STANHOPEA. 



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S. TIGRINA LUTESCENS, Williams.— T^YAs is a fine variety, with tlie very 

 large and handsome flowers of brilliant yellow, inclining to orange, and barred 

 with deep chocolate. It blooms at the same time as 8. tigrina, smd makes a 

 grand plant for exhibition on account of its bold showy flowers. — Guatemala ; 

 Ghiriqui; New Grenada. 



S. TIGRINA NIGRO-VIOLACEA, Jlforreii.— This variety has the whole flower 

 deep brown-purple except the edges of the sepals and petals and the upper half 

 of the lip, and is very handsome. 



¥10,.— Ann. de Gaud, i. t. 21. 



S. VELATA.-See S. Martiana. 



S. WARDII, Loddiges. — One of the most beautiful of the species, remarkable 

 for its brilliancy, and for the delicious sweetness of its flower.s. It has oblong- 

 ovate furrowed pseudobulbs, broad acuminate plicate leaves, and drooping 

 racemes of several showy flowers, of which the sepals and petals are golden- 

 yellow dotted with purple over great part of 

 their surface, and the lip is pale yellow, with 

 two large dark velvety purple spots on the 

 deep yellow oblong depressed hypoohil, re- 

 flecting a silvery light as if frosted ; the 

 mesochil has two fleshy horns dotted with 

 purple, and the epichil is roundish ovate 

 acute with two semi-terete falcate sub-cirrhose 

 horns, also thickly spotted with purple. — 

 Gtux,tetnala. 



Fm.—S<-rtU'm Oi-ch., t. 2U ; Hot. Mag., t. 5289 ; 

 Knowles 4' Wcistc. Floral Cah.. t. 90 ; VcituKs Man. 

 Orcli. PI., ix. p. 119. 



S. WARDII AUREA, £;ucZ?e!/.— A very beau- 

 tiful variety, resembling the type in its 

 general characters, but having flowers of a 

 deep orange-yellow, the hypochil bearing two 

 dark spots "which are in some manner lost 

 in the flood of yellow that surrounds them " ; 

 they are borne during the summer and autumn months. The brilliant 

 colour of the large fragrant blossoms should secure for it a place wherever 

 there is sufiicient space. — Guatemala. 



Syn. — S. aurea. 



S. WARDII VENUSTA, Lindl. — A distinct variety, having the segments 

 entirely orange-yellow without any spots ; the hypochil and epichil of the same 

 colour, covered with minute purple dots, as is likewise the whitish column. 



Fig. — Limlcn/ii, vii. t. 315, 



St A UEO GLOTTIS.— Sec Phalaen-qpsis hosea. 



ST.V5H0PEA WAEDII. 



STATJEiOPSIS. — Sec Tkiciioglottis and Vanda Baiejiasii. 



