Tas. 5300. 
STANHOPEA ocvunata. 
Lyed Stanhopea. 
Nat. Ord. Oncu1pEa.—Gynanpria MonanpRIa. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5278.) 
StraNnwopea oculata ; bracteis ovariis longe acuminatis duplo brevioribus, hypo- 
chilio unguiculato elongato cymbiformi antice intruso basi ecorni intus levi 
extus bicarinato, mesochilio bicorni carnoso aperte suleato mutico, epichilio 
ovato integro, cornubus semiteretibus ascendentibus acutis, columna late 
alata. Lind. 
STANHOPEA oculata. Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p. 158. Bot. Reg. t. 1800. 
Lindl. Fol. Orchid. p. 3. 
CERATOCHILUs oculatus. Lodd. Bot. Cab. é. 1764, 
Native of Mexico, introduced about thirty years ago through 
Mr. Deppe, from Xalapa, by Mr. Loddiges, who published a 
figure of it in ‘ Botanical Cabinet’ under the name of Ceratochilus 
oculatus. It is powerfully, almost too, odoriferous, scenting the 
whole house with its fragrance; and the size and number of 
flowers on the spike, and the waxiness and smoothness and 
almost polish of these, together with their strange form, add to 
the interest of the plant. 
Dr. Lindley, in his more recent writings on the genus Stanhopea 
(in ‘ Folia Orchidacea ”), enumerates and describes twenty species, 
most of which are now figured in this work, and he there notices 
the variations in the colouring of the flowers of that now under 
consideration. “These flowers,” he says, “are usually lemon- 
coloured, with a large number of lilac spots on the sepals, a 
smaller number on the petals, a deep yellow eye, and two, or occa- 
sionally four, large dark brown spots on the side of the hypochil, 
which is very much lengthened out, as if unguiculate ; by the 
latter circumstance it is chiefly known from S. Wardii (our Tas. 
5289) and S. Bucephalus (our Tas. 5278), which latter has a 
long narrow opening to the hypochil, and short ovaries. Nume- 
MARCH Ist, 1862. 
