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lip, which is white, has a short, chin-like base and cavity 
a pair of broad, taper-pointed horns, and a long, projecting 
central lobe, with a claw-like tip. The column is 2in. long, 
club-shaped, not winged, white, with crimson spots. This 
species is a native of South Mexico, whence it was intro- 
duced. im)(1827.: Syn» .S: welata: 
Bateman’s Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala, t. 27. 
Var. bicolor differs from the type in having the ground- 
colour of the sepals pure white. 
S. oculata.—A well-known species, showing considerable 
variation in the markings of its large flowers. The pseudo- 
bulb is egg-shaped, 2in. long, and furrowed. The leaf has 
a stout petiole 3in. long, and an ovate blade rft. long by 
4in. wide. The flower-spike is pendulous, rft. long, clothed 
with boat-shaped, scarious, pale brown sheaths, and bearing 
three to six flowers; these are 5in. across. The sepals are 
3in. long, tin. broad, reflexed, pale yellow, thickly spotted 
with purple. The petals are half as large as the sepals, 
and coloured the same, except that the spots are fewer 
and larger. The lip is long, narrow, fleshy, the hollowed 
portion rin. long, white, with crimson blotches, the front 
lobe tongue-shaped, with a curved, horn-like lobe on each 
side, the colour being white, with purple dots. The column 
is at least 2in. long, narrow in the lower half, winged 
above, and coloured green, with purple dots. This hand- 
some species was introduced from Mexico about fifty years 
ago. Syns. S. guttulata, S. Lindleyt, S. Schmidtiz. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5300. 
S. platyceras.—This is the largest-flowered, one of the 
richest-coloured, and the most remarkable in form, of all 
Stanhopeas. Our description is taken from a plant which 
flowered recently at Kew: Pseudo-bulbs and leaves as in 
S. Bucephalus, but stouter. Scape pendulous, short, one- 
