726 FlorintUural and Botanical Notices, 



crlspuin /?.C curtc(l-/JWn/< d ^ E] or 3 jn Taw.y.ipot Brazil I80I. D p.r.w Hot. cab. IS.vl 

 This lias been lately introcliiccd; and, in June, 1832, flowered with us 

 for the fust time. The flowers are elegant in fonn, and of an uiuisual 

 colour : like the other species, it will on occasion increase by separating its 

 pseudo-bulb-bearing root-shoots. {But. Cab., Oct.) The flowers in the 

 figure are 2 in. in diameter. 



♦.-i^S. .STAN HOM'E^ Hook. ' 



28530a cbiiriica /.in(//. nory.lippcU ^ (ZS or i jl W.V Rio Jan. 1828? 1) p.r.w Bot. rcg. 1529 



A noble epiphyte, figured from Knypcrsley Hall, near Congleton, Che- 

 shire. It was imported from Kio Janeiro by Messrs. Loddiges. " The 

 flowers were slightly fr;igrant, and of short duration; the lip, when fresh, 

 appeared to be ibrnied of the most pure and highly polished ivory. " Pro- 

 fessor Lindley, in this article, cancels his generic title Ceratochilus, because, 

 in ap[)lying it to the plants mcutioiicd below, he did not advert to the 

 existence of the same name in Dr. Blumc's Ohservatioiis iijum Java Plants, 

 Blume's genus appears to be distinct ; and it has, therefore, become neces- 

 sary to atlopt Dr. Hooker's name, Stanho|)c«. Professor Lindley, on this 

 point, thus honourably expresses himself: — "We the more readily do 

 this now, because, on a former occasion, in objecting to the reception of 

 the name IStauhopcw, we suttered ourselves to be betrayed into imkind ex- 

 pressions, which should not have been applied to any one, and least of all 

 to so amiable and excellent a man as our long-tried friend the Professor of 

 Botany at Glasgow." {Bot. Beg., Oct.) 



This revision of the nomenclature appertaining to this family of plants 

 renders necessary the obliteration, from Ilortus Britaiuiicus, p. 489. anil 

 584., of the generic name Ceratochilus, and the substitution of the follow- 

 ing digest of the species umler their new generic title. 



•3411. STANHO'PE.'/ Hook. {F.arl Stniihopc, President of the Meilieo-Botanical Societv.) 



^285J1. insignis Ilwik notable i- (Z^ or 1 jl.o 1' Trinidad ISi-U 1) p.r.w Bot. noag. 2948 



Ceratocl.llus insSgnis Lind'cy. Hor't. Brit. p. 4S;i. No. L'S53I. 

 128530. grandiCbr.i /./;»// larj;e-Ho«cred ^ 23 or 1 jl.o 1' Trinidad 1824. D p.r.w Bot. cab. 1414 



Ccr.itocliilus grandifltirus BC. Uort. ISrit. p. 4S9. No. 'JS-^IO. 

 2«.';30(j ebiirnoa /./m//. ivory. //yv""'' £ CZS or ^ jl VV.P Rio Jan. 1828? D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1.")2<>J 

 28731. oiulala I.indl. eyed £ 123 or I jn Y.spot .\.alapa 1829. 1) p.r.w Bot. cab. 176* 



Ceratochilus oculiltus IJot. Cab. 17ii4. llort. Brit. No. L87ol.' 



S. eburnea " differs decidedly from S. oculata and insignis ; but is, 

 indeed, very clo.sely allied to S. graniliflora, from which it thus difters : — 

 Its flowers are not more than two thirds of the size of those of 8. grandi- 

 flora ; the horns of the base of the lip proceed from the middle of the 

 margin of the hypochiliiun, and not from the front of the margin ; and the 

 scape in S. grandiflora is shorter than the sepals : so that the flowers are 

 erect, while in S. eburnea the scape is twice as long, and pemlulous ; and it 

 is a native of Rio Janeiro, while IS. grandiflora is a native of Trinidad." 



NANtrnivS. (,Vnno(/t'», |>yginy; size of plant.) 20.1 Sp. 2. 



iWscu'.or Limit. i;rccn and purple ^USi*^^ k *"> 1' Kio Jan. J827. D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1541 



" Curious as are very many of the sjiccies of epiphytal Orchidea?, we do 

 not remember one that is nuich more remarkable than this, which possesses a 

 habit (juite its own. Its flowers are so like the leaves from among which 

 they spring, and by which they are embosomeil, that you woidd .scarcely 

 discover tlie plant to be in flower, even if every branch was blossoming." 

 The plant has been long lost in the Horticidtural Society's Uarden ; and, 

 it a|)pears, is a kind not very easily kept. {Bot. Beg., Nov.) 



Orcli'ulca- ^ Epidaidrca-. 



2.W4. EPlDK'NnilUM. 

 22740a virCscens /?. C. grccnisli./irrf. ^ El cu f jl Osh nominica 1S2P. H p.r.w Bot. cab. 1S()7 



" It approaches K. fiiscatum ; but we consider it sufficiently distinct. 

 The soil should be chiefly moss, with a little sawdust." It is not a splen- 

 did species, but one which interests on close examination. {Bot. Cab., 

 Nov.) 



