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STANHOPEA INsIGNIS. SPLENDID STANHOPEA. 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriaA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuwes. ) 
Generic Chasacts 
Flores resupinati. Petala patentissima, reflexa, 2 inte- 
riora multo angustiora. Labellum liberum, sessile, ecal- 
caratum, saccato-concavum, appendiculatum, appendice 
tripartito, lobis lateralibus lineari - acuminatis incurvis, 
intermedio magno cordiformi. Colwmna superne alata. 
Anthera operculata. Masse Pollinis \ineari-clavate, dorso 
sulcate, pedicellate, pedicello glandule bilobulate, acumi- 
nate, pellucide affixo. 
Specific Name and Synonym. 
Stanuorga insignis. Frost MSS. 
eae 
- Descr. Parasitic. Bulbs several, clustered, ovate, sul- 
cated, surrounded by many Jaga! long scales, and termi- 
‘Rated each by a single, br 
y lanceolate leaf, of a dark 
green colour, glabrous, having three principal nerves, and 
many parallel, less conspicuous ones ; all very prominent 
on the under side. From the base of a young bulb, whose 
leaf is scarcely expanded, and which is covered by green, 
not yet withered scales, proceeds a scape, bearing two or 
More (sometimes four) flowers, of a most pogo f! size 
and appearance. This scape is four to six inches ong, 
entirely clothed and concealed by thin, membranous, rts - 
ing, convolute scales, the smallest at the base, the mice 
uppermost, where they form a sheathing bractea, conceal- 
ing and enveloping the whole of the pee ne 
pendent, hanging down perpendicularly over the si eel 
