2 STAUR0P3IS. 



Stauropsis fasciata. 



Stem as thick as an ordinary writing-pencil, and about 18 inches 

 high in plant observed, from which are produced cord-like, branching, 

 aerial roots several feet long. Leaves very leathery, oblong, obtuse, 

 3 — 4 inches long, sometimes apiculate, sometimes unequally two-lobed at 

 the apex. Racemes stoutish, ascending, longer than the leaves, four or 

 more flowered. Flowers 2 inches in diameter, with rather short, three- 

 angled, stalked ovaries ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, light 

 chestnut-brown barred with yellow, obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 

 acute, the lateral sepals falcately curved ; lip three-lobed, shorter than 

 the other segments, white with some red-brown dots on the front lobe, 

 the side lobes erect, nearly hatchet shaped, the intermediate lobe 

 spreading, ovate-oblong, acute, with two falcate auricles at the base, and 

 a rounded erect plate on the disk. Column short, coloured like the 

 sepals and petals. 



Stauropsis fasciata, Benth. Geu. Plant. III. p. 572 (1883). Trichoglottis 



fasciata, Kchb. in Gard. Chrou. 1872, p. 699. Williams' Orch. Alb. V. t. 208. 



The native country of this singular Orchid has not been recorded, 

 but like all the species in this and the nearest allied genera^ it is 

 unquestionably of Asiatic origin. It was introduced in 1872. We 

 are indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., for materials for 

 description. 



S. gigantea. 



Stems robust, thicker than a man's thumb, 20 or more inches high. 

 Leaves broadly strap-shaped, very leathery, recurved, 18 — 24 inches long, 

 closely imbricating, unequally two-lobed at the apex. Kacemes drooping, 

 about a foot long, 6 — 9 or more flowered. Flowers of coriaceous 

 texture, about 3 inches in diameter, yellow with ocellated chestnut- 

 brown spots, the sjDots on the sepals darker and more numerous, the lip 

 and column paler ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, the sepals stained with dull red-purple behind, the 

 lateral two prominently keeled ; the petals smaller than the sepals, and 

 less prominently keeled ; lip much smaller than the other segments, 

 fleshy, incurved, linear-oblong, with three white longitudinal keels of 

 which the middle one reaches to the apex, and with two erect, rounded 

 auricles at the base, and a small, two-toothed callus l)etween them. 

 Column three-angled, very short and thick. 



Stauropsis gigantea, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc .XYIII. p. 331 (1881). Hook. 



f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 27. Vanda gigantea, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 215 



(1832). Id. Fol. Orcli. Vanda No. 2. Id. in Gard. Chrou. 1858, p. 312. Bot. 



Mag. t. 5189. V. Lindleyana, Griffith Not. ad Plant. Asiat. Ill, p. 353 (1851). 



Illus. hort. VIII. t. 277. Fieldia f^ig;mtea, Kchb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 39, t. 112 



(1862). Id. Walp. Ann. VI. p. 871 (1864). 



First discovered by Dr. Wallich in Moulmein, shortly after the 

 annexation of the province in 1826, Later it was found by Griffith 



