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PL. CCCXXXVI. 
STANHOPEA EBURNEA uunpt. 
THE IVORY-LIKE STANHOPEA. 
STANHOPRA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p- 9. 
Stanhopea eburnea. Pseudobulbi conico-ovoidei, monophylli. Folia petiolata, late elliptico-lanceolata, breviter 
acuminata. Scapi penduli, biflori, vaginis ovatis acutis tecti, Bracteae ovato-oblongae, acutae, circa 4 cm, longae. 
Ovarium 5-10 cm. longum, Sepalum posticum oblongo-lanceolatum, subobtusum, circa 7 cm. longum; sepala lateralia 
semiovato-oblonga, caeteris similia. Petala lineari-lanceolata , sepalis angustiora. Labellum lineari-oblongum , non 
medio constrictum, hypochilio pone basin bicorni, epichilio ovato-oblongo obtuso, mesochilio duplo longiori solido 
plano-convexo antice truncato-bidentato. Columna 6-7 cm. longa, apice bialata. 
Stanhopea eburnea LinpL. Bot. Reg., XVIII (1832), t. 1529. — Ip. Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 158. — Bot. Mag., 
£. 3359. — Lin. Fol. Orch. Stanhop., p. 8. — Ill. Hort., XIV, t. 531 (var. spectabilis). — Rew. F. in Walp. 
Ann., VI, p. 584. —Ip., Xen. Orch., I, p. 117. 
S. grandiflora LinpL. Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 158. — Ip. Fol. Orch. Stanhop., p. 7. — Maund Botanist, IV, 
t.:176, 
Ceratochilus grandiflorus Lopp. Bot. Cab., XV, t. 1414. 
‘tanhopea eburnea was originally described and figured in the Botanical 
| Register, in 1832, from the rich collection of James Bateman, Esq., of 
Knypersley Hall, near Congleton. It was said to be a native of Rio 
Janeiro, and to have been originally imported by Messrs Loppices, of Hackney. 
It was compared with the Ceratochilus grandifiorus of the Botanical Cabinet, a native 
of Trinidad, from which it was thought to differ in the size of the flowers and 
certain details of the lip, which, however, Reicuenzacn and others have shown 
cannot be relied on, and the two plants have therefore been united as forms of 
one and the same species. As thus understood, the species appears to have a 
rather wide range, for it also occurs in Surinam, British Guiana and Venezuela. 
It is said to be common in the neighbourhood of the Demerara River. It is very 
easily distinguished from every other species by the form of the lip. Its nearest 
ally is the Nicaraguan S. cirrhata Linpu., next which it was placed by Retcuen- 
BACH, when monographing the genus. S. cirrhata, however, has far smaller 
flowers, with a very different lip and column. 
R. A. Rotre. 
