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STANHOPEA. 



This is a handsome species which Dr. Lindley identified as the 

 Anguloa grandijlora of Humboldt and Buupland, and which was discovered 

 by them growing on the trunks of old trees in shady woods near 

 Cuen9a^ in Ecuador^ in the beginning of the present century. It 

 was re-discovered on the ascent from Guayaquil to Cuen9a^ at an 

 elevation of 6^000 feet in 1842 by Hartweg^ who sent it to the 

 Borticultural Society of London^ in whose garden at Chiswick it 

 flowered in the following year. 



Stanhopea Bucephalus is occasionally confused with S. Wardii, 

 which it much resembles in the colour of its flowers, but from 

 which it is chiefly distinguished by the much narrower hypochile of 

 the lip, in which the maroon spots so conspicuous in 8. Wardii are 

 absent ; also by the more attenuated horns of the mesochile and 

 more slender column ; it appears to have now become comparatively 

 rare in cultivation. The specific name is fanciful, literally *' ox-head/' 

 but probably the name of the celebrated charger of Alexander the 

 Great was intended.* 



S. Devoniensis. 



Pedxincles 2 — 3 flowered. Flowers fragrant, 4 Indies in diameter ; 

 sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, light fawn-yellow irregularly spotted with 

 brownish crimson except on the apical area ; petals oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, light fawn-yellow with fewer but larger and darker brown-crimson 

 spots ; hypochile of lip saccate, sub-globose, the bottom of the sac 

 almost flat and sub-quadrate, the basal side dark maroon-purple, the 

 remainder white spotted with purple ; lobes of the mesochile curved like 

 a bullock's horn, and nearly parallel with the sides of the epichile, ivory- 

 white ; epichile cordate with the margins ujDturned at the almost 

 truncate apex, ivory-white with a few purple spots at the basal end. 

 Column with narrow wings, white spotted with purple except at the 

 apex. 



Stanhopea Devonieusis, Lindl. Scrt. Orch. t. 1 (1839). Id. in Bot. Reg. 1843, sub. 

 t. 44. Id. Fol. Orch. Stauliopea, No. 13. Van Houtte's Fl. des iSerres, A', t. 974. 

 Echb. Xeu. Orch. I. p. 119. Id. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 586. 



The origin of this fine species is virtually unknown; one hypothesis 



assumes Peru, another Mexico or Guatemala, without any direct evidence 



being adduced in support of either ; we have recently had indirect 



evidence of its being of Mexican origin, which is supported by its 



* This celebrated horse died in North-west India after the battle with King Porus, and after 

 carrying Alexander through all his campaigns. It had been purchased by his father Philip 

 for thirteen talents, and no one was able to break it in except the youthful Alexander. 



