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STANHOPEA EBURNEA. 
TuE annexed figure represents the fine old Stanhopea eburnea, reproduced 
from a photograph kindly sent by Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, 
Dorking. This species has long been known in cultivation, having been 
originally described by Lindley in 1832 (Bot. Reg., XVill., t. 1529) from a 
plant imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Rio de Janeiro, which flowered 
in the collection of James Bateman, Esq., of Knypersley. Four years 
previously, a plant which had been sent to Messrs. Loddiges, from 
Fic. 10. STANHOPEA EBURNEA. 
Trinidad, by Sir R. Woodford, had been figured as Ceratochilus 
Standiflorus (Lodd. Bo!. Cab., -t. 1414), and this subsequently became 
Stanhopea grandiflora (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch., p- 158), being thought 
distinct from S. eburnea, but both afterwards appeared among Trinidad 
importations, and proved to be forms of the same species (Maund Bot., \v., 
t 176). It has since proved to be widely diffused, having been collected in 
British Guiana, Venezuela, and more recently in the Andes of N. Peru, by 
