STANHOPEA. 



583 



1839, t. 1 ; Moore, 111 Orch. PI, Stanhopea, 4 ; Flore des Serres, tt. 713 

 — 715 (superba) ; ffart. Farad., i. t. 6. 



Syn. — Maxillaria lyncea ; Anguloa Eernandezii. 



S. tigrina lutescens, Williams.— Ihis is a fine variety, with 

 the very large and handsome flowers of a briUiant yellow, 

 inclining to orange, and barred with deep chocolate. It blooms 

 at the same time as S. tigrina, and makes a grand plant for 

 exhibition on account of its bold showy flowers. — Guatemala; 

 Central America : Chiriqui; New Grenada. 



S. Wardii, Loddiges. — One of the most beautiful of the 

 species, remarkable for its brilliancy and for the delicious 

 of its flowers. It 



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has oblong-ovate furrowed 

 pseudobulbs, broad acumi- 

 nate plicate leaves, and 

 drooping racemes of several 

 showy flowers, of which the 

 sepals and petals are golden 

 yellow dotted with purple 

 over great part of their sur- 

 face, and the lip is pale yel- 

 low, with two large dark 

 velvety purple spots on the 

 deep yellow oblong depressed 

 hypochil, reflecting a silvery 

 light as if frosted ; the meso- 

 chil has two fleshy horns 

 dotted with purple, and the 

 epichil is roundish ovate acute 

 with two semiterete falcate 

 subcirrhose horns, also thickly spotted with purple. — Guate- 

 tnala. 



'FiG.—Sertum Orch., t. 20 ; Bat. Mag. t. 5289 ; Knowles and Wesfc. Floral 

 Cab., t. 90. 



S. "Wardii aurea, Lindley. — A very beautiful variety, re- 

 sembling the type in its general characters, but having flowers 

 of a deep orange yellow, the hypochil bearing two dark spots 

 " which are in some manner lost in the flood of yellow that 

 surrounds them." They are borne during the summer and 

 autumn months. — The brilliant colour of the large fragrant 

 blossoms should secure for it a place wherever there is 

 sufficient space, — Guatemala. 

 Syn.— >S. aurea. 



STANHOPEA WARDII. 



