STAUROPSIS. 205 
Dretoprora CHAMPIONI, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 26; Ic. Plant., 
| | t. 2090. 
Stem 3 to 6 in. long. Leaves flaccidly fleshy, acute, slightly narrowed at the rounded 
base, 2:5 to 3:5 in. long, and “6 to :75 in. broad. Peduncle '5 to 1 in. long, ending 
in a short 3- to 4-flowered flexuose undulate raceme. Flowers ‘75 in. across; floral 
bract short, ovate, keeled. Petals narrower than the sepals,  Hypochile of the lip 
attached to the lower part of the sides of the column. Column very short and 
broad. Stigma large, caudicle of pollinia bent. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 26. Cottonia 
Championi, Lindl. in Hook. Journ. Bot. VII (1853), 35; in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 39; 
Benth. Fl. Hongkong, 357.  Luisia bicaudata, Thwaites’ Enum. 302. Vanda bicaudata, 
Thwaites, l. c. 429. 
Bhutan, above Engo, elevation about 2,000 feet; Gammie; Pantling, No. 284; in 
flower during July and August. Khasia Hills; elevation 3,000 to 4,000 feet; Hooker 
and Thomson. Assam, Mikir Hills; Simons, G. Gammie. Ceylon; Thwaites. Hongkong; 
Hance. 
The sepals and petals of this are yellow; the lip and column white, the latter 
being marked with cinnamon-brown, 
PLATE 274.— Diploprora Championi, Hook. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral 
bract, stalked ovary, column with anther in situ and lip, in profile, 3 front view of column, with 
anther in situ, showing the stigma and rostellum, 4 apex of column with pollinia tn situ, the cap of 
the anther having been removed, 5 empty anther from below, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
45. Stauropsis, Reichb. fil. 
Epiphytal; stem stout, rigid, leafy. Leaves coriaceous, flat or keeled, spreading, 
bilobed at the apex. Kacemes extra-axilary. Sepals and pelals widely spreading, 
spathulate-lanceolate or obovate, the latter smaller than the former, Lip smaller. than 
the sepals and petals, adnate to the base of the column, channelled, its basal part 
(hypochile) concave, prominently auricled; the mesochile contracted, and the epichyle 
thickened, laterally compressed and concave, the dise with two long glabrous or hairy 
ridges. Column short, stout, without any foot, truncate at the apex. Anther depressed. 
Pollinia 2, sub-ovoid, plano-convex, bipartite on the posterior surface, attached by a 
caudicle to a large gland. Species about 6; Indo-Malayan. 
A genus differing from Vanda chiefly by its lip, which is neither saccate nor spurred at the base, but 
which is concave and auricled, the mesochile being narrowed аці the epichyle thickened and concave. 
The sepals and petals also are less narrowed at the base than those of Vanda. 
STAUROPSIS UNDULATA, Benth. ex Hook. fil in Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 27. 
Stom 8 to 14 in. long, erect, minutely warted like the peduncle. Leaves narrowly 
oblong, blunt, retuse, not tapering at the base, 3 or 4 in. long, and '75 in. broad. 
Peduncle leaf-opposed, stout, rigid, diverging, with a few distant short sheaths 6 to 8 
in. long; raceme lax, few-flowered, 2 to 3 in. long. Flowers 1'5 in. across, Sepals and 
petals with very wavy edges, all more or less retlexed. Lip adnate to the base only of 
the column; the auricles of the hypochile large, rounded, erect, embracing the column, 
mesochile short, epichyle concave, dise with two ridges running from the base nearly. 
