392 orchid-grower's manual. 



E. SOPHRONITIS, Bchh.f.— This is a very curious little plant, more curious 

 than beautiful, but yet producing flowers of sufficient size to make it attractive. 

 The rhizome is creeping, from which spring small pseudobulbs some ^ inch long, 

 these are ovoid, and bear on their summit two or three coriaceous leaves, which 

 are oblong-lanceolate, acute, some 3 inches long, and J inch wide, creamy- 

 green on both surfaces, and narrow. Flowers dtill yellow-green, mottled with 

 violet-purple. — Peru. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6314. 



E. STAMFORDIANUM, Batem.-^A handsome spotted-flowered species of very 

 distinct character, being one of the few which produce a radical inflor- 

 escence. It has fusiform pseudobulbs a span long, tapering below into a 

 slender scaly foot-stalk, and terminated by three or four oblong obtuse coriaceous 

 leaves 6 or 7 inches long ; the peduncle rises from the base and bears a large 

 many-flowered panicle of fragrant blossoms which are 1^ inch across, of a bright 

 yellow tinged with green, thickly decorated with blood-red spots, those of the 

 petals being larger and fewer than those on the sepals, while the lip has the 

 lateral lobes creamy-white and the front lobe yellow, the latter being sparingly 

 spotted ; the sepals and petals are lanceolate, the lip three-parted, flat, the lateral 

 lobes large oblong, the middle one transversely oblong, emarginate, and fimbriate; 

 the type is described as having a vivid violet spot at the base of the lip, while in 

 the variety picium there is a crimson line down the centre of that, organ. It 

 blooms in April and May, lasting a considerable time in perfection. There are 

 two varieties of this plant, one having much brighter coloured flowers than the 

 other ; the best form is characterised by having longer and thinner bulbs than 

 the other. 



Fia.—Batom. Orcli. Mcx. et Chiat.,t. 11 ; Klotzscli, in L. K. S,- 0., Ic. PI. Bar. 

 Berol., t. 45 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4759 (j/ictmii) ; Leiii. Jarcl. Fl., t. 251 (jpictwn') ; Veitch's 

 Man. Orcli. PI., vi. p. 119. 



Syn. — H. basilare; M. cycnostalix, fide Echb. 



E. STAMFORDIANUM LEEANUM, iJcM. /.—The late Prof. Reichenbach thus 

 describes this lovely variety in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 520 : — 

 " Mr. W. Lee sends me a lovely variety of this fine plant, in which the sepals and 

 petals are covered with purple hieroglyphic-like markings on an ochre-coloured 

 ground inside, scarcely translucent outside ; the broad lip is of the lightest rose 

 colour, and covered all over with fine purple spots inside. It is very distinct 

 from E. Btcumfordiarmm Wallaeei. It was likewise collected by Mr. Alexander 

 Wallace, who appears to have been singularly fortunate as to this fine species. 

 I very gladly dedicate this very surprising plant to Mr. W. Lee, whose grand 

 collection is so duly praised." 



E. STAMFORDIANUM WALLACEI, iJcM./.— The late Professor Reichenbach 

 describes this variety as follows : — " The mid-lacinia of the lip is obcordate, quite 

 entire, and very narrow; it would also appear that the column is constantly 

 shorter." 



E. STENOPETALUM, JToofc.— This is an extremely beautiful species, and 

 it is also rare, the flowers resemble somewhat at first sight those of Dendro- 

 bium higibhum, but of course their differences arc plainly visible. Stems 

 slender, erect, bearing strap-shaped leaves, which are oblong-acuminate, and 



