An, S011, 
STANHOPEA GRANDIFLORA. 
Ecuador. 
ORcHIDACHAE. Tribe VANDEAE, 
StTanworna, Lrost; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 549. 
Stanhopea grandiflora, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 587, non Lindl.; 
holfe in Orch. Rev. vol. xx. p. 172; affinis S. oculatae, Lindl., sed labelli 
hypochilio latiore nec gradatim attenuato differt. 
Herba epiphytica. Pseudobulbi ovoidei, sulcati, circiter 5 em. longi, monophylli. 
Folia petiolata, elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, abrupte acuminata, plicata, 
25-80 cm. longa, 9-11 cm. lata. Scopi penduli, 15-20 cm. longi, 4-7-flori, 
basi vaginis ovato-oblongis imbricatis obtecti. Bracteae oblongae vel 
lanceolato-oblongae, subacutae, convoluto-conduplicatae, 4-5 cm. longae. 
Pedicelli 5-6 cm. longi. Flores magni, speciosi, sepala et petala ochracea, 
purpureo-maculata, labellum album, sparse purpureo-maculatum, et 
columna viridi-alba, purpureo-maculata. Sepalum posticum elliptico- 
oblongum, snbobtusum, concavum, circiter 5°5 cm. longum; sepala 
lateralia elliptico-ovata, subobtusa, 5:°5-6 cm. longa. Pe/ala oblonga, 
acuta, subundulata, circiter 5 cm. longa. Labellum circiter 5 cm. 
longum; hypochilium obovato-oblongum, Jateraliter carinatum, ore 
circulari; mesochilium breve, cornubus incurvis; epichilium elliptico- 
ovatum, subacutum. Columna incurva, 4°5 em. longa, alis oblongis,— 
Lpidendrum grandiflorum, Humb. et Bonpl. Pl. Auquinoct. vol. i, p. 94, t. 27. 
Anguloa grandiflora, Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. i. p. 843.—R. A. Rours. 
This striking Stanhopea is one of the earliest known 
species of the genus and was originally described and 
figured by Humboldt and Bonpland in 1805, as Epiden- 
drum grandiflorum, from specimens collected in shady 
woods near Cuenca in Ecuador. Later it was transferred 
by Kunth to Anguloa; still later to its true genus, as 
S. grandiflora, by the younger Reichenbach. This simple 
history has been somewhat obscured owing to the circum- 
stance that LindJey had in the meantime applied the name 
S. grandiflora to a very different plant, now regarded as 
merely a form of the earlier S. eburnea, Lindl., and because 
of the fact that Reichenbach reduced to the true S. grandiflora 
the Mexican species S. Buchepalus, Lindl., and added to it, as 
a variety, the Panama species S. Jenischiana, Kramer. The 
confusion thus induced Lindley aggravated by citing the 
locality and these synonyms of the Ecuador plant under 
one originally stated by him to be a native of Mexico; later 
OcroBER, 1913, 
