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Tas. 5289. 
STANHOPEA Warpil. 
Mr. Ward's Stanhopea. 
Nat. Ord. OrcurpE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5278.) 
Stannorea Wardii; racemo pendulo multifloro, sepalis lateralibus subrotundo- 
oblongis concavis acutis basi alte connatis, petalis lanceolatis revolutis, hy- 
pochilio sessili angusto saccato intus ‘tuberculato medio angustiore margi- 
nibus approximatis depressis complanatis basi connatis, mesochilio utrinque 
cornuto in medio sinu cornuum foveato, epichilio cornuum longitudine sub- 
rotundo-ovato acuto indiviso marginibus recurvis. Lindl. 
STANHOPEA Wardii. Loddiges in Litt. Lindl. Sertum Orchidaceum, pl. 20. 
Knowles and Westcott, t. 90. 
Dr. Lindley has given a good figure and description of this 
plant; but our specimen, from the Kew Orchideous House, is 
singularly fine in the size and number of flowers on the raceme, 
and also in the colouring of the perianth,—there a clear bright 
yellow, here a deep golden-orange, but with smaller and fainter 
spots on the sepals and petals. The fragrance of the blossoms 
is very powerful. Our plants were received from Guatemala, 
and the flowers were in perfection in August. It differs, Dr. 
Lindley says, from Stanhopea quadricornis, in the lower part 
of the lip not having the strong horn on each side; from S. ocu- 
lata, in the lip being sessile, not stipitate, and a great deal shorter 
in proportion to the other parts ; and from S. saccata, Batem., in 
the middle segment of the lip being three-lobed, in the sharpness 
of the petals, and in the form of the horns of the lip. Indeed, 
the chief distinctive characters of the species of Stanhopea are 
derived from the labellum; there is great uniformity in the rest 
of the flower, and still more in the pseudobulbs and foliage. 
One of the most striking features of this flower is the colour of 
the cavity formed at the base of the lip, lined as it were with - E 
dark velvety purple, reflecting a silvery light, and giving it the 
appearance of being frosted. ‘This plant, in full flower, has : 
JANUARY Ist, 1862. — 
