HORTUS VEITCHI1 



STELIS BEUCKMULLEEI, Echb. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6521. 



A quaint little orchid of botanical interest, introduced from the Mexican 

 Andes, with minute flowers of a purple colour, hairy inside. 



STELIS GLOSSULA, Echb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 1373. 



A curious little orchid of botanical interest only, imported from Costa 

 Eica, with brownish flowers in two transverse rows, and bracts larger than 

 the whole of the flower. 



STELIS ZONATA, Bchb.f. 



Echb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xx. p. 556. 



A botanical curiosity introduced from Demerara, allied to Stelis muscifera 

 of Lindley, but smaller in all its parts, and interesting from its coloured 

 zone. 



STENIA GUTTATA, Bchb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiv. p. 134. 



A species closely allied to the rare Stenia pallida, but the sepals and 

 petals are blunt and shorter, and spotted with Indian-purple on a straw- 

 coloured ground. 



It was found in Peru by Walter Davis, and flowered at Chelsea in Ju 

 1880. 



THUNIA BENSONLE, Hook. f. 



Syns. Phaius Bensoniee, Hemsley. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5694 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 97. 



Discovered by Colonel Benson in the neighbourhood of Eangoon in 

 1866, and flowered for the first time in this country in the Eoyal Gardens, 

 Kew, and Chelsea in July 1867. 



The flowers are amethyst purple in colour, the lip frilled at the edges 

 and marked in the centre with numerous longitudinal frilled keels. 



TEICHOCENTEUM PINELI, Lindl. 



Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 772. 



Discovered near Eio by Chevalier Pinel, who collected specimens, and 

 after whom it was named. It flowered for the first time in this country 

 at Chelsea in 1854. 



TEICHOCENTEUM PUEPUEEUM, Lindl. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 772. 



A plant of botanical interest only, described and named by Dr. Lindley 

 from a plant which flowered in 1854, and which we believe came from 

 Demerara. 



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