Tas. 4885. 
STANHOPEA gEcornutTa. 
Hornless Stanhopea. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDACEm.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium membranaceum, patentissimum vel reflexum, Sepala 
libera, subundulata, mole sua ruentia. Petala conformia, angustiora. Labellum 
liberum anticum; dimidio superiore (epichilio) convexo, inferiore (hypochilio) 
excavato.  Columna longissima, petaloideo-marginata. Anthera bilocularis. 
Pollinia 2, elongata, fissa, caudicula quam glandula biloba stipitata breviore.— 
Epiphyta pseudobulbosa. Folia plicata. Scapi radicales, vaginati, pauciflori. 
Flores mawximi, magis minusve maculati. Lindl. 
STANHOPEA ecornuta; scapo brevi pendulo, bracteis ovario brevioribus, sepalis 
petalisque minoribus ovatis obtusis carnosis concavis, labello calceiformi ob- 
tusissimo ecornuto margine antico tuberculato, columna brevissima carnosa 
sinuato-lobata. Lindl. 
SraNnHOPEA ecorunta. Lemaire, in Flore des ‘Serres, p. 181, Dec. 1846. Pazton, 
Flow. Gard. Gleanings, no. 54. ic. 20. Reich. fil. Bot. Zeit. X. 1852, p. 836. 
Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Part 1. p. 8. 
STANHOPEASTRUM ecornutum. Reich. fil. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. X. 
1852, p.927. Xenia Orchid. tab. 43. 
From the collection of Mr. Loddiges, at Hackney, who received 
it from Central America. I am indebted to Dr. Lindley for the 
following remarks, which are of more value than the most ela- 
borate description, on this curious Orchid :— Em 
“This plant was first published by Professor Lemaire in the 
‘Flore des Serres,’ of December, 1846; and from that work it 
was taken up in my ‘ Folia Orchidacea’ (October, 1852), with 
the suggestion that it might be ‘a monster of some kind ; for in- 
stance, of S. dricornis.’ Immediately afterwards Professor Reich- _ 
enbach, jun., announced (B. Zeit. Dec. 24, 1852) that he had ex- _ 
amined it, and ascertained that it was no monster, but a new 
genus, Stanhopeastrum, ‘ uniting Peristeriacee and Stanhopeacee.’ 
This opinion my learned friend still entertains. When I ven- 
tured to suggest the possibility of the plant being a monster, I 
had not seen it. Now that a living specimen has been under 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1855. 
