LAXIFLORA. (3) STANHOPEA. 
Flowers sweet-scented, pale yellow, variously spotted and d 
The lip is deep yellow, and — Ss on ee while t the be, 
iad Soles ae thickly son gthened taro detvin-beakabapet h re it, and wth te 
short ovaries, the effect of which is to ie ae the Someenenas ery war narrow. : 
§ 2. psi MersocuIniuM cornutuM.  EpicnHinium 
BRACTEH OVARIO MULTO eres RES 
* 4. “hae a LO., no. 5; Bot. Reg., ¢. 1800. 
S. bracteis ovariis long’ acuminatis a brevioribus, hypo- 
‘chilio unguiculato elongato cymbiformi anticé intruso basi 
ecorni intus levi extis ‘picarinato, mesochilio bicorni carnoso 
aperté sulcato mutico, epichiho ovato integro, a semitere- 
tibus me et acutis, columna laté alata. 
Ceratochilus oculatus. Loddiges, Bot. Cub., t. 1764, 
so Flowers vs clear he variously speckled, with a pair of circular brown 
otches on 
a. ) Lindl eyi, Zuccarini. Fowers dull wine-red, but little spotted. 
Id in Mextco—Karwinski, Loddiges, Lord Derby’s Col- 
lector, (v. v. ¢.) 
Flowers usually sie atelgnaay with a large number of lilac spots on the 
sepals, a smaller number on the petals, a deep yellow eye, and two, or occa- 
sionally four, large dar! aes spots on the side of the hypochil, which is ve 
i i i it i 
varyin: 
looks like S. insignis with the ie of 2 coda sis ee wane ct the 
wi 
ovaries give the spikes a very yong sppemines , and make them easy to 
distinguish, 
* 5. 8. guttulata. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. 116. 
S. bracteis ovario. multd brevioribus, sepalo supremo oblongo 
concavo apice 
mesochilio bicorni ‘aperté suleato & latere compresso dente valido 
reflexo, _epichilio ovato longiore, cornubus teretibus apiculatis, 
columné apice tanttim abrupteé alat 
S. graveolens. Morren, Ann. Gand., ii. t. 54. 
Uh eee ae «AM. @0.) 
Fl th ll for the genus, of a clear very pale nankin colour, closely 
covered over with small crimson and brown spots and dots, even up to the 
tip of the labellum. It is mere poaiel te & otelee ee ae dis- 
i a ribet fleshy flowers, narrower hypochil, mesochil with — 
reflexed tooth at the base, and the column as abruptly winged as in 
S. insign insignis. 
* 6. S. Wardii. _Loddiges, in Lindl. Sert. Orch., t. 20. 
S. bracteis ovariis longé acuminatis duplo brevioribus, hypo- 
chilio exacté oblongo depresso sea aaiaes Tose oro. bes utrinque 
