152 THE ORCHID REVIEW. _ (Jury-Aveusr, 1918, 
4 STANHOPEA EBURNEA. (AS 
ERLE 
Cc E Stanhopeas are among the most remarkable of summer-blooming 
Orchids, being both quaint in habit and floral structure, and their flowers 
are large and striking, though not lasting long in perfection. The species 
are now rather numerous, and the one here figured is believed to have been 
the first to be introduced to British gardens, having been sent to Messrs. 
Fig. 16. STANHOPEA EBURNEA. 
Loddiges from Trinidad, in 1824, by Sir Ralph Woodford. The species was 
afterwards introduced from Brazil, Guiana, and Venezuela, and there are 
also records from Columbia, and Peru, which, if correct, give the species 4 
very wide diffusion. Messrs. Veitch speak of the Brazilian records as 
erroneous, but according to Mr. E. S, Rand it is one of the common 
Amazonian Orchids that flourished in his garden at Para. The flowers are 
