STANHOPEA. 



llO 



It has since been gathered in Gaatemala, and one of our collectors 

 affirms with confidence that he gathered this same species on the 

 eastern Cordillera of New Granada at some distance north of Bogota; 

 its geographical range is therefore considerable. The flowers are 

 somewhat variable in colour, and some of the sub -varieties have 

 received distinctive names, as lutescens, nigro-violacea, etc. 



Stanhopea Wardii. 



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S. Wardii. 



Scapes robust, 12 — 15 inches long, pale glaucous green spotted with 

 dull crimson, 5 — 7 flowered. Flowers large and fragrant ; sepals and 

 petals golden yellow sometimes spotted with red-purple, the sepals 

 elliptic-oblong, acute, concave ; the petals much narrower, ligulate, acute ; 



