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base of each, and the lip white ; the hypochil is short, scroti- 

 form, the mesochil short with cirrhose horns, the epichil ob- 

 long-linear, obscurely three-toothed, and the column pubescent. 

 It blooms during the autumn. — Mexico. 



'EiG.—Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat, tt. 1, 27 ; Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 44 (bicolor) ; 

 Moore, 111. Orch. PI, Stanhopea 5 ; Flore des Serres, tt. 2112—3. 



Syn.— ^. implicata. 



S. OCUlata, Lindley. — A free-flowering and extremely showy 

 species. It has small ovate furrowed pseudobulbs, each of which 

 bears at the top a large broadly lanceolate nervose leaf, and from 

 the base a peduncle supporting half a dozen large and hand- 

 somely spotted blossoms in a drooping raceme. The flowers 

 are of a lemon-yellow, the sepals covered with a large number 

 of lilac spots, often annular, the petals less thickly spotted, 

 the centre yellow, with two or sometimes four large blackish 

 brown patches on the side of the hypochil, which is elongately 

 boat-shaped, as if unguiculate, the mesochil having two fleshy 

 horns, and the epichil being ovate entire. There are many 

 varieties, most of which are very sweet-scented. One called 

 Lindleyi has the flowers dull wine-red and but little spotted, 

 and is probably the same as S. oculata Barkeriana. The 

 species blooms from July to November. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5300 ; Bot. Reg., i. 1800 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1764 ; 

 Garten flora, t. 189 (crocea). 



Syn. — Ceratochilus oculatus. 



S. tigrina, Bateman. — The handsomest of the species, and 

 the most attractive, whether its strange form, singular mark- 

 ings, or powerful odour are concerned ; the latter has been 

 compared to a mixture of melon and vanilla. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are ovate, furrowed, and support a large broadly lan- 

 ceolate deep green plaited leaf. The peduncle supports a 

 pendent raceme of three or four very large flowers, eight 

 inches in diameter, deep orange yellow, the sepals longi- 

 tudinally barred and blotched with sanguineous purple, the 

 petals sparingly spotted with the same, and the lip with a 

 roundish yellow hypochil having radiating toothed lamellae 

 within the cavity, a two-horned mesochil, and an oval trifid 

 epichil, the two latter parts whitish spotted with purple. It 

 blooms in July, August, and September. The variety nigro- 

 violacea, with the whole flower deep brown-purple except the 

 edges of the sepals and petals and the upper half of the lip, 

 is very handsome. It is figured by Morren in Ann. de Gand., 

 i. t. 21. — Mexico. 



YiG.—Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 7 ; Bot, Mag., t. 4197 ; Bot. Reg., 



