STANHOPEA. 581 



S. grandiflora, Lindley. — A distinct and pleasing species. 

 The plant has ovate farrowed pseudobulbs, broad lanceolate 

 plaited leaves, and short pendent scapes, bearing the very large 

 flowers, which are fully six inches in diameter and very 

 fragrant, pure white except a few crimson dots on the basal 

 and middle parts of the lip ; the hypochil is roundish, two- 

 horned in front, the mesochil solid truncate hornless but 

 obsoletely tridentate, and the epichil ovate. The column is 

 much elongated. It blooms at different times of the year, 

 and lasts about three days in perfection. — Trinidad. 



FiG.—Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1414 ; Maund, Botanist, iv. t. 176. 

 SYS.—Ceratochilus grandijlorus, 



S. insignis, Frost. — This is the original StanJiopea, and a 

 very handsome plant it is. The pseudobulbs are clustered, 

 ovate, furrowed, with a broadly lanceolate dark green plicate 

 shortly stalked leaf, and a drooping spike of three or four large 

 showy fragrant flowers. 

 The flowers are of a pale 

 dull yellow, whitish or 

 creamy towards the tips, 

 and dotted with purple on 

 the inner face, the spots 

 being many of them ocel- 

 late ; the lip is whitish 

 spotted with purple, the 

 hypochil being in addition 

 deeply stained with purple ; stanhopea insignis. 



the hypochil is globose, 



split in front, the mesochil bears falcate incurved horns, and 

 the epichil is roundish ovate entire. The column is remark- 

 able for its broad winged margin. The flowers are produced 

 in August and September. There is a variety named flava 

 by Dr. Lindley which has yellowish flowers, and is unusually 

 sweet-scented. — Brazil. 



¥iO.— Bot. Mag., tt. 2948—9 ; Bot. Reg., t. 1837 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1985 ; 

 Rchb. Fl. Exot., t. 265. 



S. Martiana, Bateman. — A magnificent species, quite dis- 

 tinct in character and appearance. The pseudobulbs are ovate 

 and furrowed, the leaves lanceolate plicately venose, and the 

 peduncles two-flowered ; the sepals are very pale straw- 

 coloured sparingly marked with small vinous spots, the petals 

 white with larger spots, and a broad blotch of crimson at the 



