258 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A female of Cycnoches pentadactylon has also appeared in the same 
collection, where males only have been produced on former occasions. Its 
history and a figure are given on pages 73 and 162. This genus is also 
deserving of more attention. It is strange that no one has re-introduced 
the beautiful C. aureum, from Chiriqui. Now that their cultivation is better 
understood, this should be attempted. ? 
STANHOPEA INODORA AND S. GRAVEOLENS. 
Stanhopeas are not exactly popular garden plants, though many of the 
species are scattered about in various collections. Their flowers are both — 
large and handsome, though rather too fleeting. Stanhopea inodora was 
described and figured by Lindley nearly fifty years ago, but that author did 
not preserve a flower, and the species was soon lost sight of. Even 
Reichenbach never appears to have known it, for what he describes and 
figures under this name is S. graveolens, Lindl. The true plant has, 
however, again appeared in cultivation, in the collection of W. C. Walker, 
Esq., Percy Lodge, Winchmore Hill, whose gardener, Mr. G. Cragg, states 
that it was received from Mexico. This circumstance affords an opportunity 
to point out the confusion into which it has fallen. It was originally 
imported from Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, with whom it 
flowered in June, 1843. The sepals and petals are of the lightest whitist 
yellow, and the lip ivory white, with the lower half of the hypochil yellow” 
and a more or less clearly defined purple-brown blotch on either side. 
S. graveolens was described in 1840, from a plant which flowered in the 
collection of the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, said to have been purses” 
from Mr. ‘late, who imported it from Peru. In later accounts the habitat 
is given as “ Guatemala ? ” though without any explanation for the change 
Lietz, however, has since collected it in Brazil, from which it seems proba 
that it is a native of the adjacent parts of Peru and Brazil. In colour it 
more yellow ; but it is always very easily distinguished by the presence” 
a large sac underneath the hypochil, as in S. Devoniana, 
flowers are also powerfully fragrant, while in S. inodora I 
Lindley stated, practically scentless. 
Here is the amended synonymy of the two species :— 
¥. Stanhopea inodora, Lodd., ex. Lind/. Bot. Reg., xxi. t. 65 ; #d: 
p. 2. Native of Mexico. : 6 
2. Stanhopea graveolens, Lind/. Bot. Re wvi., Afisc. » id, xxKiny SUD ES 
, : ~ Reg. xxvi., Misc, p. 59 5 4 ’ ee 
Fo i. Orch. Stanhop., p. 4; Fl. d. Serres, tt. 69, 70, Gartenflora, xl., P. 201, t 1345 
Lietzei, Regel). S. inodora, Rchd. f, Xen. Orch, ii. p. 157, t. 165 (non Lindl.) ia 
R. Ae 
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