STANHOPEA. 



ORCHIDES. 589 



Slanhopca 



aurea G. Lodd. in Bot. Reg. 184T. Misc. 31. (Varielas omnino aurea , quam cl. Lindl, 

 jta describit: ,,imagine a plant , whose flowers have ihe size of Slanhopea insignis, 

 the form of Stanhopea venusta , the smell of Staniiopea oculata , the colour of Maxil- 

 laria aromatica, and are arranged in a spike two feel long, and the reader wiil havc 

 a tolerably distinct conception of ihis beautiful thing, which Mssrs. Loddiges received 

 from Mr. Bateman , who received it from Guatemala. It has the two dark spots of 

 Stanhopea oculata, but they are in some manner lost in the flood of yellow ihat sur- 

 rounds them.") Endl. Parad. "Vind. Fasc. 5. Spica oblongata mulliflora. Bracteae 

 cvariis duplo breviores ; seu aequales : Slanhopea amoena Klotzsch ! — ob bracieas 

 longiores et folia (!) distincta ! Vidimus specimina authentica et habuimus inflores- 

 centiam aulhenticam vivam a dom. Mathieu. Ab ill. Lindley, qui descriptionem tan- 

 tum noverat ad St. inodoram sub B. amoena (Folia 1. Stanhopea pag. 2. N. 2.) posita. 

 Quid tamen cum Slanhopea Bucephalo quacum comparavit cl. Klolzsch commune ha- 

 beat, nisi bractearum longitudinem, non intelligimus. Stanhopea graveolens Lemaire 

 in FI. des Serres VIII. 1846. II. huc pertinet ob gynostemii alas super tertiam infi- 

 mam abruptis. Flores vulgo vitellini imo sulphureo ochroleuci tepalis purpurco 

 punctulatis . nunc etiam sepalis ; labello praesertim basi vitellino, apice pallidiore 

 fundo foveae hypochiliaris intus atropurpureo fasciato. oculo utrinque e.xtus inter 

 carinas; punctulis crebris. Gynostemium alboviride atropurpureo punctulatiim. — 

 Ruiz et Pavon legerunl! Crescit in America centrali : Chiriqui de Warscewicz ! 

 Nova Granada de Warscewicz ! Caracas (Appun! et Wagener ! vivam miserunt). 



18. STANHOPEA GRAVEOLENS Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840. Misc. 125: 



Recedit a praecedenli canali aperlo latiusculo, gynostemii alis basin 

 gynostemii prope altingentibus. 



?Ann. d. hort. de Gand. t. 54. (nuper non vidimus). — Sepala et petala straminea, 

 Labelli basis armeniaca. Odor gravissimus. An varietas praecedentis ?I Cf. ill. Lindl. 

 Bot. Reg. XXVL 1840. Misc. sub 147. sub St. Wardii (var. Barkeri): ,.of this the fra- 

 grance is very agreeable , which is more than can be said of Stanhopea W^ardii itself 

 and some of the other varieties of which I now fear even Stanhopea graveolens 

 N. 125, is one, so many forms bave I examined wiihin the last weeks." — E. Gua- 

 temala? 



19. STANHOPEA RUCKERI Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843. sub 44 : 



Recedit a praecedenti utraque hypochilio obovato, sc. basin versus 

 atlenuato. 



Canalis anguslus. Vulgo quam Stanhopea Wardii Lodd. paulo pallidior. — Var! 

 grammica Rchb. fll. in Olto und Dietrich Allg, Gartenztg. 1855. 243. est varietas coloris 

 armeniaci. Hypochilii antrum purpureum lituris atris pictum ; mesochilium et hypo- 

 chilium rosea. Paulo accedit ad Stanhopeam Wardii. Pedunculus tredecim florcs 

 tenuil. C. Wrede Oschersleben. — Mexico fld. Loddiges. 



20. S,TANHOPEA COSTARICENSIS Rchb. fil. in Otto Hamb. Gtz, 1860. 424: 



pp. Epichilium antice retuso semilunato excisum hinc utrinque uniden- 

 talum, denticulo in medio. 



21. STANHOPEA FREGEANA Rchb. fil, in Otto und Diclrich Allgcm. Garlenzeitung. 

 1855. 313 : 



Hypochiho a basi descendenli dein quadratulo superficie inferiori 

 intruso utrinque sesquicarinato, mcsochihi canali amplo, pectore antror- 

 sum gibberoso obluso, cornubus falcatis subcompressis, tepalis ligula- 

 tis aculiusculis, gynostemii ahs medianis semiovalis, alulis obtusatis. 



