 
now represented is in many respects very like it; but it is 
scentless, and much paler than any variety of S. graveolens 
which we have seen. 
Messrs. Loddiges imported it from Mexico, and furnished, 
in June 1843, the specimen now represented. 
It differs from S. graveolens not merely in its pale scentless 
flowers, but other circumstances of more importance. In the 
parts of the flower we are not indeed prepared to point out 
much difference beyond the form of the column, which in this 
species has its side wings gradually narrowing downwards till 
they disappear, while S. graveolens has them as broad at the 
one end as the other, whence its column has almost the form 
of a parallelogram. The form of the spike is quite different 
in the two species, owing to the unusual shortness of the 
ovaries. In S. graveolens it is very wide, after the manner of 
S. oculata, the ovary being considerably longer than the 
lateral sepals ; but in S. inodora it is as much contracted as 
December, 1845. 2C 
