AXn THE IK MAXAGE-MEyr. 



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Stanhopea. 



red spots. It IS ditticult to convey any idea of the extraordinary 

 form and rich colouring of the flowers of this species. Sonic- 

 times the scape is two-flowered. Introduced from Colombia b)' 

 Messrs. Low and Co., and first flowered by Mr. Day in 1S67. 

 (Ref. Bot., t. loS.) 



5. tig"rina {Batent.). — One of the most striking of all Orchids : 

 its huge, strangely-formed blossoms, the thick, waxy consistence 

 of the lip and column, the singular colours of the flowers, and 

 the powerful fragrance they exhale, being a combination of 



Fig. 163. Flowers of .Stanhopea tigrixa 

 (much reduced). 



characters of a very extraordinary nature. The pseudo-bulbs 

 and leaves are dark green, the latter being broad and about gin. 

 long. The pendulous scape is clothed with large, boat-shaped, 

 thin, brown bracts, which remain after the flowers have opened. 

 The waxy, fragrant flowers are fully 6in. across. The sepals are 

 almost as broad as long, concave : and the petals are much 

 narrower and wavy — the colour of both being dingy yellow, with 

 large blotches of dull purple, sometimes a single irregular blotch 

 e.xtending over two-thirds of the entire sepal. The cavity of the 

 lip is broad and short; the horns are about lin. in leuL^th, and 



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