STANHOPEA. 469 
S. florida.—This species was introduced about ten years 
ago, and first flowered with Sir Trevor Lawrence, who pro- 
cured it at an auction sale. Its habitat is not at present 
known. It belongs to the section represented by S. insignis. 
The flowers are produced on a stout, pendulous scape, strong 
plants bearing as many as seven flowers on a single scape. 
Each flower is 5in. across. The sepals are 3in. by rdin., 
white, with small, purple dots. The petals are smaller, and 
coloured like the sepals. The lip has a thick, fleshy, sac-like 
base, and is whitish, thickly spotted with purple, with a 
large, eye-like blotch on each side at the base. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, Oct., 1881, p. 565, fig. 108. 
S. insignis.—A very handsome species, related to S. Bu- 
cephalus. Pseudo-bulb ovate and ribbed; leaf stout, 
leathery, with a short petiole and a blade rft. long by qin. 
wide. Scape about 6in. long, covered with dark brown 
sheaths, two- to four- flowered. Flowers 5in. across; sepals 
broad, concave, spreading, dull yellow, spotted with purple; 
petals narrow, wavy, thin, coloured like the sepals; base 
of the lip short and globose, thick and wax-like, 1in. deep, 
with a broad margin, the colour a dull white, with numerous 
spots of bright purple, wholly purple inside the cavity ; 
horns tin. long, curved upwards and forwards; mid-lobe 
heart-shaped, channelled, and narrowed to a point. This 
species was the first to flower: under cultivation, and the 
genus Stanhopea was founded upon it by Sir William 
Hooker, in compliment to Earl Stanhope, then President 
of the Medico-Botanical Society of London. It was intro- 
duced from South America to Kew, and flowered there in 
1827. Plants of it flowered at Kew last year (1889). 
Fig. 107; Botanical Magazine, t. 2948. 
S. Martiana.—A distinct and beautiful-flowered species, 
not uncommon in cultivation. It is closely related to 
