No. 1985. 

 STANHOPEA INSIGNIS. 



Class. Order. 



GYNANDRJA MONANDK1A. 



This is a native of South America. Dr. 

 Lindley, who suggested to us the name of 

 Ceratochilus to another species, having 

 since discovered that the name had been al- 

 ready applied by Blume to a different 

 plant, has now placed it to the genus Stan- 

 hopea, as originally constituted by Dr. 

 Hooker, in Curtis's Magazine. It appears 

 to grow naturally upon trees, with the 

 flowers hanging down, as depicted in our 

 reduced figure : the other two flowers are 

 of the natural size. It requires the stove, 

 should be potted in vegetable earth, and 

 flowers in October. 



Seldom have we witnessed a more extra- 

 ordinary subject in the size and form of its 

 flowers, as well as in the curious markings 

 of their different parts ; but really both the 

 number and the magnificence of the plants 

 of this class become every day more and 

 more astounding : they actually comprise 



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