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STANHOPEA DEVONIENSIS. 



S. Devonirjutia ; foliis oblongis 5-nerviis utrinquc ncuttR pctiolo maculnto seinisulcato* 

 labello medio quam maxiitiO constrictojtypochilio subrotundo auticc basi gibboso 

 marginibus carnosis tlilutntis replicatis, cpicl.ilio ovato subcanaliculato apicc 

 obsolete Iridcntato cormtbns duobus bypochilii incurvis anjuali, columnar margi- 

 nilms pnniin dllatatts subpaml Id i«. 



< oatzontc Coxocbill sou Lrncca. Hernandez* Ihesaur, rer. med* nov* his/** />• 2(JG* 



Anguloa Heraandezii. Kunth tynops. I. 332. 



Maxillaria Ivncea. Gen* ct sp. oreft. p. 151, 



Tins noble Mexican Orchidaceous plan! flowered for the first time in this country, in the 

 epiphyte house at Chfttswortli, in the beginning of August, 1837. and certainly there never was a 

 more beautiful sight than when it expanded its large rich leopard-spot reel blossoms, in all the 

 perfection of their singular form and deep soft colours. The full blown (lowers measured nearly four 

 inches and a half across, imd emitted a very agreeable odour, resembling a combination of 

 Chimonanthus, Heliotrope, and the perfume called Marochnl. 



I cannot doubt tlmt this was the famous Lynx flower of Hernandez, when his figure, rude 

 as ii is, and his description ore considered. The flowers, he says, are of n reddish colour, but also 

 while and confusedly dotted. He compares the roots, meaning I lie pseudo-bulbs, to a fig still 

 green: the native place of the plant he describes as rocks and the trunks of trees, but lie adds that it 

 is cultivated for the sake of its beautiful flowers, which nro more striking than words can describe. 

 or the pencil imitate, with the fragrance of a lily : by which he probably meant the White Lily, 

 a favourite Spanish flower. 



From all the species of this striking genus hitherto observed, it differs, as Mr. PaxtOD has 

 remarked to me, in the furrow which terminates the upper side of the leaf at the lower end not 

 miming through lo the pseudo-bulb, but losing itself nbout halfway down the petiole. Independently 

 of this circumstance, it is distinguished from all the varieties of S. insignis, by its much larger flowers, 

 and by the column never having the broad dilated margin, so conspicuous in that species; to gay 

 nothing of the very different form of the lower half of the lip, which in S. Dcroniensis, projects at the 

 base on the under side, instead of being drawn sharply and abruptly inwards. Ii approaches more 

 nearly to S. tigrina. another Mexican plant, the rival of this in beauty, which is about to appear in 

 Mr. Bateman's magnificent publication upon the "Orchidocem of Mexico and Guatemala/* but thai 

 specie* has the middle lobe of the lip divided into three nearly equal portions, both the upper and 

 lower part of the same organ very much broader, and the leaves narrower mid more attenuated at 

 the base. 



In Ihe foliage and manner of flowering of this specie* there i. nothing particular to notice 

 beyond the point, already adverted to. The following » a description of one of the flowers. 



Sepals ovate, obtuse, a little undulated, the lateral ones united at the base under the Up. about 

 two inches and a quarter long by mi inch and a half in width ; their ground colour a clear yellowish 

 orange, richly spotted with deep, broad, reddish-brown blotches, especially in the middle where the 

 spots run together a little. Petals oblong-lanceolate, very wavy, acute, an inch and three-quarters 

 lon». by three-quarters of an inch in breadth, turned back at the point, of the same colour will, .he 

 sepals, but with the blotches assuming the form of broken bands. Lip white, very fleshy, with a f^v 



