GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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work treating on Garden 
tion that it is in culti- 
Morren 
Stanhope a 
orchidaceous 
stove 
gun, introduced 
plants, leads to the supposi- 
y a tion, though Professor 
where. 
ciiiRHATA. Zindley. A 
pipliyte, from Nicara- 
Skiimer. 
II; 
not 
flowered. 
A few pseudo- bulbs 
were sold at one of Mr, 
been collected in Nica- 
A couple of specimens 
Among Stan- 
of this remarkable plant 
Skinner's 
having 
define it. 
wing- 
Howers being 
in spathaceous 
being 
pair of feelers 
Its 
horns, 
are extremely 
ragnaby Mr. Warcziewitz, 
.11 spirits enable me to 
liopeas it is unique, for the 
absolutely solitary, not 
spikes, and for the column 
as 
less, and extended into a 
like some Odontoglossmns. 
short and fleshy. Its colours are unknown, but it does not promise to be a showy species of much horticultural interest. 
—Joum. Ilort.Soc, Vol. v. p. 37. 
54 Stanhopea ecornuta. a Lemaire. A stove orchidaceous epiphyte, from Central America, 
Up yellow. (Fig. 20). 
Warcziew 
Flowers white, with the base of the 
This extremely carious plant differs from all the previously known Stanhopeas, in having a *PJ*"jjjf *j°^ ™ 
horns, and without any break in its middle. It may be regarded as a species with .he JW~ <« ft ^ much the 
alone present. This body is described as being « ovate, obsoletely triangular at the eno, *e» J » . ^ 
form of a slipper, extremely fleshy, of a very bright yellow-orange colour, £-**^XE. with the eohnnn, 
and mottled on its sides with handsome purple blotches. Four little tumours, two neai the aiuu 
and two near the point, indicate fonr abortive horns." The flowers are otherwise pure white, **^J£*J£ 
near the base of the petals, which are short, firm, concave, and not refiexed, as in most other stannt p *».^ ^ ^ ^ 
is very short, very fleshy, compressed, rounded above, winged at the s.des, channelled in ion . 
Va n Home's Flore, 1. 1 8 1 . Can it be a monster 
grow in pairs, are about \\ inches across, and have very short bracts, 
of Stanhopea tricornis \ 
55. Stanhopea tkicornis. Llndley. An orchidaceous epiphyte, from Western tPfem ; plants of 
which were dispersed at one of Mr. Skinner's sales. Has not yet flowered. (Kg. *LJ 
, i i • „ « +Vi,vi1 hnru at the base of the miatile 
A very curious thing. The figure of the lip is most remarkable, there be.ng a thud horn at ^ ? ^ 
lobe of the lip in addition to tl two always present at the side. In a figure sent home bj «* J ap , ia renth 
are represented to be pink and the rest of the flower white ; the petals moreover ace ver> Beany, nnn^ ^ Pi 
incapable of rolling back as in the rest of the genus.— Joa.-n. of Bort. Soc. iv. I ig. 21 a repi M™ » P 
56. Acinetachrysantha. 2**%. (o^ Neippergia ehrysaiitH M rm.) *^*&g* 
supposed to h* ft™ \u; m hU^i nt f iiumt. hv M. Aueuste Mechelynck, m beptemoer, i »■• • 
