Tab. 4197. 

 STANHOPEA tigrina. 



Tiger-spotted Stanhopea. 



Nat. Ord. Obchide.e, — Gyxaxdiua Moxogynia. 



Gen. Char. Periautltium raerabranaceum, patentissimum vel reflcxum. Sepal a 

 libera, subundulata, mole sua ruentia. Petala conformia augustiora, LahcRum 

 liberum, anticum, ecalcaratum, carnosum, utrinque cornutum ; dimidio superiore 

 (epicliilio) convexo, inferiore (hypochiKo) excavato. Columna longissima, petal- 

 oideo-marginata. Anthera 2-locularis. Pollinia 2, elongata, fissa, caudicula 

 quam glandida biloba stipitata breviore. — Epiphyte pseiido-bulbosa. Folia pli- 

 cata. Scapi radicates, vaginati, paucifiori. Flores maximi ruagu minusve macu- 

 lati. Lindl. 



Stanhopea tigrina ; hypochilio subrotundo intus lamellis glandulosis radiato, 

 metachilii comubus falcatis porrectis epichilii tridentati longitudinc, sepalis 

 lateralibus maximis subrotuiulato-obloiigis petalis multo latioribus. Lindl. 



Stanhopea tigrina. Batem. Orchid. Meat, et Guatem. t. 1. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 1839. 1. 1. 



Perhaps no Orchideous plant is more calculated to attract at- 

 tention than the present, whether we consider the large size of 

 its blossoms, their strange form and almost waxy consistence, 

 their singular markings, or the powerful fragrance they exhale, 

 scenting the whole stove, and almost too strong to be agreeable ; 

 but which is considered to resemble a mixture of Melon and Va- 

 nilla. The species is now not uncommon in our collections, and is 

 said to have been introduced to them by Messrs. Low, of Clapton, 

 from Xalapa in Mexico. Like the other Stanhopeas it is easily cul- 

 tivated, only requiring to be suspended from a beam of the stove 

 in a wire basket rilled with Sphagnum and other mosses, through 

 which the flower-stalks penetrate downwards and hang below the 

 basket, the pseudo-bulbs and leaves being seen above. During 

 the present and for several months in the summer, our plants in 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens flowered in the highest degree of per- 

 fection, and from one of them this representation was made. It 

 is the best marked and most distinct of all the genus. 



Descr. In the leaves and pseudo-bulbs there is nothing 

 peculiar, a general sameness prevails in them, throughout the 



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