Plate 469. 



STANHOPEA TRICORNIS. 



This species was imported from Ecuador in April, 1877, by Messrs. Low and Co., 

 through their collector, Mr. T. C. Lehmann. We are indebted to Messrs. James Veitch 

 and Sons, Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, for the opportunity of figuring the same. This 

 " very rare and very extraordinary plant " was once in the Garden of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society at Chiswick. Professor Reichenbach describes it as " a delicate, 

 pallid, small Stanhopea plant of the usual shape, with a pendant peduncle and two flowers 

 of extraordinary size when compared with the small bulbs. The flowers are quite 

 astonishing. Nobody could decide at a distance they belonged to a Stanhopea. The 

 lateral sepals are spread, the odd one is bent backwards over the ovary. The lip cannot 

 be seen, for the petals make a cover over it, leaving part only of the broadly-winged 

 column to be seen between them. The flowers are of a yellowish- white colour, becoming 

 tinted with ochre as they age. Crimson spots stand internally on the disc and base of 

 petals, and on the very base of sepals, shining through the rather pellucid hyaline tissue. 

 The horns and epichile are of a darker ochre colour, verging to light undecided orange. 

 The wings of the column are of most pallid ochre, the body green." 



Plate 470. 



CYPERUS LAXUS YARIEGATUS. 



This elegant form originated as a sport from Cyperus laxus, and represents a 

 remarkably handsome plant, and one which is sure to become a general favourite for 

 decorative purposes. In its general character it is identical with C. laxus, but differs 

 entirely from that variety in the variegation of the foliage, which is green striped with 

 white. In a young state the leaves resemble very much a well-coloured small plant of 

 Pandanus Veitchii, and in such a state of growth are most valuable for baskets or other 

 similar purposes. If grown in 48-sized pots, the foliage forms a tuft, carrying its grass- 

 like blooms well above the foliage, which are also beautifully variegated ; the plant then 

 becomes an object of great beauty. The variegation is constant, and the growth of the 

 plant very free. 



The Eoyal Horticultural and the Royal Botanic Societies awarded First-class 

 Certificates of Merit to this desirable plant during the past spring. We are indebted to 

 the General Horticultural Company (John Wills) Limited, for the subject of our illustration, 

 the plant being now in course of distribution. 



