OcrToRER, 1906.) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
STANHOPEA EBURNEA, 
It is unfortunate that the flowers of the genus Stanhopea are so fugacious, 
for many of them are very haudsome, while few Orchids are more remark- 
able in structure. Their habit is also peculiar, for the pendulous spikes 
almost necessitate their being grown in shallow baskets, through which 
they can push, and it is curious to see a cluster of such large and remark- 
able flowers hanging beneath the receptacle in which they are grown, with- 
out any apparent connection with the plant above. That they are epiphytes 
‘i 2 I A EBURNEA. 
Fig. 42. STANHOPE 
the spikes beneath the 
goes wi ing ir habit of suspending 
$0es without saying, and their ha P so confirmed that 
ite toe : 
branches of the trees on which they grow has becom “ 
In some cases, however, 
eey ar onge > any other way- 
are no | r able to grow any ate 
t. as in the one now figured, 
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the spikes come through the sides of the baske are shite flowers. It 
which takes its name of Stanhopea eburnea from its shi’: a described by 
has been known for a long time in cultivation, having been 5 
i f James 
Lindley in 1832, from a plant which flowered 1n the collection of J 
