and Trinidad. Professor Lindley doubted this, and considered the fact 
of Stanhopea grandiflora having been obtained from Trinidad, and 
Stanhopea eburnea from Brazil, as giving importance to other charac- 
ters pointed out by him. Not one of these characters, however, dis- 
tinguish all plants of the two sections from each other, but they never- 
theless are not identical in all respects. In the Trinidad plant, the 
pseudo-bulbs are broader, much less attenuated at the apex, and per- 
haps rather larger than those of our Brazil plant; the petals are 
spathulato-linear, but attenuated and slightly curved downwards at 
the apex, revolute, and then turned in behind the lateral sepals, but 
not reftexed in their sides. The anther gland is more cordate than in 
the Brazil plants. We have, however, enough of variation among the 
Brazil plants themselves to satisfy one that these are mutable cireum- 
stances, and certainly make no approach to a specific distinction, 
though the appearance of the pseudo-bulbs did make me believe, 
before the Trinidad plants came into flower, that it would prove to be 
specifically distinct from Stanhopea eburnea. I cannot do otherwise 
than believe now, that Stanhopea eburnea and Stanhopea grandiflora 
are variable forms of the same species, especially as Professor Lindley 
doubted whether he would have attached much importance to the dis- 
tinctions he pointed out, had not the plants been from distinct 
localities. I more than partake of these doubts, and for these reasons 
have ventured to give the name of Stanhopea grandiflora to our Brazil 
plant, and to quote Stanhopea eburnea as a synonyme belonging to it. 
The specific name grandiflora being the older, is necessarily preferred. 
My previous belief that there is no specific distinction between 
these plants has been strengthened since writing the above, by having 
seen a specimen in flower in the garden of the Caledonian Horticultural 
Society, with flowers much smaller than any specimen either of Stan- 
hopea grandiflora or Stanhopea eburnea which I have ever seen. The 
petals, too, are much narrower, proportionally, and are twisted upon 
their axis, but not revolute at the extremity. It has the attenuated 
pseudo-bulbs of Stanhopea eburnea, but was received from Mr. Cooper 
under the name Stanhopea grandiflora, and is very vigorous. Its scape 
is less elongated than any of my specimens, but certainly not erect. 
I have to-day measured a pendulous scape on my Trinidad plant, 
and find it very nearly nine inches long. The variations among the 
plants in the Botanic Garden then, and in that of the Horticultural 
