STANHOPEA tigrlna. 



Tiger-Jiowered Stanhopea. 



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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. WEW YORK 



BOTANIC A I 



Nat. ord. OrchidacejE, § Vande^. OAKUHN 



STANHOPEA. Bot. Reg.fol. 1529. 



S. tigrina ; hypochilio subrotundo intus lamellis glandulosis radiato, metachilli 

 cornubus f'alcatis porrectis epichilii tridentati longitudine, sepalis lateralibus 

 maximis subrotuudo-oblongis petalis multo latioribus. 



S. tigrina. Bateman Orchid. Mex. et Guatem. t. 7. 



The species of Stanhopea are so much alike, except in 

 their flowers, that it is rarely necessary to introduce their 

 organs of vegetation into the description of them. It is in 

 the flowers that their differences are apparent, and especially 

 in the labellum, if colour is disregarded. 



The present beautiful species is characterised by having 

 the epichilium shallowly 3-lobed, in which respect it corre- 

 sponds with no other hitherto discovered, except S. saccata, 

 which is extremely different. The inner surface of the hypo- 

 chilium will also be found very remarkable, being broken up 

 into glandular lamellae, which radiate from the base of a kind 

 of ovate tooth which is itself directed towards the cavity they 

 occupy. Fig. 1. represents this structure. 



The flowers of S. tigrina are larger and handsomer than 

 those of any other known species, even exceeding those of 

 the magniffcent S. Devoniensis ; this is sufficiently apparent 

 from the annexed figure, in which nevertheless the colours 

 are by no means so brilliant as in the plate of this plant in 

 Mr. Bateman's magnificent work on the Orchidace* of 

 Mexico and Guatemala. 



January, 1839. b 



