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horns, and the epichil being ovate entire. There are many varieties, most of 

 which are very sweet-scented. One called LINDLEYI has the flowers dull wine- 

 red and but little spotted, and is probably the same as S. oculata BarJceriana. 

 The species blooms from July to November. — Mexico. 



Fia.—JBot. jl/a.7., t. 5300; Bot. Jteg.,t. 1800; Lodd. Bot. Cab.,t.\lQi; Gartenflora 

 t. 189 (civced) ; Lindini'm, vi. t. 256. 



Syn. — Ceratocldlus uoulatus ; S. gitttulata. 



S. PLATYCERAS, Rchh.f. — This handsome plant was iirst flowered in the 

 collection of the late John Day, Esq., of Tottenham, in 1867. The flowers are 

 deep orange, spotted, and ocellated with purple ; hypochil maroon-purple, 

 paler at the base, where it is spotted with purple ; mesochil and epichil white 

 or yellowish-white spotted with reddish-purple. — Netu Grenada. 



Vm.—Itefng. Bot., ii. t. 108 ; The Garden, 188S, xxxiii. p. 534. t. 652.- 

 S. RADIOSA.— See S. saccata. 



S. SACCATA, Batem. — A very old species, introduced as far back as 18.36. 

 " Flowers greenish-yellow regularly speckled but nqt blotched with brown ; 

 deep yellow at the base, small ; sepals and petals turned completely back on 

 the ovary; hypochil very deep and incurved, mesochil reduced to a space 

 sufficient for the development of two broad flat horns ; epichil oval three-lobed; 

 bracts shortened." — Guatemala. 



FlQ.—L'IU. I-Iort., viii. t. 270. 

 Syn. — S. radiosa. 



S. SHUTTLEWORTHII, Rchh.f. — A desirable and interesting species, with 

 apricot-coloured flowers having dark purplish blotches at the basilar portions 

 of the sepals, petals, and lip, anterior part of lip yellowish- white ; the flowers 

 are produced on a lax pendent raceme. This species was discovered by Mr. 

 Shuttleworth, when collecting for Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea. — New Grenada. 



Fie. — Reicheniachia, i. t. 35. 



S. SPINDLERIANA, Kranzlin. — Being the first hybrid Stanhopea obtained, 

 this plant is of considerable, interest to lovers of this class of plants. It is inter- 

 mediate between its parents 8. oculata and 8. tigrina, and was raised by Herr 

 Weber, head gardener to Herr Spindler, of Spindlersf eld, Germany, to whom it is 

 dedicated. The sepals and petals are greenish-yellow covered with large spots 

 of a purplish-maroon, and one large deep maroon-purple spot at the base of 

 each segment. — Garden hybrid. 



'Fia.— Gaiietiflora, 1890, t. 1335. 



S. TIGRINA, Baienum. — The handsomest of the species, and the most 

 attractive, whether its strange form, singular markings, or powerful odour arc 

 concerned ; the latter has been compared to a mixture of Melon and Vanilla. 

 The pseudobulbs are ovate, furrowed, and support a large broadly lanceolate 

 deep green plaited leaf ; the peduncle supports a pendent raceme of three or 

 four very large flowers, 8 inches in diameter, deep orange-yellow, the sepals 



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