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STANHOPEA MACULOSA. 



externally, and extending to the extremity of the lip ; the anterior portion (epichilium) oblong, 

 rounded at the base, obtusely 8-toothed, and somewhat refiexed at the apex. Column the length 

 of the lip, both of which are minutely and delicately spotted. Pollen-masses and gland like 

 those of the other species. 



This handsome species of Stanhopea is in the collection of George Barker, Esq., 

 of Springfield, by whom it was imported. It resembles, in several points, S. tigrina, 

 figured by Mr. Bateman in his splendid " Orchid. Mex. et Guatem." and by 

 Dr. Lindley, in the Botanical Register. It differs, however, from that species in 

 the much smaller size of the flowers, in its general markings, in the warty (not 

 lamellated) inner-surface of the hgpochilium, and, judging from the plates above- 

 mentioned, in the broader apex and more obtuse teeth of the epichilium. The 

 inner surface of the hypochilium, although not broken up into lamella, has the 

 warts arranged in a radiated manner, in which respect it may be said to approach 

 S. tigrina ; this radiated structure, however, is not peculiar to these species, it being 

 equally evident in S. insignis. 



Fig. 1, interior view of hypochilium ; 2, epichilium, terminating in three teeth. 



