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nearest affinities being undoubtedly Mexican. It somewhat resembles 

 8tanhopea tigrina in colour, but is distinguished from that species 

 by the differently-shaped epichile of the labellum and by the very 

 narrowly-winged column. It flowered for the first time in this 

 country at Chatsworth in 1837, and is named in compliment to the 

 then Duke of Devonshire. 



S. eburnea. 



Scapes usually two- flowered. Flowers ivory-white "with some purple 

 spots on the lip ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2^ inches long ; petals 

 similar but narrower ; lip narrowly oblong in outline, the hypochile boat- 

 shaped, with two horn-like auricles at the base ; the epichile ovate- 

 oblong, sub-acute. Column arching, as long as the lip, with two 

 rounded membraneous wangs above the middle. 



Stanliopea eburnea, Lindl. in BoL Reg. t. 15-29 (1832), and 1813, sub. t. 44. Id. 

 Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 158. Id. Jol. Orch. Stanhopea, No. 19. Bot. Mag. t. 3359. 

 Eclib. Xen. Orch. I. ]). 117. Id. m Walp. Ann. VI. p. 582. Ceratochilus graudiflorus, 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 14H. 



An anomalous species first cultivated by Messrs. Loddiges in 1824, 



to whom it had been sent from Trinidad by Sir Ralph Woodford; 



it was thence the first Stanhopea that was introduced into British 



gardens, A quarter of a century later it was gathered in Surinam 



by Wullschliigel, and in Venezuela by Wagener who sent living plants 



to Europe ; its habitat is therefore along the northern littoral of South 



America. It flowered in Mr. Bateman's collection at Knypersley^ 



near Congleton^ in 1832^ on which occasion it was figured in the 



Botanical Register ; and in the following year it was communicated 



to Sir William Hooker by Messrs. Shepherd^ of Liverpool.* From 



that time to the present it has occasionally appeared in cultivation ; 



our description was taken from a plant that flowered in our houses 



in 1889, whose origin we are unable to trace. Stanliopea eburnea 



is well distinguished by the horn-like appendages springing from 



the base of the lip and not from the middle, and by its long 



boat-shaped hypochile as seen in profile. 



S. ecornuta. 



Scapes short and stoutish, usually two-flowered. Flowers about 

 3 inches across vertically ; sepals and petals cream-white, the latter 

 spotted with purple at the base, all pointing in one direction; the sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, concave ; the petals sub-(piadrate, nuich smaller ; lip 



* In both cases erroneously stated to be of Braiilian origin. 



