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STAUROPSIS LISSOCHILOIDES prrrz. 
LISSOCHILUS-LIKE STAUROPSIS. 
STAUROPSIS. Vide Lindenia, VII, p. 65. 
Stauropsis lissochiloides. Foliis ensiformibus emarginatis, racemo multifloro-terminali brevioribus, sepalis peta- 
lisque oblongis obtusis, labello oblongo canaliculato apice uncinato. 
Epiphyta, rhizomate repenti articulato. Folia longa, ensiformia, coriacea, emarginata, 12-15 unc. longa. Scapus 
terminalis, simplex, 1-3 petalis. Spica multiflora, Flores speciosi, lutei, purpureo maculati. Bracteae breves, ovatae, 
rigidae. Sepala et petala aequalia, oblonga, obtusa. Labellum oblongum, apice uncinatum, canaliculatum, basi saccatum 
et utrinque lobis duobus parvis ascendentibus instructum. Caudicula cuneata. Glandula maxima, hamata. 
Stauropsis lissochiloides Peitz., Vergl. Morph. Orch., 14. — CoGNn. Fourn. des Orch., I, p. 271. — L. Lin. 
Les Orch. exot., p. 962, cum ic. 
Vanda lissochiloides LINDL., Gen. ef Sp. Orch., p. 216. — BLuMg&, Rumphia, IV, p. 41, pl. 194. 
Vanda Batemani LinDL., Bot. Reg., 1846, pl. 59. — Ip., Fol. Orch., Vanda, no 1. — VAN Hourte, FI. des 
Serres, XVIII, t. 1921-2. 
Fieldia lissochiloides GaupIcH., Voyage, p. 424, pl. 36. — Rens. F., Xen. Orch., II, p. 38. — Ip., WALP. 
Ann., VI, p. 870. 
tauropsis lissochiloides, better known as Vanda Batemani, was first 
detected by the french botanist GaupicHaup, when travelling on the 
) Urame (1817-1820), and described by this author in 1826 as Fieldia 
lissochiloides. BentuaM referred the genus Fieldia to RetcHenBacu’s Stauropsis, 
in 1881, but preserved the latter name, although more recent, the name Fieldia 
already belonging to a genus of Gesneriaceae. 
Firstly discovered by Gaupicuaup in an island of the Moluccas archipelago, 
Stauropsis lissochiloides was also found by Buume in the small Bali island, near 
Java; it was introduced in 1841 by Cuminc, who collected it in the Philippine 
islands, and flowered for the first time in 1846, in the collection of Mr. Bateman, 
after whom it was named by Linp.ey in the Botanical Register, as Vanda Batemant. 
In its native countries, S. lissochiloides grows on bare rocks and on the 
tall trees. It is a giant species, with a stout stem, 6-7 feet high, and spreading, 
or slightly deflexed leaves, 18 to 24 inches long, very rigid and leathery. The 
scapes are erect, longer than the leaves, and bear a number of flowers, which 
keep fresh a very long time. 
It is one of the most ornamental plants of the indian house, and when 
placed at the centre of a stage, at the back of a group of Vanda or Angraecum, 
it produces a very handsome and stately effect. 
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