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important points, especially the curvature of the peduncle. 
The Beatonias, whether considered as a section or a distinct 
genus, have much smaller flowers, in all tending to purple, 
and they will not breed with Tigridia as far as tried. — W. H. 
116. STANHOPEA guttulata. 
S. guttulata ; sepalo supremo oblongo concavo apice abrupte recurvo, labelli 
hypochilio angusto a latere compresso apice carnoso dente valido inflexo, 
epicliilii cornubus lateralibus teretibus apiculatis lobo intermedio ovato 
indiviso brevioribus, columna apice tantum abrupte alata. 
Of this very singular and most distinct species I have only 
seen a single flower, from the collection of J. H. Wanklyn, 
Esq. of Crumpsell House, and I am unacquainted with its 
history. The flower was rather small for the genus, of a clear 
very pale nankin colour, closely covered all over with small 
crimson and brown spots and dots, even up to the tip of the 
labellum. It is to be hoped that further information con- 
cerning it will soon be gained. It is a plant of the greatest 
interest. 
117. CYCNOCPIES ventricosiim, and 
CYCNOCHES Egertonianum. 
“Strange things,” says Mr. Bateman, in his magnificent 
work on Orchidacese, now alas concluded — “and no less 
strange than true — have already been recorded of Orchida- 
ceous plants, but the case which is represented in the accom- 
panying plate casts into the shade all former frolics of this 
Protean tribe. The facts are briefly as follow. 
“ Among Mr. Skinner’s earliest Guatemala collections, 
attention was particularly directed to the specimens of a plant 
which to the habit of a Cycnoches joined the long pendulous 
stems of a Gong ora, and for the possession of which, in a 
living state, no small anxiety was entertained. Some plants 
were speedily transmitted by Mr. Skinner, but these, on flow- 
ering, proved to be merely the old C. ventricosum. A mistake 
was of course suspected, and Mr. Skinner being again applied 
to, sent over a fresh supply of plants, for the authenticity of 
which he vouched ; but these were scarcely settled in the 
stove, when flowers of C. ventricosum were again produced. 
Mr. Skinner being importuned for the third time, and being 
