1 1 G STANHOPEA. 



long, broad at the base, tapering into slender cirri at the apex ; epichile 



narrowly oblong, tridentate at the apex, both mesochile and epichile 



ivor^'-white. Colnmn wingless, white spotted with purple. 



Stanhopea Martiana, Bitem. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 109. Id. Orch. Mex. d 

 Guat. t. 27. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844 t. 44. Id. Fol. Orch. Stanhopea, No. 12. 

 Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 119. Id. in Walp, Ann. VI. p, 586. A"an Houtte's Fl. des 

 Serves, XX. t. 2112. 



Discovered by Karwinsky in Mexico, in 1837, and communicated 



by liini to Mr. Bateman, in whose collection at Knypersley it flowered 



in May, 1840 ; it was shortly afterwards sent to Mr. Richard Harrison, 



of Liverpool, by Galeotti. As the botanical collections of these two 



explorers were made chiefly in the neighbourhood of Oaxaca, the 



richest orchid district in Mexico, the habitat of the plant may be 



assumed to be in tbat district. Tbe species is dedicated to the late 



Professor Martins, of Munich, one of the earliest botanical explorers 



of the Amazon region of Brazil ; it is well distiuguisbed by the 



cirri-like apices of tbe mesochile, the long narrow epicbile and the 



downy and almost wingless column. 



S. oculata. 



Scape 5 — 7 flowered. Flowers 5 inches across vertically, very 

 odoriferous, and very variable in colour ; sepals broadly ovate, acute, 

 concave, the lateral two broader than the dorsal one, sometimes pale 

 yellow with numerous ocellated red spots, sometimes with few spots 

 and more rarely wholly white; petals ligulate, much smaller, thinner 

 in texture, and with the spots more scattered than on the sepals or 

 entirely absent ; lip narrowly oblong in outline ; the hypochile boat- 

 shaped, the basal half light orange-yellow with two blackish lateral 

 spots, the anterior half white spotted Avith red but sometimes destitute 

 of spots ; horns of mesochile first erect and then slightly bent iuAvards 

 and forwards, much acuminated; epichile cordate, acute, concave, both 

 mesochile and epichile ivory-Avliite, the latter sometimes spotted with 

 purple, Column sub-terete, bent, with two rounded wings above the 

 middle, greenish or wdiite spotted -s^dth red but sometimes without spots. 



Stanhopea ociUata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p 1.58 (1832). Id. in BoL Beg. t. 

 1800 ; and 1843, sub. t. 44. Id. Fol. Orch. Stanhopea, No. 4. Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. 

 p. 120. Regel's Gartenfl. IV. t. 89 fcrocea). Bot. Mag. t. 5300. Lindenia, VI. 

 t. 256. Ceratochilus oculatus, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1764. 



A very handsome species, first imported in 1829 by Messrs. 



Loddiges from Xalapa in Mexico through Deppe. It flowered in 



tbeir nursery in June, 1831, and three years later in Mr. Bateman's 



collection at Knypersley. It was shortly afterwards sent from 



Guatemala by Mr. G. Ure Skinner to Mr, Harris, of Kingsbury, 



