STANHOPEA. (8) ECORNUTA. 
cato eae tridentato, epichilio ovato duplo breviore, columna 
longissim 
Ceratochilus grandiflorus. Loddiges, Botanical Cabinet, t, 1414. 
Wild in a. (v. v. ¢.) 
Flowers full six inches in diameter when expanded, very fragrant ; their 
— ase whites bern the hypochil, and some dots on the mesochil, "which 
eae sitar Lindley, in Bot. Reg., t. 1529; LO., p. 
158 ; Bot Mag., t 
capo laxo eats bracteis ovario brevioribus, labello 
shisapo petalis duplo longiore, hypochilio ovali utrinque in medio 
margine cornu recurvo instructo, mesochilio solido mutico 
truncato, epichilio ovato zquilongo, columna longissimé 
Wild in See near — Janeiro—Loddiges, (v. v. 5 
Flow than in S. grandiflora, of which it — well be regarded 
as a variety: et fae = it anime differs in the opening of the h Leesa 
being oval not circular, and furnished with two lateral ‘slender recurved 
i f two 
« 
* 20. S.ecornuta. Lemaire, in Flore des Serres, 181, Dec. 
1846. Parton's Flower Garden ; gleanings, no. 54, ic. 20. 
S. scapo brevi Sapen bracteis ovario brevioribus, sepalis 
etalisque minoribus ovatis obtusis carnosis concavis, labello 
tedekitorind obtusissimo ecornuto ye a antico tuberculato, 
columna brevissimo carnoso sinuato-ala’ 
Wild in central kucuc Wace 
This curious plant differs from all other known Stanhopeas, in ha 
front.” “The flowers, which grow in pairs, are about four and a half inches 
across, and have very short bracts.” Is it not a monster of some kind ; for 
Seclanos, of Suahoped amar? 
