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Stauropsis. 



S. lissochiloides (Bt. '////.). — This is a plant of erect, stately 

 habit, attaining a height of 4ft. to 5ft. The stem is lin. in 

 diameter, and from it the white, long, singularly thick roots 

 proceed. The leaves are remarkably thick and rigid, channelled, 

 pale green, and about 2 It. long. The spike is tall and erect, and 

 bears (according to a plant which flowered at Kew) from twenty 

 to thirty wax-like blooms ; these are 2Tiin. across, with golden- 

 yellow sepals and petals, freely spotted with brownish-crimson ; 

 on the outside they assume a purplish hue ; the lip is purple- 

 crimson. This species is a native of the Moluccas. It flowered 

 for the first time in this country in June, 1S46, with Mr. Bate- 

 man. The flowering period extends over three months. Small 

 plants do not flower freely. Svn. J'anda Baiiiiiannii. (B. R., 

 1S46, t. 59.) 



STELIS. 



Swartz stands sponsor for this large genus of incon- 

 spicuous epiph}-tal Orchids belonging to the tribe 

 Epidciidrca:. The name is the old Greek one gi\-en bj' 

 Theophrastus for some parasitical plant. Flowers minute, 

 shortly pedicellate, in terminal, elongated racemes, rarely 

 sub-distichous ; sepals spreading, more or less connate ; 

 petals much shorter, broad, with thickened margins, often 

 nearly including the column and lip ; lip sessile at the 

 base of the column, resembling the petals, or narrowed, or 

 occasionally three-lobed ; pollen-masses two. The species, 

 which inhabit tropical America, require similar cultural 

 conditions to Masdcvallia ; the\' are not often found in 

 culti\-ation. 



STENIA. 



Under the above name is found a genus of warm-house 

 epiphytal Orchids belonging to the tribe Vaudctc. The 

 name, given by Lindley, is from stciios, narrow ; in allusion 

 to the form of the pollen-masses. Flowers rather large ; 

 sepals of equal length, spreading, the lateral ones rather 

 broader, adnate at base to the foot of the rather thick, erect 

 column ; petals similar to the dorsal sepal ; lip continuous 

 with the foot of the column, fleshy, broad, nearly saccate, 

 the lateral lobes small, the middle one undivided, or 



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