Tas. 7702. 
STAN HOPEA Ropicasiana. 
* Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord, OxcHIDEa&,—Tribe VANDEZ. 
Genus Sranvorza, Frost; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 549.) 
Stannorea Rodigasiana; pseudobulbis ovoideis parvis monophyllis, foliis brevi- 
ter petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis trinerviis, scapis elongatis pendulis uni- 
floris, bracteis spathaceis oblongo-lanceclatis acuminatis membranaceis, 
floribus amplis, sepalis patentibus ovato-oblongis subobtusis concavis 
dorsali angustiore, petalis triangulari-lanceolatis superne attenuatis et 
recurvis sepalis zxquilongis, labello carnoso sepalis paullo longiore, 
hypochilio elongato superne paullo dilatato basi ecornuto, mesochilii 
cornibus valde prominentibus apice utrinque dilatatis triangularibus 
acutis antice longe unisetosis, epichilio articulato triangulari-elongato 
obtuso canaliculato basi paullo dilatato et saccato, columna elongata 
inferne teretiuscula densa utrinque alata, alis angustis denticulatis 
apice utrinque in cornu breve oblongum denticulatum extensis, rostello 
longiuscule et divergente bisetoso, anthera generis. 
S. Rodigasiana, Claes, ex Cogn, in Chronique Orchidéenne, p.134. Gard. Chron. 
1898, vol. ii. pp. 14, 31, 32, fig. 9. Gard. Mag. 1898, p. 492, with fizure. 
The genus Stanhopea was established in the present 
work in 1829, on a plant which flowered in the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, and was dedicated to the Right Hon. Earl 
Stanhope, President of the Medico-Botanical Society of 
_ London. Itnow numbers upwards of forty species, eight of 
_ which have been illustrated in the “ Botanical Magazine,” 
namely :—S. insignis, Frost (t. 2948-2949), S. eburnea, 
Lindl. (t. 8359), 8S. tigrina, Batem. (t. 4197), 8. ecornuta, 
Lindl. (t. 4885), 8S. Bucephalus, Lindl. (t. 5278), 8S. Wardit, 
Lodd. (t. 5289), S. oculata, Lindl. (t. 5300), and S. Hase- 
loviana, Reichb. f. (t. 7452). All are remarkable for 
great complexity in the structure of their flowers, and the 
present one is no exception, though in several respects it 
- is So anomalous in character that it cannot be compared 
with any other, and may almost be said to constitute a 
distinct section of the genus. The flowers are solitary, 
borne on rather long pendulous scapes, and the middle 
portion of the lip—the mesochile—bears no approach to 
anything hitherto known. 
Makxcu Ist, 1900. 
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