THE ORCHID REVIEW. 209 
STANHOPEA WARDII 
THE accompanying illustration represents an inflorescence of Stanhopea 
Wardii from the collection of J. W. Arkle, Esq., of West Derby, Liverpool. 
The plant was bought as newly imported about 12 months ago, and is 
believed to have been sent home by a collector who was in search of 
Cattleya Mendelii, though the exact district is uncertain, for, owing to the 
revolution out there, the collector’s movements are said to have been some- 
what erratic. The photograph was taken by Miss Arkle, and represents the 
inflorescence as protruding from the bottom of the basket, the upper part 
of the plant not being included. 
Fic. 30. STANHOPEA WarDU. 
The species was originally figured and described in Lindley’s Sertum 
Orchidaceum (t. 20), from a plant which flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, of 
Hackney, the author remarking that it was sent to England from La 
Cynayra, Venezuela, by Mr. Ward, after whom it was named by Messrs. 
Loddiges. Shortly afterwards it flowered with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., 
and with George Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, the latter being figured in 
Westcott & Knowle’s Floral Cabinet (ii. t. go). Messrs. Loddiges also 
named a plant Stanhopea aurea, which was described by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 
1841, Misc., p. 11), with the remark that it came from Guatemala. It had 
