208 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
PHAIUS BICOLOR VAR. OWENIZ. 
On April 24th last, Messrs. F. Sander ard Co., St. Albans, received an 
Award of Merit for a very pretty dark coloured Phaius, under the name of 
P. Oweniz, which was obviously allied to P. bicolor, Lindl., a native of 
Ceylon. They must have received it some considerable time ago, having 
used it as the seed parent of P. x Owenianus, a handsome hybrid which 
received a First-class Certificate at the recent Temple Show, P. Humblotii 
being the other parent. Singularly enough a plant has flowered in the 
collection of Mr. W. C. Parkes, Llanberis, Robinson Road, Lower Tooting, 
which is known to have come with certain other bulbs from Ceylon, a 
circumstance which suggests that island as the habitat of the plant. The 
sepals and petals are about two inches long and of a deep warm brown, 
somewhat approaching mahogany in shade. The tube and throat of the 
lip are very deep yellow, the front lobe and apex of the side-lobes rich 
maroon-purple, and the curved spur, which measures three-quarters of an 
inch long, deep yellow. Many of the plants are rather dwarfer than ordinary 
P. bicolor, Lindl., and the flowers, especially the lip, deeper in colour, yet I 
believe it is only a local variety of it with richly coloured flowers. Some 
forms are nearly as light as in plate 23 of Lindley’s Sertuwm Orchidacearum, 
while others are darker, and to these perhaps the varietal name will best 
apply. Its dwarfer habit and richly coloured flowers render it a very desir- 
able addition to the group. 
STANHOPEA CALCEOLUS. 
Several of the species discovered by Warscewicz seem to have been lost 
sight of, and the present one among the number. It was described by 
Reichenbach over thirty years ago, as a native of Central America, since 
which time nothing further seems to have been recorded about it. It is 
interesting to note that it has now reappeared in the establishment of 
Messrs. Hugh. Low and Co., of Clapton—at least their plant agrees with 
the original description, beyond which, alas! there is nothing to aid one in 
its identification. It forms one of the three known species of the section 
Stanhopeastrum, which is characterised by having the lip entire and simply 
saccate, the other two being S. ecornuta, Lindl., and S. pulla, Rchb.f. The 
present species enjoys with S. pulla the distinction of having the smallest 
flowers in the genus, being scarcely two and a quarter inches across their 
broadest diameter. They are deep buff yellow, except the front part of the 
lip, which is paler. The sepals are concave, and the petals sharply reflexed 
about the middle. The lip is pandurate, and much like a boot rather 
flattened at the toe, the hind part being saccate. The column is eight lines 
long, and nearly straight. The newly-opened flowers are very fragrant, 
with an odour something like water-melon. . Rk. 
