114 STAN HO PEA. 



calceolate, ventricose at the base and beneath, thickened in front into 



three rounded protuberances, yellow deepening to dark orange at the 



base and on the inside.* Column semi-terete with two fleshy rounded 



wings, yellow. 



Stanhopea ecornuta, Lemaire in Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, IT. pi. 181 (1846). 

 Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. I. No. 54, icon. xyl. Id. Fol. Orch. Stanhopea, No. 20. 

 Echb. in Bet. Zeit. X. p. 836 (1852). Id. Xen. Orch. I. p. 124, t. 43. Id. in Walp. 

 Ann. YI. p. 583. Stanhopeastnim ecornutum, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. X. p. 927 (1852). 



An aberrant species differing from every other Stanhopea in its 

 much simpHfied labellum, which consists of bhe hypochile only ; in 

 its shorter cohimn with thickened wings ; and in the fleshy texture 

 of the sepals, which when first expanded assume a different position. 

 It was at first regarded by Lindley as a monstrous state of some 

 other species, a view that was dispelled by the constancy of the 

 plants that subsequently flowered. A new genus was proposed for 

 it by Eeichenbach under the name of Stanhopeastrum, but this he 

 soon after abandoned and restored it to Stanhopea, of which it is 

 the most archaic form that has yet been discovered. 



StanJiopea ecornuta, so called from the absence of the horns of the 

 labellum, was discovered by Warscewicz in the forests around San 

 Toma in Guatemala, in 1845 ; it was introduced into European 

 gardens in the following year through him by Van Houtte of 

 Ghent. 



S. graveolens. 



Scapes usually two-flowered. Flowers powerfully odorous ; sepals and 

 petals at first greenish white passing into straw-yellow ; the sepals 

 ovate-oLlong, acute, concave and spreading ; the petals much narrower, 

 ovate-lanceolate, reflexed, luidulate at the margin ; hypochile of lip 

 saccate approaching cymbiform, deep apricot-yellow ; horns of mesochile 

 curved outwards and inwards, much attenuated at the apex, ivory- 

 white ; epichile ovate, acute, concave, ivory - white sometimes dotted 

 with purple. Column broad, winged to near the base, the wings 

 terminating in points that extend a little beyond the apex of the anther. 



Stanhopea graveolens, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 125 ; and 1845, sub. t. 65. 

 Id. Fol. Orch. Stanhopea, No. 8. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serrcs, Aug. 1846, jjI. I. 

 and II. Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 122. 



This was cultivated by Dean Herbert in 1840, who had acquired 

 by purchase a plant whose origin was unknown. A few years later 

 the species appeared in several collections, both British and Con- 

 tinental, the plants being supposed to have been imported from 



* Four small gibbosities, two at the base and two at the apex, indicate the rudiments of the 

 aborted horns. 



