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PL. CCCXYV. 
STANHOPEA WARDII topp. var. VENUSTA LinbL. 
Mr WARD'S STANHOPEA, BEAUTIFUL VARIETY. 
STANHOPEA. Sepala libera, patentia, lata vy. oblonga, carnosa, subaequalia v. lateralia latiora. Petala sepalis 
similia v. angustiora, interdum undulata. Labellum basi columnae affixum, continuum vy. vix brevissime ei connatum, 
patens, crasse carnosum, saepe undulatum y. subtortum; lobi laterales unguem marginantes v. erecti, saepe in massam 
solidam incrassati, hypochilium formantes globosum oblongum v. calceiforme, basi interdum bicornutum ; lobus medius 
nunc brevissimus integer ab hypochilio vix distinctus, nunc evolutus continuus v. articulatus, epichilium integrum 
v. trilobum formans, v. basi lobis v. cornubus 2 distinctis mesochilium formantibus instructus. Columna erecta 
v. incurva, saepius longiuscula, apoda, superne v. apice membranaceo-marginata v. bialata; clinandrium breve, 
antice saepius prominule bidentatum v. bicornutum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, convexa v. subglo- 
bosa, unilocularis; pollinia 2, cerea, anguste oblonga, apice attenuata, inappendiculata, anthera dehiscente stipiti 
plano saepius oblongo affixa, glandula squamiformi. Capsula, ubi nota, longe fusiformis. 
Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus brevissimis multivaginatis unifoliatis mox in pseudobulbum carnosum incrassatis. 
Folium plum, plicato-v , in petiolum contractum. Scapi inter pseudobulbos deflexi v. penduli, vaginis 
spathaceis stipati, simplices. Flores magni, in racemo laxo pauci, pedicellati. Bracteae membranaceae, spathaceae, nunc 
pedicellum nunc ovarium ipsum involventes, 
Species ad 20, Americae tropicae a Brasilia usque ad Mexicum incolae. 
Stanhopea Frost ex Hook. Bot. Mag., LVI (1829), tt. 2948-9. — BENTH. et Hook. F. Gen. Plant., III, P- 549- 
Ceratochilus LINDL. in Lopp. Bot. Cab., XV (1828), t. 1414. 
Stanhopea Wardii. Pseudobulbi ovoidei, monophylli a vaginis increscentibus stipati. Folia longe petiolata, 
elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata. Racemus pendulus, pauci multiflorus, plurivaginatus. Bracteae lanceolato-oblongae, 
acutae, quam ovario bene breviores. Sepala subrotundo-oblonga, acuta, concava, lateralia basi alte connata. Petala 
lanceolata, revoluta, sepalis multo minora. Labelli hypochilium exacte oblongum, depressum, sessile, antice intrusum, 
basi utrinque angulatum ; mesochilium bicornutum carnosum, fissum, vix dentatum, cornubus falcatis incurvis ; epichi- 
lium subrotundo-ovatum, integrum. Columna late alata. 
Stanhopea Wardii Lopp. ex. Lindl. Sert. Orch. (1838), t. 20. — LinpL. Fol. Orch. Stanhop., p. 3. — 
Bot. Mag., t. 5289. — KN. et Westc. Fl. Cab., Il, p. 181, t. go. — Rcup. F. in Walp, Ann., VI, p. 588. — 
Ip, Xen Orch., I, p. 122. 
S. aurea Lopp. ex. Lindl. Bot. Reg., XXVII, Misc., p. 11. 
S. amaena KLorzscu in Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gartenz., XX (1852), p. 273. 
S. inodora var. amaena LinpL. Fol. Orch. Stanhop., p. 2. 
Var. venusta. Flores aurei, concolori. 
Var. venusta LINDL. Fol. Orch., Stanhop., p. 4 (in nota). 
tanhopea Wardii was originally described more than half a century ago, 
| from a specimen sent to England from La Guayra by Mr Warp, 
Kasse) which flowered with Messrs Loppicrs, of Hackney. It also flowered 
about the same time with Mr Barker, of Birmingham, the plant being obtained 
from Messrs Low & C°, of Clapton. It is closely allied to S. Ruckeri Linot., 
but that species has the hypochile distinctly narrowed at the base, without 
lateral teeth, a very strong inflexed tooth in which the wider fissure of the 
mesochile terminates, and paler colour. The latter character, however, taken 
by itself, is not absolute, for there are forms of S. Wardii with pallid segments 
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