STANHOPEA IKSIGNIS. 



722 oechid-gkowee's manual. 



the spots being many of them ocellate ; the lip is whitish spotted with purple, 

 the hypochil being in addition deeply stained with purple; the hypochil is 

 globose, split in front, the mesoohil bears falcate incurved horns, and the epichil 

 is roundish ovate entire ; the column is remarkable for its broad winged margin. 

 The flowers are produced in August and September. There is a variety named 



FLAVA by Dr. Lindley which has yellowish 

 flowers, and is unusually sweet-scented. 

 — Brazil. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., tt. 2948-9 ; JSot. Beg., 

 t. 1837 ; Lodd. Boi. Cab., t. 1985 ; Relhb. Fl. 

 Exot., t. 265 ; Xciim Orch., ii. t. 164 ; IIooli. 

 First Cent. Orch. PL, t. 58 ; Xindenia, viii. t. 352. 



S. LOWII, Bolfe.—A very desirable 

 species, introduced by Messrs. Low & 

 Co., after whoin it is named. Sepals and 

 petals pale buff, the latter having many 

 small brown spots on the disk; lip ivory white, having a large number 

 of small purple spots which are arranged in bands. It is said to be allied to 

 8. eburnea. Sweet scented. — New Grenada. 



'^m.— Gard. Chron., 3rcT ser., 1893, xiv. p. 689, f. 107 ; Orchid Betiew, i. p. 177, f . 12. 



S. MARTIANA, Batem. — ^A magnificent species, quite distinct in character 

 and appearance. The pseudobulbs are ovate and furrowed, the leaves lanceo- 

 late plicately venose, and the peduncles two-flowered ; the sepals are very pale 

 straw-coloured sparingly marked with small vinous spots, the petals white 

 with larger spots, and a broad blotch of crimson at the base of each, and the lip 

 white ; the hypochil is short, scrotiform, the mesochil short with cirrhose 

 horns, the epichil oblong-linear, obscurely three-toothed, and the column 

 pubescent. It blooms during the autumn. — Mexico. 



¥10,.— Batem. Orch. fit J/cr. Guat., tt. 1, 27 ; Bot. Beg., 1843, t. 44 (hieolor') ; Moore, 

 III. Orch. PI. (Stanhopea'), t. 5 ; Flore des Serres, tt. 2112-3 ; Ann. de Gand. t. 163 

 (velata"). 



Syn. — S. implicata ; S. xelata. 



S. MOLIANA, Rolfe. — This new species is allied to S. Buckeri, S. Wardi, 

 and 8. Haselowiana. It has yellowish-white sepals irregularly spotted with 

 reddish-purple, some of these spots being ring-shaped; the petals are white 

 with larger spots of a darker tint of the same colour as these on the sepals ;' the 

 lip is white, the hypochil and the anterior part of the epichil are covered with 

 a number of small reddish-purple spots. — Peru. 



Fia. — Lindenia, vii. t. 331. 



S. OCULATA, lAndl. — A free-flowering and extremely showy species. It 

 has small ovate furrowed pseudobulbs,eaoh of which bears at the top a large 

 broadly lanceolate nervose leaf, and from the base a peduncle supporting half 

 a dozen large and handsomely spotted blossoms in a drooping raceme ; the 

 flowers are of a lemon-yellow, the sepals covered with a large number of lilac 

 spots, often annular, the petals less thickly spotted, the centre yellow, with two or 

 sometimes four large blackish-brown patches on the side of the hypochil, which 

 is elongately boat-shaped, as if unguiculate, the mesochil having two fleshy 



