Flower spike, a foot long, bears up to half-a-dozen 5-inch flowers. Sepals re- 
flexed, pale yellow thickly dotted with purple. Petals half the size, with fewer 
and larger spots. Lip long, narrow and fleshy, with a cavity near the base where 
it is white with crimson blotches; front lobe is spathulate with horn-like lobes 
on each side, this part being white with purple dots. Column green dotted with 
purple. 
STANHOPEA PLATYCERAS. Native of Colombia. 
A stout-growing and remarkable species. The pseudobulbs are stout, dark green, 
ringed and somewhat wrinkled as they age, leaves dark green and stalked, about 
9 by 4 inches and of firm texture. Scape short, generally one-flowered, but occa- 
sionally with two blooms. Flowers about 7 inches across, with spreading, pale 
_yellow sepals, blotched and spotted with rose-purple, and about 34 inches long 
and 24 inches broad. Petals narrower and shorter, similarly colourede. Base of the 
lip (hypochil) boat-shaped, deep magenta inside, paler on the outside with darker 
spots. Horns 1 inch long, broad and curling forwards parallel with the spathulate 
front lobe, which is coloured like the sepals. The column is winged near the top, 
and is pale green spotted with red. 
STANHOPEA TIGRINA. Native of Mexico. (Illustrated. ) 
A very striking species with broad, dark green, petioled leaves on short, oval, 
dark green pseudobulbs. Scapes are long and bear from four to six flowers, each 
of which is 6 inches in width. Sepals nearly as broad as long, and concave; petals 
much narrower and wavy. Both are a murky yellow with very large blotches of 
dull purple. The base of the lip has a broad, short cavity and two short horns 
bent forward at right-angles. Middle lobe, an inch wide, divided at the apex 
into three fleshy teeth. Column 3 inches long, about an inch wide at the top and 
narrowed at the base. The lip and the column are pale, dull yellow spotted with 
purple. The whole flower is extremely waxy in appearance. 
STANHOPEA WARDII. Native of Guatemala. 
Pseudobulbs 2 inches long and oval. Leaves large, broad and leathery. Scape, 
about 9 inches long, carries from four to nine flowers, each about 4 inches across. 
These closely resemble §. oculata in shape, but are much brighter in colour, vary- 
ing from bright yellow to deep golden orange, spotted with crimson. The basal 
cavity is deep velvety purple with a satiny sheen. 
bre EY Meat RA 
This is a genus of herb-like terrestrial orchids spread through the Malay 
Archipelago, Australia and New Zealand. Although they are rarely cultivated, 
they are mostly quite beautiful; in fact, some of the species are outstandingly so. 
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